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Intel in May unveiled plans to launch its 7nm products in 2021, and it is now stepping up efforts towards achieving that goal. It has started placing equipment and materials orders for EUV fabrication processes since August. Meanwhile, TSMC expects 7nm and…

Taiwan-based biotech startup VesCir has released a smart personal skin care system integrating IoT, AI algorithm and biomedical technologies to present customized skincare solutions for consumers, according to TC Chang, the firm's AI algorithm engineer.

MediaTek is on track to enter volume production of its first 5G SoC for sub-6GHz networks in January 2020, having begun sampling the chips in the third quarter of 2019, according to company CFO and spokesman David Ku.

Several leaders from semiconductor firms and organizations have paid a visit to Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen, asking the government to tackle the two biggest issues facing the country's IC industry: a lack of talent and a lack of basic research.

China's DRAM startup ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) will operate as an IDM and start volume production of 8GbDDR4 and LPDDR4 by the end of 2019 as scheduled, according to Ping Rxuan, the firm's vice president and chief of its future technology evaluation…

Backend service leader ASE Technology Holding plans to set up 15 lights-out fabs by the end of 2020 as part of its efforts to strengthen smart production capability to support high-end packaging operations, according to CM Chen, senior director of its…

HannStar Display expects its sales for the fourth quarter of 2019 to rise sequentially, buoyed by strong demand for handset panels from Chinese vendors, according to company vice president Wu Hsu-ho.

PlayNitride is mulling increasing paid-in capital for mass producing micro LED production capacity, according to company chairman and CEO Charles Li.

Pure Storage at its Pure//Accelerate 2019 event launched an all-flash array storage, the FlashArray//C adopting a full-QLC-SSD configuration, looking to compete against competitors' hybrid storage combining HDD and SSD.

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment dropped both sequentially and on year in August 2019, but stayed above US$2 billion, according to SEMI.

Wafer test solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has announced the development of over-the-air (OTA) test solutions for mmWave 5G devices, including mmWave antenna-in-package (AiP) modules, and is showcasing the newly-developed OTA test…

After slowing in the past couple years, semiconductor merger and acquisition activity strengthened in the first eight months of 2019, according to IC Insights.

The worldwide market for high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs came to more than US$10 billion in production value in 2018, with Taiwan accounting for about 40% of the total value, according to data compiled by Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA).

Winbond Electronics has announced its new LPDDR4X memory series designed for the emerging AI and 5G applications, such as ADAS, smart speakers, 8K TVs, 5G mobile phones and security surveillance systems.

Intel has started placing equipment and materials orders for EUV fabrication processes since August, and is stepping up its pace of orders, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based Integrated Service Technology (iST) has maintained it has injected a lot of manpower and resources into in-house development of technologies while sticking to its established policy of respecting and safeguarding intellectual property rights.

The global semiconductor sector will experience constant quantitative and qualitative changes in the next 20-30 years, and heterogeneous integration will not be confined to CPU and memory chips but will also extend to domains beyond those not currently covered…

Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam has pointed out that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be untied from cloud computing and AI will also need to work together with human intelligence (HI), as there are still many human aspects that AI…

Some may think Moore's Law is reaching its limits, but for TSMC, it is still very much alive. The world's number one pure-play foundry is already conducting 3nm process R&D. TSMC chairman Mark Liu believes Moore's Law will continue to drive semiconductor…

EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues decreased 5.6% on year to reach US$267.7 million in the second quarter of 2019, according to IDC. Total EMEA PBBA open systems vendor revenues decreased 1% on year, with revenues of US$252.4 million.…

The Foxconn Group's development direction in the semiconductor industry will primarily focus on vertical integration, aiming to become a solution provider and devoting its investments mainly to light-asset businesses such as IC design, according to Bob Chen,…

Worldwide shipments of smart feature phones running KaiOS are forecast to climb 65% in 2019, with the Africa market being the major growth driver, according to Digitimes Research.

Innolux has teamed up with Taiwan's government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to develop fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) technology, which will be ready for volume production in three years, according to CK Wei, an associate…

TSMC has already kicked off 3nm process R&D, according to Philip Wong, VP of corporate research at the pure-play foundry. And with the evolution of Moore's Law, the company could make 2nm or even 1nm node manufacturing possible, said Wong.

China-based semiconductor firms are keenly luring talent away from chipmakers in Taiwan and South Korea by offering much higher pays, seeking to shorten time for technology development and narrow technological gaps with leading players, according to CY Lu,…

The global top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments rise 5% on month and 2% on year in August, as both Europe and North America entered the peak season, brand vendors started releasing new products and the Intel CPUs shortages were easing, according…

Power supply maker and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics and Microsoft Taiwan have announced a partnership that includes the former's adoption of the latter's Azure hybrid cloud computing services, and a joint data science R&D project.

Moore's Law will continue to drive semiconductor industry growth in decades to come, but Taiwan's IC sector is in need of sufficient engineers to support its development, according to TSMC chairman Mark Liu.

With the semiconductor industry entering the era of heterogeneous integration, biomedical electronics applications will definitely be using related technologies for their development, according to chairman of Etron Technology Nicky Lu.

The US is now the world's largest market for medical supplies and equipment, and Taiwan's healthcare startups and smart medication solutions providers can better tap into the US market with wearable devices for preventive medicine applications, according to…