According to IC Insights’ latest forecast is for semiconductor industry capital spending to climb 20% this year. The figure shows the steep upward trend of quarterly capital spending in the semiconductor industry since 1Q16...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The TSIA survey showed that Q2 2017 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$572.6 billion(US$18.9B), up 0.2% on-quarter and 4.8% decrease on-year. In design, was NT$150...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese semiconductor testing services provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. Co. (CHPT) yesterday announced that next year they well launch a 7-nm testing product and also develop a PCB testing product for specialized applications in satellite and communications industries...

According to TrendForce’s research on semiconductor fab plans in China after 2016 finds that a total 17 new fabs are slated for construction so far. Five of these plants will be for processing 8-inch wafers and the remaining 12 plants will be for processing 12-inch wafers...

Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is projected to increase 10.2 percent in 2017, to $77.7 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. This growth rate is up from the previous quarter's forecast of 1.4 percent, due to continued aggressive investment in memory and leading-edge logic which is driving spending in wafer-level equipment...

HSINCHU, Taiwan – eMemory announced today that it has verified its latest on-chip security IP on several of UMC’s advanced nodes. The IP, based on unique IC biometrics, can enable a wide range of in-field security applications and be tailored for hardware protection within IoT and data centers...

Synopsys introduced its DesignWare High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) IP solution consisting of controller, PHY and verification IP, enabling designers to achieve up to 307GB/s aggregate bandwidth, which is 12 times the bandwidth of a DDR4 interface operating at 3200Mb/s data rate...