The lingering US-China trade tensions are set to further encourage Huawei and other China smartphone vendors to reduce their dependence on their US chip suppliers, which will continue...

Taiwan-based IC substrates makers including Unimicron and Na Ya PCB are expected to see their capacities, especially those for ABF substrates, fully booked till fourth-quarter 2020,...

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) with its 14nm FinFET process manufacturing has obtained orders from HiSilicon, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based backend houses including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) will see orders for HiSilicon's 5nm chips for 5G base stations ramp up substantially in the third quarter of 2020...

Handset PCB specialists' order visibility has extended only to May, and are still unsure about their overall sales results for second-quarter 2020 as orders for June are yet to be...

The coronavirus pandemic is hitting the hard the smartphone market, with components suppliers disclosing that orders from Huawei...

Shipments of 5G-enabled smartphone models from Huawei and Samsung Electronics reportedly have met with headwinds, with supply chain sources indicating that component orders for these...

MediaTek and Samsung Electronics are both vying for mid-range and entry-level 5G smartphone chips from Huawei, which intends to further reduce its dependence on Qualcomm this year,...

Samsung Foundry, the foundry operations of Samsung Electronics, has set its goal of moving its advanced 3nm process technology to volume production as early as 2021. But the Korean...

TSMC is on track to move 5nm process technology to volume production in second-quarter 2020 as scheduled, and continues to see the process capacity fully booked despite recent speculation...

Huawei has unveiled its new P40 flagship family products as part of its efforts to rekindle its dwindling smartphone sales affected by the coronavirus outbreak, but it remains to...

Taiwanese PCB makers, despite the coronavirus pandemic's impacts, still expect 5G handset demand to pick up later this year, and remain reluctant to move production out of China in...

Shipments from ODM and IDH companies grew by 4% annually in 2019 against the declining trend in the overall smartphone market, according to Counterpoint Research. This was a result...

Backend service firms have seen stable orders for processing chips for TVs, set-top boxes (STB), game consoles, cloud servers, and IP network cameras, while demand for packaging smartphone...

China is not just accelerating the resumption of manufacturing to prevent its economy from being stalled further by the coronavirus pandemic; it is also keen to boost local consump...