Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has purchased a batch of machinery and engineering equipment from Applied Materials and Disco for a total of about...

Acer founder Stan Shih, in response to public controversy over China-based Tsinghua Unigroup's proposed stake investment in three Taiwan-based semiconductor companies, indicated that...

IC shipments for automotive electronics, wearables and IoT devices will enjoy a higher increase than shipments for PCs, tablets and smartphones in 2016, according to sources at Taiwan-based...

Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will decrease 0.6% to US$37.3 billion in 2015, according to SEMI. But in 2016, nominal positive growth is expected resulting...

The US$18 billion semiconductor packaging materials will undergo steady single-digit unit volume growth for many material segments through 2019, including laminate substrates, IC...

China-based IC foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced the company will expand its IP portfolio with M31 Technology's differentiated high-speed interface...

Taiwan has come to a turning point as whether it should open its IC design industry to China investment. The issue arises now as China-based Tsinghua Unigroup wants to buy a 25% stake...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has proposed to acquire all outstanding shares of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) for NT$55 (US$1.67) each. ASE currently holds a...

IC distributor WT Microelectronics posted consolidated revenues of NT$8.942 billion (US$272.82 million) for November, down 1.47% on month and 13.85% on year.

Qualcomm, which announced plans to begin developing ARM-based chips for servers in November 2014, has started delivering server-use CPU samples to potential clients and has also set...

WPG Holdings has reported consolidated revenues of NT$48.042 billion (US$1.47 billion) for November 2015, representing a 3.01% increase on month and 25.06% increase on year.

Taiwan-based flexible PCB (FPCB) suppliers Career Technology, Flexium Interconnect and Zhen Ding Technology Holding have reported sequential decreases of 2.6%, 22.2% and 12.8%, respectively,...

Taiwan-based PCB manufacturers have posted mixed revenue results for November 2015.

AMD placed orders for 2-2.2 million USB 3.1 Host controller ICs with ASMedia Technology at US$2-2.20 per unit in the third quarter to bundle with its chipsets including 990FX and...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) planned 12-inch wafer fab in China could be vying for 16nm chip orders from China's local IC design houses specializing in the...