Lite-On Semiconductor, a maker of discrete and analog IC components, has enjoyed robust diode demand for industrial control and server applications which will buoy the company's sales...

Global web service giants including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Alibaba are racing to conduct in-house development of chipset solutions, as part of their efforts to venture...

Taiwan-based first-tier IC-design houses MediaTek and Novatek Microelectronics are set to sustain continued revenue growths in the third quarter of 2018, powered by the release of...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$38.7 billion for the month of May 2018, an increase of 21% from the May 2017 total of US$32 billion and 3% more than last month's total...

United Microelectronics (UMC), the second-largest Taiwan-based pure-play foundry, disclosed recently plans to list its HeJian-led China operations on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE)...

It remains to be seen whether Apple will commit to buying modem chips from MediaTek for its next-generation iPhone devices despite mounting speculations that the US vendor is considering...

Synnex Corporation and Convergys have announced they have reached a definitive agreement in which Synnex would acquire Convergys and integrate it with the former's Concentrix, a wholly-owned...

Fujitsu Semiconductor and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) today announced that the Taiwan-based foundry house will acquire all of the shares of Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor...

Taiwan-based Panjit International has signed contracts with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to jointly establish pilot production lines for ITRI's IGBT smart...

The cryptocurrency mining chill has weakened demand for graphics cards, with suppliers planning to axe prices trying to clear their inventory. Sales of ASIC mining systems have also...

A total of 20 out of 45 academic applicants have been selected to join the four-year Semiconductor Moonshot Project hosted by Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), which...

HTC has signed a MoU agreement with China Mobile to join forces on a 5G program in China, according to a company announcement.

Wretch Chien, principal of AME Cloud Venture, was himself an entrepreneur when he founded a community website Wretch.cc in Taiwan. Since then his career has taken several turns, taking...

IC Insights has forecast that China-headquartered companies will spend US$11.0 billion in semiconductor industry capex in 2018, which would represent 10.6% of the expected worldwide...

Demand for TDDI (touch and display driver integration) chips is set to ramp up starting the third quarter, with Taiwan-based backend firms including Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS...