Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments climbed to a record-high 3.084 billion square inches in the first quarter of 2018, according to SEMI. The shipments represented increases of...
Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers has reported net profits of NT$2.78 billion (US$93.2 million) on revenues of NT$13.91 billion for the first quarter of 2018, with both results hitting...
Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers has struck a deal with a provincial government in South Korea for expansion of its local plant in Cheonan, South Chungcheong, according to a report...
IC foundries, and PC and handset manufacturers continue to encounter rising costs of components and materials, and will see their gross margins come under downward pressure in 2018,...
Formosa Sumco Technology (FST), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of 8- and 12-inch semiconductor silicon wafers, saw its net profit hit a 10-year high of NT$2.24 billion (US$76.8 million)...
Rumors have claimed China's Big Fund is looking to invest in Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) in order to secure wafer supply, but sources close to the semiconductor...
Silicon wafers will continue to experience tight supply in 2018, driven by robust demand from IC foundries. Taiwan-based GlobalWafers and Formosa Sumco Technology (FST) are both among...
Taiwan-based Lite-On Semiconductor recently raised its discrete component average selling prices (ASP) by 10-15%, according to industry sources. Demand for discrete components particularly...
Prices for upstream wafers will rise more than 30% in 2018, according to Miin Wu, chairman for Taiwan-based Macronix International, a supplier of flash memory and mask ROM chips.
Taiwan-based diode makers have raised their quotes by 7-15% to reflect increases in costs for materials such as copper and silicon epi wafer and for wafer fabrication, with prices...
Taiwan LCD driver IC designers are aggressively diversifying their product lines to counter the declining presence of domestic TFT LCD panel makers in the global market, and will...
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased 10% in 2017 when compared to 2016 area shipments, while silicon revenues grew 21% on year, according to SEMI.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will see its revenues grow 10-15% on year in 2018, mainly driven by the three major sectors of HPC (high performance computing),...
Taiwan businesses have performed aggressively in conducting mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at home and abroad over the past year, and a spate of factors such as cross-domain integrations...
