MediaTek will continue to penetrate its 4G and 5G handset APs into Samsung Electronics midrange smartphone models in 2022, allowing its backend partners in Taiwan to benefit and indirectly...
MediaTek has seen its inventory level for handset application processors (including 4G and 5G ones) swell to 160-180 days from past regular levels of around 100 days, due mainly to...
MediaTek expects the proportion of AP shipments for 4G smartphones to progressively decrease in 2022 because it is allocating increasing operational resources for 5G AP and ICs used...
As Qualcomm is actively expanding its presence in the GaAs-based handset PA segment, its partners in Taiwan including foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor...
Specialty memory IC design house Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) expects its gross margin to stay high at above 40% in the fourth quarter of 2021, with the prospect that...
GaAs foundries and epitaxial wafer suppliers remain optimistic about demand for power amplifiers, and believe there's no concern about overbooking by customers, according to industry...
The mobile telecom landscape in India has changed drastically since startup Reliance Jio launched its 4G LTE network services in September 2016 with unprecedented free voice over...
For the sixth straight quarter, the global smartphone applications processor (AP) market clocked a double-digit on-year revenue increase in the second quarter of 2021, according to...
Taiwan-based OSATs expect backend shipments of 5G APs for Android handsets to decline in fourth-quarter 2021, as they moved to reduce purchases of related test sockets in early September...
While commercial 5G operations may have only just begun and its actual use in the general consumer market may still be limited, the industry is already thinking ahead to 6G.
GaAs foundry Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC), which already made upward adjustments in its quotes earlier this year, is mulling another price hikes in the first half...
Despite putting sales focus on 5G smartphones, handset vendors will find it a crucial task to sustain the competitiveness of their 4G models if they want to achieve good business...
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen a strong pull-in of orders for 4G mobile chips recently from their China-based handset clients, with the orders being placed at a much more...
