Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—the world’s largest makers of semiconductors and processors—was forced to shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories over the weekend after being hit by a computer virus. Now, it turns out that the computer virus outbreak at Taiwan chipmaker was the result of a variant of WannaCry—a massive ransomware attack that wreaked havoc across the world…

The global top 10 IC design companies in 2018 the first quarter according to revenue and ranking come out, except MediaTek (MediaTek) and Novatek’s revenue presenting recession, the rest 8 manufacturers are going up. Among them, Broadcom topped the list with $48.1 billion, year-on-year growth of 15%. Qualcomm and NVIDIA were second and third with $3.897 billion and $2.79 billion respectively. According to latest statistics of…