Taiwan-based IC design houses expect orders from China's smartphone industry to pick up in the second quarter of 2018, with customer orders likely to register double-digit sequential...

Korea-based Seoul Semiconductor has filed with a court in Itlay a charge against US-based electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics for selling LED products made by Taiwan-based...

The 10 largest semiconductor R&D spenders increased their collective expenditures to US$35.9 billion in 2017, an increase of 6% compared to US$34.0 billion in 2016, according...

Qualcomm has announced that Qualcomm River Holdings, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has reached an agreement with NXP Semiconductors to increase to US$127.50 per...

Huawei is expected to increase the adoption of smartphone solutions from its chipset subsidiary, HiSilicon Technologies, in 2018 which will add more pressure on Qualcomm and MediaTek,...

Touchscreen and LCD driver solution provider FocalTech Systems swung to net losses of NT$103 million (US$3.51 million) in 2017. EPS came to negative NT$0.28.

Led by mobile phones, small appliances and wearables, shipments of consumer electronics devices enabled with wireless charging rose 40% in 2017 compared to the previous year. In all,...

Taiwan's shipments of small- to medium-size LCD panels dropped by a lower-than-expected 1.1% sequentially to 314 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, as AU Optronics (AUO)...

The production value of Taiwan's IC packaging and testing industry sector is expected to increase 4-5% in 2018, according to the government-funded Industrial Economics and Knowledge...

Cleanroom and turnkey equipment supplier Acter has enjoyed strong orders for new fab constructions from China's IC manufacturing, packaging and testing, and optoelectronics sectors,...

Shipments of large-size LCD panels (9-inch and above sizes) by Taiwan-based panel makers (excluding Sharp) were better than expected in the fourth quarter of 2017, rising 0.3% on...

Taiwan-based eMemory, a developer and provider of embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) technology, has reported net profits of NT$598 million (US$20.4 million) on consolidated revenues...

Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) has signed a pact with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) to jointly carry out research projects and promote dual-degree programs,...

Shareholders of both Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have approved the companies' plan to merge under a new holding company.

Despite the global smartphone market showing slowed growth momentum in 2018, some Taiwan IC channel distribution agents including Answer Technology (ANStek) and Niching Industrial...