Samsung Austin Semiconductor has announced plans to invest more than US$1 billion by the first half of 2017 to enhance its current system LSI production and meet growing demand for...

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$88.3 billion for the third quarter of 2016, marking the industry's highest-ever...

IC design house FocalTech Systems has reported pre-tax profits of NT$104 million (US$3.3 million) for the third quarter of 2016, the highest in four quarters.

Networking IC design company Realtek Semiconductor has reported that its pre-tax profits decreased 26.8% on quarter to NT$813 million (US$25.77 million) in the third quarter of 2016...

LCD driver IC packaging service provider Chipbond Technology has reported net profits of NT$567 million (US$17.98 million) for the third quarter of 2016, increasing 43.5% from the...

MediaTek expects its revenues to fall up to 15% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2016 with gross margin raning from 33.5% to 36.5%.

NAND flash device controller supplier Silicon Motion Technology saw revenues generated from its embedded storage products increase over 15% sequentially to account for about 80% of...

Taiwan's ITRI has teamed up with Japan-based Seria Engineering to develop a new process technology for the manufacture of PCBs, which has been showcased at the TPCA (Taiwan Printed...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reported net profits of NT$5.51 billion (US$173.9 million) for the third quarter of 2016, up 27% sequentially but down 14% on year. EPS...

Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors have announced a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by the boards of both companies, under which Qualcomm will acquire NXP. Pursuant to the...

CIS module maker Asia Tech Image has reported net profits of NT$113 million (US$3.579 million) for the third quarter of 2016, increasing 51% from a quarter earlier. EPS for the quarter...

United Microelectronics (UMC) is expected to move its 14nm FinFET process to volume production in the second quarter of 2017, with Bitcoin mining company BitFury being the first customer,...

Phison Electronics, which supplies controller solutions for memory devices, has reported pre-tax profits of NT$1.544 billion (US$48.9 million) for the third quarter of 2016, up 26.88%...

Alchip Technologies, a Taiwan-based provider of ASIC/SoC design services, has signed an MoU with the Hefei city government of China's Anhui province to set up a subsidiary locally.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reportedly obtained orders for fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP) from Qualcomm, MediaTek and HiSilicon with volume production set...