The EMEA smartphone market reached 83.7 million units in the first quarter of 2019, a 3.3% drop on the same quarter last year, confirming recent trends of a slowing market, according...

HiSilicon, Huawei's chip design subsidiary, will likely fail to beat MediaTek and become the largest Asia-based fabless chipmaker in 2019 as its shipment growth will be affected negatively...

Chip-on-film (COF) substrate suppliers JMC Electronics expects to post flat growth or a slight decrease sequentially in third-quarter revenues, due to a cutback in orders in the wake...

Silicon wafer demand has stayed robust from China's chipmaking industry in line with the country's ongoing efforts to increase self-sufficiency in semiconductors, according to sources...

With Huawei already stocking up on crucial components, the US Commerce Department's ban will not stop Huawei from providing its products and services in the short term. However, the...

The US trade ban may have halted Huawei's expansions overseas, but has prompted China to accelerate the pace of 5G deplopyments domestically. Huawei reportedly is redesigning its...

Copper-clad laminate (CCL) specialist Iteq is striving to develop its presence in the high-speed CCL market segment, while expressing optimism about demand for 5G base station equipment,...

Huawei may slow slightly down its pace of pulling in shipments of PCBs and related materials for 5G base stations in the short term as the company is redesigning circuit layouts to...

A new supply chain for China IT firms may gradually take shape in Asia in the future as they are seeking to wean themselves off US suppliers of crucial components and facilitate their...

Taiwan IC designers have turned conservative about their revenue performances for the second half of 2019 as uncertain fallouts of the US-China trade war and trade sanctions against...

China semiconductor firms including Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) and Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) are still proceeding with their capacity expansion plans...

Huawei has recently asked its notebook supply chain partners to suspend deliveries, and has also halted all its new notebook projects, according to sources from the related upstream...

China's Shennan Circuit has managed to generate profits from its IC substrate business, and has expanded its IC substrate offerings to include those for handset-use application processors...

DRAMeXchange expects larger-than-expected falls in DRAM ASPs in the third and fourth quarters of 2019, citing the impact of trade disputes between the US and China.

Canalys has revised downward its smartphone shipment forecast this year to 1.35 billion units, a 3.1% decrease on year. The revision is to reflect "an uncertain future" resulted from...