Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will see its 12-inch wafer fab in Nanjing, China start volume production in May 2018, more than one quarter ahead of its original...

China's LED lighting sector recorded total export value of US$1.379 billion in October 2017, slipping 29% sequentially due to off-season effects, according to Shenzhen Gaogong Industry...

The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics has announced it will invest CNY33.3 billion (US$5.03 billion) to set up an LED production base in...

LED packaging service provider Harvatek will invest CNY7.5 million (US$1.13 million) to take a 75% stake in an existing factory in Guangzhou, southern China, mainly for production...

The gap between quotes by China-based makers for solar mono-Si and poly-Si wafers shrank from over US$0.15 in October 2017 to US$0.14-0.15 in early November and further to US$0.10...

Following three years of harsh operations,Taiwan-based vacuum sputtering specialist Pragon Technologies is staging a comeback with significant momentum, as it has tapped into the...

With global shipments of electric cars seen to grow sharply in 2018, the supply of vital components, particularly high-voltage MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)...

The China government has been actively promoting the development of LPWAN (low-power wide area network)-based IoT market and set NB-IoT as its standard technology, according to Digitimes...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has announced it has entered into an agreement with investors, including Dtang and the China IC Fund, for the placing...

After having experienced sluggish sales for more than one year, the China optical communication market is gradually gaining growth momentum, promoting customers there to place short...

China-based NOR flash supplier GigaDevice Semiconductor has announced subscribing to HK$532.5 million (US$68.43 million) worth of new shares issued by Semiconductor Manufacturing...

The production value of the AI (artificial intelligence) industry in China is expected to increase to CNY360 billion (US$54.46 billion) in 2017 from CNY300 billion recorded in 2016,...

Vendors moved up smartphone AP shipments ahead of China's National Day Golden Week holiday, buoying third-quarter 2017 shipments to come to 172 million units, up 24.3% on quarter,...

A breakthrough in MCCE (metal-catalyzed chemical etching) technology used in the production of diamond wire (DW)-sliced poly-Si wafers has enhanced significantly the competitiveness...

China-based Roborock, the maker of both Xiaomi Technology's Mi- and Roborock-branded robot vacuum cleaners, is ramping up its capacity by adding more molds into production lines,...