Taiwan-based niche-type CCL maker Ventec International has reported its net profit surged 53.2% from a year earlier to NT$107 million (US$3.58 million) in the first quarter of 2020...

China's imports of ICs are set to drop below US$300 billion in value this year, due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic impacting both supply and demand, according to Wei Shaojun,...

Delivery lead time for notebook-related chips including power management ICs, Type-C chips and other peripheral ICs have been extended by 2-3 months, due mainly to tight 8-inch foundry...

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has seen orders increasing for educational notebooks and tablets from emerging markets in Latin America and Africa since March, with shipments scheduled...

Car sales in major markets have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and the negative impact is expected to extend to upstream demand for 6- and 8-inch silicon wafers used to...

LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics and vertically-integrated LED firm Opto Tech are fully utilizing production capacities for infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV)...

Taiwan's flexible PCB makers in the supply chain of Apple devices have seen demand turn strong in the second quarter of 2020 to support robust sales of second-generation iPhone SE,...

IDMs in Europe, the US and Japan are keenly moving to farm out their operations, particularly backend IC testing, to Taiwan OSAT firms, thanks to their plants in the regions and in...

Most Taiwan's backend specialists remain uncertain about their business prospects for the third quarter of the year, as whether demand for devices enabling remote working and learning...

Global shipments of OEM TVs by the world's top-14 OEM makers plunged 28% on year to 13.8 million units in the first quarter of 2020, as the production, shipments and sales of the...

Industrial PC maker Advantech expects to post revenue growth of 20-25% sequentially in the second quarter of 2020, thanks to recovery in labor return rates and factory utilization...

Global notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2020 dropped 27.6% on quarter and 10.9% on year. The yearly decline was the worst for the Taiwan's notebook industry since first-quarter...

Shipments of LCD TVs by Taiwan-based makers fell 45.2% sequentially to 4.65 million units in the first quarter of 2020, affected mainly by seasonality and the outbreak of the coronavirus...

Backend house ChipMOS Technologies expects stable growth in sales generated from the memory sector in the second quarter, while sales of its display driver IC segment will register...

Semiconductor-use mask and wafer handling solution provider Gudeng Precision Industrial has indicated that business operation in second-quarter 2020 is considerably healthy but order...