EMS provider Foxconn Electronics will set up a 6G LTPS (low-temperature poly-Si) TFT-LCD panel fab in Guiyang City, southwestern China, to mainly produce smartphone-use 5.2-, 5.5-...

Flexible PCB maker Flexium Interconnect has announced plans to repurchase as many as 20 million shares, or 7.2% of the company's outstanding shares, at between NT$60 (US$1.83) and...

The board of directors of Unimicron Technology, a manufacturer of PCBs and IC substrates, has approved plans to budget NT$5.01 billion (US$152.9 million) in capital expenditures (capex)...

At this point most consumers are not that familiar with the USB Type C specification but it has the IT industry excited, with adoption rates among makers ramping up quickly. Leading...

MediaTek's profitability has come under pressure due to falling ASPs of smartphone chips, and will face further pressure in 2016, according to industry observers.

Touchscreen controller IC specialist Elan Microelectronics has entered development of fingerprint sensors with mass shipments slated for the second quarter of 2016, according to the...

Conditions in the global semiconductor industry are set to improve from 2015 enabling a modest recovery in 2016, according to Nicky Lu, chairman and CEO of Taiwan's fabless firm Etron...

There will be 29 TFT-LCD panel factories in China by 2019, with 11 of them already operational, 10 under construction and eight being planned, according to industry sources.

PCB maker Wus Printed Circuit has announced plans to repurchase as many as 30 million shares, or 9.73% of the company's outstanding shares, at between NT$18.83 (US$0.57) and NT$39.23...

A fire broke out at Tripod Technology's factory in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, in the late hours of December 21. It took firefighters using 25 fire trucks approximately five hours to...

MediaTek will likely report a substantial decrease sequentially in December revenues, due to a cutback in orders from handset vendors, according to industry sources.

ZTE has stepped up its efforts to internally develop smartphone chipset solutions, aiming to re-capture the title as one of the top-three smartphone vendors in China, according to...

As BOE Technology started constructing a 10.5G LCD panel fab in Hefei, northern China, in early December, Corning will set up a production base adjacent to it to become its glass...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have disclosed their OLED panel-use driver ICs already went through verification by Samsung's procurement unit, but they have not landed orders from...

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.24 billion in orders worldwide in November 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.96,...