To promote the development of silicon carbide and other wide bandgap semiconductors of the Asia-Pacific region, The Asia-Pacific Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (APCSCRM 2018) will be held on July 9-12, 2018 in Beijing with over 400 participants, which is sponsored by IAWBS (Innovation Association of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Technology), IOP(Institute of physics of Chinese academy of sciences) and Beijing Ceramic Society...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Although hopes are not high for the second quarter of this year, this is not affecting resolve to make full-fledged efforts to hurry along the production of new technologies. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) at its Q1 investor conference stated that they will increase their yearly expenditures from US$11...

HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology Corporation today unveiled the success of projector ASICs, covering high-end 4K/8K projector, head-up display (HUD), AR, and 3D sensing pico-projector applications for top-tier projector manufacturers in Japan, USA, and Taiwan...

Research included in the April Update to the 2018 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report shows that the world’s leading semiconductor suppliers significantly increased their marketshare over the past decade. The top-5 semiconductor suppliers accounted for 43% of the world’s semiconductor sales in 2017, an increase of 10 percentage points from 10 years earlier...

SEMI announced that after several years of incremental increases the worldwide semiconductor photomask market surged 13 percent to a record high $3.75 billion in 2017 and is forecast to exceed $4.0 billion in 2019. The mask market is expected to grow 5 percent and 4 percent in 2018 and 2019, respectively, according to the SEMI report...

SEMI reported that worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $56.6 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 37 percent from 2016 sales of $41.24 billion. The data are available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report, now available from SEMI...

Fueled by heavy government investment, IC packaging and testing in China generated $29 billion in revenue in 2017, making China the world’s largest consumer of packaging equipment and materials, according to SEMI’s recent China Semiconductor Packaging Industry Outlook report...