IC Insights noted that only four of the top-10 companies sell products in all three O-S-D market segments. The 10 largest suppliers in the ranking accounted for 39% of combined worldwide O-S-D revenues in 2018, which is the same percentage as in 2017 (in contrast, the top-10 IC suppliers held a 70% share of the total IC market in 2018)...

Vishay Intertechnology introduced a new series of Automotive Grade AC line rated ceramic disc safety capacitors that are the industry's first such devices to offer AEC-Q200 qualification for Class X1 (760 VAC) / Y1 (500 VAC) applications in accordance with IEC 60384-14...

Entegris received an oral judgement on March 22, from the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court finding that Gudeng Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. infringes Entegris’ Taiwan Patent No. I-317967. The judgement against Gudeng awarded Entegris NT$978,869,835 (US $32...

According to TrendForce's newest research report, development momentum of advanced production processes has been dropping due to weakening demand in most end markets, including smartphones. Foundries face a severe challenge in 1Q19, and global foundry production revenue for the first quarter is expected to decline by around 16% compared to the same quarter 2018, arriving at 14...

The TSIA survey showed that Q4 2018 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$687.0 billion(US$22.7B) (down 0.7% on-quarter and 1.7% increase on-year). Separately, with NT$164...

HISNCHU, Taiwan – eMemory’s chip-embedded security IP received the Takuo Sugano Award for Outstanding Far-East Paper at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The company received the honor at the flagship conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society February 18th in San Francisco for its paper “A PUF Scheme Using Competing Oxide Rupture with Bit Error Rate Approaching Zero”...

China has been the largest consuming country for ICs since 2005, but large increases in IC production within China have not immediately followed, according to data presented in the new 500-page 2019 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (released in January 2019)...