Revenues of the global NAND flash industry dropped 3% sequentially to US$15.74 billion in the first quarter of 2018, when a seasonal slowdown in demand dragged down the memory prices,...
Lagging behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the development of fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) technology, Taiwan's main OSAT (outsourced semiconductor...
Major China-based OSAT companies including Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology are all gearing up to compete...
IC substrate supplier Kinsus Interconnect Technology's net profits fell 78% on year to NT$491 million (US$16.8 million) in 2017. EPS for the year came to NT$1.10, down from NT$5.01...
Notebook hinge maker Sinher Technology is installing two more batch furnaces to expand in-house MIM (metal injection molding) production capacity to meet growing demand, bringing...
Sales in the global DRAM market surged 16.2% sequentially to a record US$19.18 billion in the third quarter of 2017, when contract prices of various DRAM products rose by about 5%...
Globalfoundries will first use EUV lithography technology in its 7nm FinFET node, and has started to work with AMD in the process development, said company CTO Gary Patton at a recent...
China-based SJ Semiconductor has started the qualification of 10nm ultra-high density wafer bumping for Qualcomm, according to the companies. This represents SJSemi's further improvement...
AMD's new Radeon RX Vega series graphics cards, which have become available since August 15, are currently seeing tight supply in the retail channel reportedly due to an insufficient...
Sales in the global DRAM market surged 16.9% sequentially to US$16.51 billion in the second quarter of 2017, when PC DRAM contract prices rose over 10%, according to DRAMeXchange...
Intel is confident about chips made on its 14nm process, but is lagging behind competitors on the 10nm node. Its 10nm Cannonlake processors will not become available until the second...
Commenting on rumors that the Apple Watch has a poor yield rate, and that Apple is considering outsourcing related orders to other manufacturers and has even asked employees of Foxconn...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has seen the yield rate of its 28nm production improve recently, with the process to begin generating revenues for the foundry house soon,...
Several wearable devices such as Apple's iWatch and Qualcomm's Toq are reportedly seeing less than 50% yield rates due to difficulties applying surface treatments on their metal injection...
There is talk in the Taiwan supply chain that Apple's upcoming iWatch is reportedly suffering from low-yield-rate problems, with the rumors being that the upstream supply chain is...
