TSMC will see its 7nm process utilization rate climb substantially in the second half of 2019, driven by a seasonal pick-up in demand for smartphones, as well as chip demand for HPC,...

Renesas is reportedly moving toward a fab-lite business model by temporarily shutting down some frontend and backend fabs, with its Taiwan-based OSAT partners including ASE, Ardentec,...

Samsung Electronics increased its lead as the No. 1 semiconductor vendor due to the booming DRAM market in 2018, according to Gartner. However, the memory chip giant is likely to...

MediaTek is expected to post revenues of between NT$56 billion (US$1.82 billion) and NT$61 million in the second quarter of 2019, representing a 7-14% sequential increase, with gross...

Taiwanese semiconductor, communication and electronics firms have significantly increased their investments in Taiwan since the China-US trade war kicked off in 2018, but shortages...

IC foundries have seen their 8-inch fab utilization rates pick up recently, driven by a pull-in of orders for IoT and automotive electronics applications, according to sources at...

Automated optical inspection (AOI) specialist Machvision, officially listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) on April 2, will kick off a new wave of business transformations in...

Huawei's IC design subsidiary HiSilicon may unseat Taiwan's MediaTek as the largest IC design house in Asia in 2019, as the China-based company is set to roll out diverse new chipset...

POS (point of sale/service) device maker Posiflex Technology, in view of growing demand in line with digital transformation, has strengthened development of O2O and IoT infrastructure-based...

The government in Taiwan has made it a major policy to help domestic firms step up R&D on innovative IoT applications and work out IoT-based smart city, smart mobility and smart...

TSMC has seen a significant pickup in foundry demand for AI, IoT and 5G chips from China's IC design sector and global tech firms seeking to develop chips on their own, according...

Taiwan startup Thingnario, a data-driven and intelligent industrial solution provider, is teaming up with domestic machinery makers to integrate industrial domain know-how and digitalize...

Flexible PCB maker Flexium Interconnect has kicked off construction of a new plant in Kaoshiung, southern Taiwan, which will serve as the firm's 5G smart communication business operating...

Though US-China trade tensions seem to be easing, Taiwan ODMs are still moving ahead with their production deployments in Southeast Asia as they are requested by brand vendors to...

Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies will come up with the sixth-generation cyber security solutions highlighting its Nano security strategy to address increasingly serious...