Winbond Electronics has been stepping up its deployment in the high-density NOR flash field, gearing up for a boom in demand for 5G related applications, according to company president...

Samsung Electronics will unveil its next-generation 5G flagship smartphones - likely the Galaxy Note 20 5G series products along with other devices such as the Galaxy Watch 3 - during...

Samsung Electronics appears to have become cautious about placing component orders for its upcoming Galaxy Note 20 5G lineup, showing concerns about the prospects of the global smartphone...

Chinese makers of passive components have been keen on capacity expansions for high-end MLCC capacitors, providing lucrative business opportunities for Taiwan's equipment makers,...

Niche-type CCL provider Ventec International, after seeing its revenues for June and first-half 2020 revenues fall on year, expects a gradual rebound to normal in the second half...

Taiwan's IC testing houses Ardentec, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics are expected to see their production lines run at high capacity in the third quarter...

MediaTek has decided to push back the launch of its mmWave 5G SoC lineup to 2021, with mass production unlikely to take place until the second half of next year, according to industry...

Taiwan-based diode maker Eris Technology is expected to gain more business opportunities from display, 5G and ESD (electrostatic discharge) applications in the second half of 2020...

Soitec has announced a business agreement with Qualcomm Technologies on the supply of piezoelectric-on-insulator (POI) engineered substrates for 4G and 5G RF filters. Soitec's piezoelectric-on-insulator...

Taiwan's major CCL makers including Elite Material (EMC), Iteq and Taiwan Union Technology are all moving to expand their capacity for high-frequency, high-speed CCL materials to...

Taiwan-based optical component suppliers have seen shipments for 5G base station and other applications start gaining momentum thanks to an acceleration of 5G infrastructure construction...

IC analysis and certification lab Material Analysis Technology (MA-tek) saw its revenue climb 20.2% from a year earlier to NT$1.42 billion (US$48.3 million) in the first half of 2020,...

Memory module maker Adata Technology saw revenue generated from its SSD sales climb nearly 70% on year to NT$966 million (US$32.8 million) in June 2020.

Taiwan's first-tier IC design houses, such as MediaTek, have demanded more capacity support from their foundry partners recently, according to industry sources.

The high-speed transmission of 5G will allow games to be played like streaming media and players will no longer need to wait for the contents to be fully downloaded, according to...