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Nvidia has reported that revenues for fiscal third-quarter 2020 (ended October 27, 2019) reached US$3.01 billion compared with US$3.18 billion a year earlier and US$2.58 billion in the previous quarter.

TSMC has committed to building its most advanced fabs in Taiwan, but that doesn't mean that it will stop expanding production capacity elsewhere, particularly China, which is home to some of its biggest clients. Both TSMC and UMC have plans to increase their…

Taiwan-based InSynerger Technology has introduced cloud computing power management services by virtue of IoT, big data analysis and AI for non-residential users, according to company president Polon Chuang.

The ill-fated panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) is believed to be owing about 2,000 of its employees nearly NT$300 million (US$9.82 million) in salary, as it seeks to sell its 4.5G and 6G LCD lines to raise funds to cover the payments, according to…

The worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments slip 13% on month in October 2019, better than that of the same month a year ago, thanks to some lingering seasonal demand and some brand vendors' strong enterprise product shipments, according…

ShunSin Technology, Foxconn Technology Group's IC backend service affiliate, will be ramping up its capex next year to better meet growing demand for packaging high-speed fiber-optic modules as well as SiP service for 5G mobile communication modules, according…

LED wafer and chip maker Epistar and vertically-integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics have reported net operating losses of NT$874.6 million (US$28.7 million) and NT$145.8 million respectively for third-quarter 2019.

VIA has announced that Formosa Sumco Technology (FST) has adopted its AI technologies to improve process management and production of high quality silicon wafers. By integrating image recognition and intelligent learning algorithms, FST is confident of…

Laster Tech will invest NT$450 million (US$14.8 million) to construct a factory for making smart LED automotive lighting modules in northern Taiwan with trial production scheduled for 2020.

Micron Technology has unveiled what the company claims is the world's highest-capacity industrial microSD card, the Micron i300 microSDXC UHS-I series, which is offered in 128GB to 1TB capacities.

Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which supplies ceramic substrates and backend services for CMOS image sensors and other niche ICs, expects its 2020 revenues to hit a new high on robust expansion in CIS packaging business, according to company president Heinz…

Metal-alloy chassis maker Catcher Technology has seen orders from the smartphone sector continue ramping up, with the momentum likely to last into the first quarter of 2020, according to company chairman Allen Hung. Catcher is reportedly among the suppliers…

Panel maker Innolux will invest over NT$70.1 billion (US$2.29 billion) in Taiwan, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced. The MOEA has issued a green light to the Innolux project, saying it is in line with the government's goal of encouraging…

TSMC and UMC both plan to expand production capacities at their 12-inch wafer fabs in China to satisfy growing demand from local chipmakers.

Supply of HDI (high-density interconnect) boards has fallen short of demand in the second half of 2019, with Taiwan makers having to reschedule shipments to fulfill mounting orders. HDI boards, now mostly used in handsets, are expected to see a major rise in…

China-based Internet service provider Tencent Holdings has reported third-quarter 2019 consolidated revenues reached CNY97.236 billion (US$13.84 billion), growing 9.47% sequentially and 20.65% on year.

Optical lens module maker Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) has reported third-quarter 2019 net profit reached NT$1.301 billion (US$42.6 million), hitting a record level and soaring 496.54% sequentially and 377.76% on year.

China-based makers produced 95,000 new energy vehicles and sold 75,000 units in October 2019, decreasing 35.4% and 45.6% respectively on year, according to China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).

Foxconn Electronics has announced that it will invest NT$10 billion (US$327.23 million) for new shares to be issued by Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) through private placement for development of 5G networks and related applications.

The number of 5G service subscribers in South Korea is expected to reach over five million by the end of 2019, a significant growth from four million at the end of July, according to Samsung Electronics.

For Taiwan to efficiently develop startups, it is imperative for the government to help young talent connect to Israel's startup ecosystem and bring back that country's entrepreneurship, according to TA Wang, chief of the Science and Technology Division at…

While top chip vendors have been keen on securing support from TSMC's cutting edge 7nm and 5nm manufacturing nodes, demand for the foundry house's other processes have also been strong. Now TSMC and its fellow competitor UMC are both set to allocate more of…

Quanta Computer has expressed optimism about its performance next year, and believes its manufacturing flexibility will be able to encourage customers to place more orders, according to company vice chairman CC Leung.

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC), a foundry subsidiary of Powerchip Technology, has seen its order visibility improve and managed to return to monthly profits in the second half of 2019.

Intel has demonstrated its Nervana neural network processors (NNP) for training (NNP-T1000) and inference (NNP-I1000) - Intel's first purpose-built ASICs for complex deep learning for cloud and datacenter customers. Intel also revealed its next-generation…

Foxconn Technology Group will step up transforming into a provider of technology services by deepening deployments in electric vehicle, smart heath care and robot industries while also strengthening development of core technologies including AI, semiconductor…

IC design house FocalTech Systems managed to return to profitability in the third quarter of 2019, ending a streak of three consecutive quarterly losses.

Foxconn Technology Group will give more priority to profit improvement with a goal of boosting its gross margin to 10% over the next 3-5 years, according to company chairman Young Liu.

Asustek Computer expects to post flat growth or an up to 5% sequential decrease in PC sales in the fourth quarter, while sales of its component products including motherboards and graphics cards will drop 5% on quarter.

Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) has announced that its lineup of PCIe 4.0 NVMe enterprise solid state drives (SSD) has achieved PCI-SIG compliance for PCIe 4.0 and University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) certification.