Worse-than-expected shortages of chips for notebooks and tablets affected Compeq Manufacturing's PCB shipments for such applications in June, sending its revenues for the month falling...

Taiwan-based IC distributors are set to experience robust sales in the third quarter of 2021, buoyed by persistent demand for MCUs, power management (PWM) ICs, RF chips and other...

The supply of DDR3 memory will stay tight prompting further price increases through the end of 2021, according to industry sources.

A nationwide lockdown in Malaysia has made disruptions to the output from local chip plants, which fulfill mainly orders for entry-level and mid-range logic ICs, and power diodes...

TSMC will soon disclose plans to build additional 28nm and 12/16nm process fabrication lines at new fabs, in addition to its Nanjing fab expansion, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based PCB maker Global Brands Manufacture (GBM) has restored part of its fab operations in Penang, Malaysia following eight days of suspension in response to COVID cluster...

Taiwan's PCB and IC substrate specialist Unimicron Technology has posted record revenues for June and first-half 2021, and is expected to perform even better in the second half of...

Notebook component suppliers have turned cautious about building inventory as the upstream supply chain is now having mixed views over order visibility for the third quarter and beyond,...

Taiwan's second-tier IC backend houses are set to embrace brisker business results for the second half of the year thanks to a significant surge in customer orders, after posting...

Taiwan-based distributors for IC fabrication and packaging materials have all seen their order visibility extended to the first quarter of 2022, bolstered by a persistent booming...

Taiwan-based analog IC vendors are poised to see their third-quarter 2021 revenues hit new highs again on the growing availability of foundry capacity support from 8-inch fabs, according...

Huawei has reportedly obtained a patent for Si IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistors) from China's authorities.

TSMC is gearing up for a bigger presence in the automotive IC foundry market segment, with its newly-developed N5A process set to be available in the third quarter of 2022, according...

Vendors of third-generation semiconductors including GaN and SiC (silicon carbide) are stepping up regional production and marketing deployments to better explore immense demand for...

Server makers have seen weaker than expected shipments because of components shortges, which they expect will worsen in second half of the year and further dampen their server...