Total yearly semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices) are forecast to continue their upward march and are now expected to top one trillion units for the first time in 2018, according to the IC Insights...

TAIPEI, Taiwan － Taiwan's Economic Daily News reported that Taiwan’s IC foundries were fully loaded. Including TSMC, UMC and VIS(Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation), had greatly increased their orders since the severe earthquake in February...

IC Insights reported that Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with nearly 22% of worldwide IC capacity installed in the country in the Dec-2015. And Taiwan surpassed South Korea in 2015 to become the largest capacity holder after having passed Japan in 2011...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to the TSIA survey that Q4 2015 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$563.2 billion(US$17.7B), down 1.9% on-quarter and 4.6% decrease on-year...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"), and Leadcore Technology Co. Ltd. ("Leadcore"), jointly announce that SMIC's 28nm HKMG (High-K Metal Gate) process is ready with customer's NTO (New Tape Out) success...

TAIPEI, Taiwan － The earthquake occurred on February 6 in Tainan, Taiwan, leading to more than fifty people were killed and hundreds injured, while undermining the part of the fab plant of TSMC. Which resulting in TSMC's Fab 6 and Fab 14 had to shut down to recover for more than three days, once triggered disruption risk of global semiconductor manufacturing chain...

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased 3 percent in 2015 when compared to 2014 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its year-end analysis of the silicon wafer industry. However, worldwide silicon revenues decreased by 6 percent in 2015 compared to 2014...