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...

Amid tariff uncertainty under Trump, major U.S. and European chipmakers shared their outlooks in recent earnings calls. Some reported no clear shifts in customer behavior, while others outlined plans and potential impact timelines. Here's a quick read on how Intel, TI, NXP, and STMicroelectronics ar...

Ahead of any official chip duties announced by Washington, the China Semiconductor Industry Association advised last Friday that the origin of integrated circuits should be determined by where the wafer is fabricated, whether packaged or not. Under these rules, according to ijiwei, chips fabricated ...

While China plans to initiate anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into U.S. tech companies as a countermeasure to U.S.’s tightening chip controls, Texas Instruments may be among the first firms to be targeted, according to EE Times China and ijiwei. Industry insiders cited by the repor...

As two representative materials of wide-bandgap semiconductors, gallium nitride (GaN) currently thrives in the fast charging sector of consumer electronics, while silicon carbide (SiC) is gradually gaining ground in the application scenarios of new energy vehicles. Simultaneously, both are expanding...