GaN Systems has announced a strategic partnership with Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a subsidiary of ASE Technology, to co-develop GaN power modules for the electric vehicle...

Samsung Electronics has announced plans to invest an estimated US$17 billion in the establishment of a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor, Texas. The fab will be dedicated...

Samsung Electronics has disclosed plans to set up an advanced wafer fab in Texas. The new fab that will be equipped with advanced process manufacturing equipment and facilities will...

Shortage of foundry supply is sending major smartphone application processors vendors booking 12-inch fab capacity in advance to facilitate shipments of their power...

Samsung Display (SDC) is poised to expand production capacity for TV-use QD-OLED panels or IT-use OLED panels in South Korea, according to local media.

TV-related IC demand is expected to pick up as early as the first quarter of 2022 following a slowdown in TV market sales seen since the third quarter of 2021, according to sources...

Quartz component supplier Siward Crystal Technology expects the overall industry supply to remain tight in the first half of 2022, as suppliers' capacity expansion pace fails to catch...

Smartphone application processor vendors including Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek have moved to reserve the available 12-inch BCD (bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) process capacity at foundries for...

Qualcomm announced plans to launch its next-gen Arm-based SoC, "designed to set the performance benchmark for Windows PCs."

October billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment grew by a slight 0.6% sequentially to US$3.74 billion, according to SEMI.

Phison Electronics is looking to scale up its R&D team to 2,500-2,700 engineers in 2022, according to the Taiwan-based flash device controller specialist.

MediaTek has validated Micron Technology's low-power double data rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM for MediaTek's new Dimensity 9000 flagship chipset for 5G smartphones, according to Micron.

MediaTek with its recently-introduced flagship SoC is eyeing a presence in the non-iPhone flagship 5G smartphone chip market.

MediaTek has unveiled its new Pentonic smart TV SoC family with the introduction of the 2000 series, which will power next generation flagship 8K TVs. The new SoC series is the world's...

8-inch wafer foundries are experiencing challenges in boosting 8-inch wafer capacity. Now, most of the foundries still...