The global smartphone application processor (AP) market grew 23% to US$30.8 billion in 2021, according to Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm maintained its smartphone AP leadership with...

China-based pure-play foundry SMIC has said that production at its manufacturing site in Shanghai, where 8- and 12-inch fabrication lines are operated, remains normal and has not...

TSMC is expected to reiterate its sales growth outlook for 2022 of 25-29% while maintaining its capex target this year of US$40-44 billion at its upcoming investor conference call...

Japan is under great pressure to find solutions to revive its semiconductor industry, as the ongoing chip shortages and high semiconductor supply chain disruption risks remain major...

It may be hard for TSMC to generate profits from its new advanced wafer fab in Arizona when the facility becomes operational, if the US government fails to carry out its commitment...

Concerns have been raised about the impact of COVID lockdowns in China on the IC and IT industry supply chains this year.

STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific has notified its distributors about price increases for all its product lines in the second quarter of 2022, which may encourage other automotive and...

China has started locking down Shanghai in two phases for mass Covid-19 testing starting today (March 28) amid a resurgence of coronavirus infections. TSMC and other Taiwan-based...

TSMC plans to start operating its first zero-waste manufacturing center in Taichung, central Taiwan in 2023, according to Lora Ho, company SVP of Europe & Asia Sales.

VisEra Technologies, which specializes in wafer-level CMOS image sensor devices including color filters (CF) and microlens (ML) and has expanded its offerings to include wafer-level...

TSMC, Samsung Electronics, China's SMIC and other foundries are all poised to carry out their aggressive capacity expansion plans, despite heightened macroeconomic uncertainty.

Having hired R&D talent from Huawei's HiSilicon, China's leading OSAT Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET) has been developing its flip-chip(FC) packaging, 2.5D IC,...

Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...

Nvidia has announced its next-generation accelerated computing platform with Hopper architecture, dubbed H100 GPU, which is built using TSMC's 4nm (N4) process customized for the...

TSMC is expected to scale up its 5nm chip shipments to 150,000 wafers monthly in the third quarter of 2022 from about 120,000 units at present, according to sources at semiconductor...