Power inductor maker Chilisin Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.14 billion (US$38.9 million) for January 2018, up 21.7% on year and 8.5% sequentially.

China-based makers produced 1.4 billion smartphones in 2017, increasing 0.7% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

IT and consumer electronics products distributor Synnex Technology International has reported consolidated revenues of NT$34.259 billion (US$1.17 billion) for January, decreasing...

In a clear sign of recovery from a disappointing downturn just two years ago, global spending on semiconductors rose to a five-year high in 2017, spurred by a hike in the pricing...

Taiwan-based automotive diode supplier Actron Technology is looking to enhance its insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) manufacturing technology and will not rule out overseas...

Passive component firm Yageo has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.54 billion (US$120.55 million) for January 2018, up 44.8% on year and 5.7% sequentially.

Taiwan-based MCU supplier Nuvoton Technology is ready to cash in on the growing market demand for wireless charging microcontroller units (MCUs) in 2018 as it is capable of offering...

Pegatron expects the capital spending of its entire group in 2018 to be higher than the US$400-450 million spent in 2017 as the company and its subsidiaries are to ramp up their capacities...

Taiwan-based Compal Electronics, now the world's No.2 notebook ODM, will stage a comeback to the desktop PC market in 2018 as a contract manufacturer, a move seen to stir the global...

Worldwide tablet shipments totaled around 46 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, better than Digitimes Research's original forecast thanks to increasing demand from year-end...

Apple shipped 77.316 million iPhone devices in the fiscal 2018 first quarter ended December 30, 2017, up 66% on quarter but down 1% on year, according to a company announcement.

The fastest growing types of microprocessors in 2012-2017 were mobile system-on-chip (SoC) designs for smartphones and tablets, and microprocessors used in embedded-processing applications,...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) expects its IC backend business sales to register strong sequential growth in the second quarter and grow through the fourth quarter. The...

Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a subsidiary of backend service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineer (ASE), saw its net profits surge 63.1% to CNY1.31 billion (US$208.7...

Worldwide notebook shipments, not including detachable 2-in-1 devices, performed weaker than expected and arrived at only around 41.15 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017,...