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Memory backend specialists have seen customer orders slow down recently, with the orders likely to remain stagnant till June as their clients, mainly makers of memory modules, are suffering weak supply of raw memory wafers from upstream suppliers, ac...

E Ink holdings (EIH) has seen its supply of colored e-paper solutions fall short of demand, and is expanding production capacity starting the second quarter 2020 to meet growing demand, according to company chairman Johnson Lee....

United Integrated Services (UIS), a Taiwan-based provider of engineering system integrated services for construction of high-tech factories, has had orders on hand totaling NT$54.051 billion (US$1.80 billion), according to the company....

IC production in China represented 15.7% of its US$125 billion IC market in 2019, up only slightly from 15.1% five years earlier in 2014, according to IC Insights. The share is forecast to increase by 5pp to 20.7% in 2024, said the research firm....

Apple is likely to roll out its augmented reality (AR) glasses in second-half 2021, sources at supply chains have claimed....

There have been speculations about Apple introducing AR glasses, with some putting the launch in the second half of this year, and others in 2022. Sources from supply chains claim Apple's AR glasses are likely to launch in second-half 2021. Apple is...

Sensor shipments for handset camera lens are expected to drop further in the second quarter of 2020, due to a plunge in end-market demand and excess inventory in the supply chain, according to industry sources....

Optical component provider Browave expects its sales to move upward in the second quarter of 2020 thanks to deferred shipments from the previous quarter, upgrade demand for CATV networks from North America and expanding FTTH buildups in Europe....

Xiaomi has reported strong sales for the first quarter of 2020, with overseas sales for the first time accounting for half of its total revenues....

Rigid-flex PCB manufacturers have seen orders for Apple's AirPods 2 slow down since 2020, but believe orders will return to year-ago levels in the second half of the year, according to supply chain sources....

Digitimes Research has lowered its global smartphone shipment forecast for 2020 to 1.15 billion units, down 15.4% from 2019's 1.36 billion because of the impacts from the coronavirus pandemic....

NAND flash device controller specialist Silicon Motion Technology expects sales of all its three major product segments to continue rising in 2020, when its overall revenue will still be able to register an on-year increase....

New car sales in China are expected to slip 22% to 20 million units in 2020, Taiwan-based Yulon Nissan Motor, has estimated....

The output value of Taiwan's semiconductor industry is forecast to increase 4-5.7% in 2020, despite headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic, according to the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)....

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment stayed above US$2 billion for the seventh consecutive month in April 2020, according to SEMI....

NAND flash memory contract prices are expected to stay flat in the third quarter, as demand for notebooks remains stable, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO of Silicon Motion Technology....

Huawei has built 200,000 5G base stations so far in China and the number is set to hit 800,000 by 2020 covering over 340 cities, according to company's wireless network vice president Gan Bin....

Graphics card manufacturers including Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology are expected to see their shipments continue ramping up and grow through the fourth quarter of 2020, according to industry sources....

Chip demand for 5G smartphones is expected to pick up starting the third quarter of 2020, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses....

ABF substrates are expected to see long-term robust demand for processing high performance computing (HPC) GPU and CPU chips solutions as chipmakers are pursuing constant upgrades in such chips, with AMD and Nvidia, in particular, racing to release h...