Taiwan-based pure-play foundries intend to hold prices flat in the second half of 2022, despite cutbacks in orders for display driver ICs and other chips for use in consumer electronics...

Following the subsidies to TSMC's 300mm fab in Kumamoto and TSMC's 3DIC R&D center in Ibaraki, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has lately announced plans...

Taiwan's OSATs may not move to set up plants in the US though the US Congress has approved the Chips and Science Act 2022, and instead will carry out capacity expansions at their...

With the US tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking equipment, Taiwan-based fab tool suppliers engaged in the supply chain of SMIC and other China-based chipmakers...

US legislators have passed the US$52 billion Chips Act. However, some commentators have claimed what the US is doing is perhaps too little, too late.

With the US Congress passing the Chips and Science Act of 2022 on July 28, awaiting the US president Joe Biden to sign it into law, the global chips industry is far from having a...

Apple devices successfully weathering headwinds hitting the handset and PC markets are significantly adding growth momentum to the vendor's close foundry partner TSMC, according to...

TSMC has mastered the structural advantage, but can it just sit back? DIGITIMES recently collaborated with National Taiwan University's (NTU) leadership program to conduct a series...

Japan's top automotive components supplier Denso is keen to develop and produce automotive power chips on its own, and has just unveiled a new power semiconductor device for electrical...

TSMC held recently a topping-out ceremony for a new 5nm fab in the US state of Arizona, according to the pure-play foundry.

The supply of automotive and industrial chips remains tight, while consumer chip inventories continue piling up throughout the supply chain, according to industry sources.

MediaTek has newly clinched a strategic cooperation deal with Intel, sparking speculation over whether the deal will affect its partnership with TSMC or will give it more bargaining...

TSMC's had 24.9% growth in sales in 2021 and it is estimated that it may be close to 30% in 2022. TSMC chairman Mark Liu has said the foundry has a structural advantage. I don't know...

Many foundry houses and IDMs are mulling scaling back or postponing their capacity expansions amid sharply weakening chip demand for consumer applications, except for TSMC, which...

At this stage, it is clear that China wants the Pacific Ocean to be big enough to accommodate the two powers of China and the US, and to gain more time and space in order to bring...