TSMC and Samsung Electronics are set to enter a race for 3nm chip production as they both plan to start commercial production of the most advanced available process node in the second...

TSMC is expected to kick off commercial production of chips built using more-advanced 3nm process technology in the fourth quarter of 2022, with the initial capacity to be equally...

Unsatisfactory manufacturing yield rates for Samsung's 4nm process technology are prompting Qualcomm to diversify its foundry sources for high-end Snapdragon SoCs, industry sources...

Taiwan's leading backend house ASE Technology and its affiliate Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have obtained major orders for processing Qualcomm's just-unveiled flagship...

Samsung Electronics will reportedly increase the production of its Exynos chipsets for Galaxy smartphones to raise the proportion of its in-house processors in Galaxy devices and...

MediaTek with its recently-introduced flagship SoC is eyeing a presence in the non-iPhone flagship 5G smartphone chip market.

Apple is expected to take a slower approach to moving its iPhone chips to more advanced manufacturing nodes. The vendor is likely to adopt TSMC 4nm process for its next-generation...

Flagship smartphones slated for launch next year will be mostly powered by 4nm SoC chips, suggesting that the real competition between Apple, MeidaTek and Qualcomm will be in the...

Apple may use TSMC's 4nm process technology for its next-generation iPhone processors, according to sources at backend houses.

Synopsys has announced a collaboration with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of Synopsys DesignWare Interface and Foundation IP on the TSMC N4P process. The collaboration enables...

About 258 million smartphone application processors were shipped to China-based handset vendors in the third quarter of 2021, up 17.9% sequentially, but the corresponding shipments...

MediaTek will enter volume shipments of its new-generation 5G modem based on the latest 3GPP 5G R16 standard in 2022, gearing up for a boom in demand for flagship 5G smartphones,...

Samsung Electronics has outlined plans to move its 3nm GAA process to volume production in the first half of 2022, which could allow the South Korea-based foundry to beat TSMC in...

Testing houses such as Sigurd Microelectronics, and IC test interface solution providers including Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), are poised to benefit more from mounting penetrations...

Speculation has emerged in the chipmaking market that cutbacks in 5nm and 7nm chip orders placed by Apple and MediaTek could result in TSMC missing its revenue target for 2021 of...