The US Clean Network program has prompted China-based Internet service providers to mull switching from Alibaba's Aliyun cloud computing platform to non-Chinese operators such as...

Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers, with many of them contracting SMIC to manufacture their chips supplied to the Chinese market, are mulling shifting orders away from the China-based...

Spot market prices for DRAM memory have rallied 10-15% so far in September 2020, according to sources at memory module houses. Huawei's aggressive chip purchases prior to new US sanctions...

Taiwan-based CCL makers showed mixed August results, with Elite Material (EMC) posting record-high revenues and fellow companies Iteq, Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) and Ventec Electronics...

A fire broke out at Unimicron Technology's factory in Kunshan, China on September 7, with details of the losses still being evaluated and cause of the fire under police investigation,...

China's enforcement of new safety regulations on trucks and truck-tractors in September 2020 is likely to bring business opportunities for Taiwan-based makers of components and modules...

The potential blacklisting of SMIC, China's largest pure-play foundry, by the US government may shake up the second-tier pure-play foundry market segment.

Materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are increasingly needed by IC designers, wafer foundries and backend houses to support R&D projects...

China is poised to step up developing third-generation semiconductors including SiC and GaN materials for wide-ranging applications including new 5G communications, energy vehicles...

Samsung Electronics and some others have held nearly four months of DRAM and NAND flash inventories on average, due to a slowdown in orders for datacenter applications and overall...

China-based lithium battery makers have seen fast increasing domestic demand due to the Chinese government promoting battery swap for electric vehicles (EVs) and construction of 5G...

Android-based handset makers are holding back their demand for UFS (universal flash storage) chips for production of high-end smartphone models as the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic...

China is aggressively building its own SiC components supply chain for EV and other emerging applications, and as many as 14 makers are engaged in the development and production of...

China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) has moved closer to achieving its goal of becoming the world's top TV panel maker in 2023 after parent company TCL signed a deal to acquire...

China's IC design industry is forecast to generate more than CNY350 billion (US$51.1 billion) in sales in 2020, representing a CAGR of 22% from 2016 to 2020 - the timeframe of the...