With Samsung Electronics executive chairman Jay Y. Lee continuing to emphasize the "importance of talent," the company has been very active in bringing in talent from the likes of...

TSMC could hardly achieve profitable mass production of 5/4/3nm chips at its new plant under construction in the US, and will find it a tough challenge to transfer part of its huge...

Gudeng Precision Industrial, a semiconductor front-end equipment manufacturer, has reported its revenue surged 35% sequentially and 54% on year to NT$427 million (US$13.8 million)...

TSMC and specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have reported sequential revenue declines of 18.4% and 22.4%, respectively, in February.

Lin Jun-cheng, who previously worked in TSMC's advanced packaging and testing department, has been appointed as Samsung Electronics' VP of advanced packaging business, raising concerns...

TSMC is reportedly slowing down its new fab project in Germany, due to growing doubts about whether the pure-play foundry will receive adequate EU subsidies in light of the region's...

At each quarterly earnings call, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), apart from informing eager anticipants the resulting financial turnouts of the previous quarter,...

TSMC's fab utilization in the first quarter of 2023 is being dragged down by a rapid slowdown in 7nm and 6nm chip orders, but the foundry has managed to keep its overall fab utilization...

Rapidus, a new Japanese wafer foundry with the goal of manufacturing 2nm chips, will set up a wafer fab at Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Its eight major investors, including...

Third-generation compound semiconductor market conditions are expected to change in the wake of Tesla announcing a 75% cut in the use of SiC components for its next-generation EV...

According to Knometa Research, Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix held 76% of the leading-edge capacity at the end of 2022, with the majority of it going toward...

The Japanese government will again subsidize the production and development of semiconductors in Japan with a supplementary government budget for fiscal year 2022 (April 2022 to March...

TSMC saw revenue generated from orders placed by its largest customer increase over 30% on year to NT$529.65 billion (US$17.3 billion) in 2022, accounting for roughly 23% of the foundry's...

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the dominant sources of carbon emissions. Vast amounts of power are required to manufacture the chips. Most discussion about the methods to limit...

The buzz created by ChatGPT has resulted in the demand for processors increasing correspondingly as well. Headlined by TSMC, the foundry sector is seeing performance growth in the...