According to Economic Daily News, industry sources note that Taiwan’s leading IC design firms are sharply cutting wafer foundry orders for mature nodes in the second half of the year. In Q3 alone, orders have dropped 20–30% from Q2 levels. As a result, utilization rates at mature-node foundrie...

As TSMC doubles down on advanced node development to ride the AI wave, it's steadily pulling back from legacy businesses. According to the Commercial Times, citing a press release from Navitas Semiconductor, TSMC will wind down its Gallium Nitride (GaN) wafer foundry services by July 31, 2027. No...

As noted by Central News Agency, since China is actively expanding in mature nodes, the impact of the country's newly added capacity is expected to intensify. TrendForce predicts that China's foundry giant Nexchip will surpass Taiwanese foundries VIS and PSMC, moving up from 10th to 8th place i...

According to recent reports from foreign media, the Vietnamese government has officially approved a wafer fab construction project with a total investment of VND 12.8 trillion (approximately $500 million). This will be Vietnam’s first wafer fab, marking a key breakthrough in the country's semicond...

A major collaboration between Taiwan and Japan on semiconductors has been halted, as PSMC suddenly informed SBI Holdings in late September that it was unable to proceed with the plan of constructing a fab in Japan as it had promised a year ago. With various speculations circulating concerning the re...