Taiwanese foundry houses' promises to devote more capacity to making automotive chips have raised concern among smaller IC designers. With the foundry capacity unlikely to see major...

LCD panel prices are expected to continue rising during the first half of 2021, as shortages of components and raw materials, including driver ICs, polarizers and glass substrates,...

Taiwan-based MCU specialists, including Holtek Semiconductor, are expected to initiate price increases to reflect rising manufacturing costs, according to industry sources.

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors (AP) to China, including those for handset exports, will stay flat sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, according to Digitimes...

MediaTek has announced its new M80 5G modem which combines mmWave and sub-6GHz technologies onto a single chip.

With major Taiwan-based foundries expressing their supply commitments to their automotive customers, fabless chipmakers particularly second-tier players have expressed concerns about...

Falling NAND flash prices will be driving substantially the adoption of SSDs in notebooks this year, which Micron Technology executive VP and chief business officer Sumit Sadana also...

IC components prices are rising as a result of shortages amid tight foundry capacity, heaping pressure on notebook makers. ODMs are mulling hiking notebook...

Taiwan-based notebook ODMs plan to raise their quotes to reflect rising component prices that have been heaping pressure on their production costs, according to industry sources.

Taiwan's shipments of small- to medium-size LCD panels are expected to fall 9.5% sequentially but up 3.9% on year to 174 million units in the first quarter of 2021, Digitimes Research...

DDR3 prices are expected to rise 40-50% in 2021, according to industry sources who estimated previously a slower 30% increase.

Pure-play foundry TSMC is aggressively looking for growth beyond demand from Apple, which is currently its biggest client, according to industry sources.

Chip vendors have been striving to obtain capacity support from Taiwan-based foundry houses, which nevertheless have been unable to meet all demand due to tight capacity. The foundries...

LCD panel maker AUO will manage to maintain full capacity at its facilities in Taiwan and China during Lunar New Year to meet robust demand from clients, according to company chairman...

Taiwan's wafer foundry houses are under increasing pressure to allocate more capacity for automotive chips, which in turn could undermine shipments of Taiwan-based IC suppliers in...