Rising foundry and backend quotes are prompting IC design houses to make efforts to pass on higher production costs to customers, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Most Taiwan-based analog IC design houses are likely to see double-digit growths for their revenues and profits in 2021, judging from their clear order visibility, according to industry...
Taiwan's IC backend supply chain players are poised to embrace another robust year in 2021 driven by strong demand for 5G and Wi-Fi 6 applications, after logging full capacity utilization...
Notebook brand vendors are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward whether to have their supply chain partners move production out of China, as the Biden administration is not expected...
Taiwan's IC design houses expect their book-to-bill ratios to stay well above 1.0 throughout 2021, thanks to persistently tight foundry capacity undermining their shipment fulfillments...
Taiwan-based IC design service providers and analog chip suppliers have seen demand for mining chips start picking up recently, according industry sources.
Airoha Technology, a MediaTek subsidiary, will acquire all shares of fellow company IC Plus at NT$22 (US$0.78) per share, according to company filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange...
Taiwan-based analog IC design houses, including MOSFET chip specialists, may have seen their sales growth constrained by tight capacity at 8-inch foundries in the second half of 2020,...
The supply of 4G SoCs and PA components for both 4G and 5G models are falling short of demand, but may ease by the end of 2020, according to IC distribution sources.
Taiwan's IC designers have benefited the most from China's de-Americanization campaign, but they will have to brace for new competition pressure from Chinese chipmakers aggressively...
Power management IC designer Analog Integrations has seen clear order visibility through the fourth quarter and is likely to swing to profitability for the whole year of 2020, according...
The global semiconductor industry has too much capacity, too many players and has had declining revenues since the end of 2018. Market prospects are bleak for the next two years and...
Globalfoundries has announced its most advanced FinFET solution, 12LP+, which is ready for production. The differentiated 12LP+ solution is optimized for artificial intelligence (AI)...
Pandemic-triggered robust demand for networking chips, notebook chip solutions, healthcare sensors and MCUs is expected to last into October, with networking ASICs, in particular,...
