After selling its plant in China, Catcher Technology’s operation is having higher flexibility and resilience against changes of the world compared to its competitors, according to company chairman Allen Hung. Catcher reportedly made iPhone chassis at the plant.

Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has achieved significant growth over the last two years, and demand for materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are growing, according to Danny Yu, chairman of Integrated Service Technology (iST), a Taiwan-based IC analysis and verification lab.

The supply of server-use power management ICs remains tight, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Display driver IC supplier Raydium Semiconductor has expressed optimism about demand for its OLED DDI chips, which will be increasingly adopted in handsets and other devices.