The potential blacklisting of SMIC, China's largest pure-play foundry, by the US government may shake up the second-tier pure-play foundry market segment.

Materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are increasingly needed by IC designers, wafer foundries and backend houses to support R&D projects...

Taiwan-based pure-play foundries have seen orders for PCs and handsets ramp up in the third quarter of 2020. Nevertheless, orders for PCs and handsets received thus far for the fourth...

Most IC suppliers experienced weaker demand and generally poor sales results in the first half of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and strained US-China trade relations. However,...

System-in-package (SiP) demand will grow further on a wide range of applications enabled by the emerging 5G, AI and HPC technologies in 2021, according to industry sources.

TSMC is fast expanding output for advanced manufacturing nodes. Its 7nm process has already seen output reach 130,000...

Silicon Motion Technology with its PCIe Gen4 SSD controllers has reportedly cut into the supply chain of the world's top-4 notebook vendors for their new Tiger Lake products set for...

TSMC has already scaled up its 7nm process output to 130,000 wafers monthly ahead of schedule, with the monthly production set to climb further to 140,000 units at the end of this...

Ansys has achieved certification of its advanced semiconductor design solution for TSMC's CoWoS with silicon interposer (CoWoS-S) and InFO with RDL interconnect (InFO-R) advanced...

TSMC is set to open its R&D center for 2nm and more advanced manufacturing processes in Hsinchu in 2021, with plans to build its 2nm wafer fab nearby. TSMC has disclosed it is...

TSMC has introduced 3DFabric as its comprehensive family of 3D silicon stacking and advanced packaging technologies. 3DFabric complements the foundry's advanced semiconductor techn...

TSMC is working closely with a major client to accelerate its 2nm R&D and facilitate related investment procedure, the foundry disclosed at its online technology symposium on...

TSMC has unveiled its N12e process, a technology now in risk production optimized for edge AI applications.

TSMC is fast advancing its manufacturing processes. With volume production for 3nm node planned for second-half 2022, TSMC has disclosed that it has already obtained land in Hsinchu...

Government-developed Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) expects its revenues for 2020 to grow 15.7% on year to NT$860 billion (US$29.3 billion), mainly driven by TSMC ramping up...