Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has purchased engineering and facility equipment from Applied Materials, Fu Tsu Construction and Tokyo Electron for a total of about...

Taiwan-based fingerprint sensor suppliers have started shipping products to China- and Korea-based smartphone vendors, according to sources at Taiwan-based foundries.

The planned acquisition of ILI Technology (Ilitek) by a unit of MediaTek has been given antitrust clearance by China's Ministry of Commerce, according to the fabless firm specializing...

Phison Electronics' board of directors has approved the issuing of up to 20 million new shares through private placement with an aim to form new cooperation or strategic alliances...

Sunplus Technology, a Taiwan-based IC design house specializing in multimedia and PC peripheral chips, has reported March consolidated revenues surged 78.3% sequentially to NT$739...

IC distributors WPG Holdings and WT Microelectronics have reported sequential increases of 45.2% and 40.5%, respectively, in consolidated revenues for March 2016.

MediaTek saw its March consolidated revenues grow 61% on month and 4.6% on year to NT$21.337 billion (US$657.61 million), the highest level in five months.

Semiconductor materials distributor Topco Scientific has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.81 billion (US$55.9 million) for March 2016, up 10.3% on month and 7.4% on year.

PCB makers Chin-Poon Industrial and Tripod Technology have both reported on-year revenue increases of 10% and 3%, respectively, for March 2016.

Touchscreen controller IC specialist Elan Microelectronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$514 million (US$15.8 million) for March 2016, up 45.6% on month but down 7.5% on...

Networking IC design company Realtek Semiconductor saw its March revenues climb to a record high of NT$3.44 billion (US$106.1 million).

Specialty memory specialist Winbond Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$3.43 billion (US$105.6 million) for March 2016, up 6.9% sequentially and 4.9% on year.

HDI PCB specialist Compeq Manufacturing has reported March revenues slid 0.2% from a year earlier to NT$3.05 billion (US$94 million). Revenues totaled NT$9.39 billion for the first...

Wang Dongsheng, chairman for China-based TFT-LCD panel maker BOE Technology, has proposed a survival law for the panel industry, that is, with prices remaining unchanged, makers should...

LED driver IC vendor Macroblock, which had poor results in 2015, has seen demand pick up since 2016 and has expressed optimism about its business outlook for the year.