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Wednesday 26 January 2011
Switch to 8-inch wafers to provide sufficient capacity and inventory flexibility for analog IC design houses
With the imminent entry of Texas Instrument's (TI) 12-inch analog IC process, Taiwan-based analog IC design houses have looked to transition to 8-inch wafers since the second half...
Tuesday 25 January 2011
TFT LCD analog IC design houses slashing prices by 10-30%
Taiwan-based analog IC design houses are aggressively cutting quotes, especially in the TFT LCD panel analog IC segment. With Global Mixed-code Technology (GMT), Raydium Semiconductor,...
Thursday 6 January 2011
Lite-On Semi consolidated revenues up 20% in 2010
Lite-On Semiconductor, a CMOS image sensor (CIS) and discrete IC specialist, continued to see a sales drop sequentially in December. However, sales for the whole of 2010 still showed...
Thursday 16 December 2010
STATS ChipPAC, Intersil qualify copper wire interconnect for analog and mixed-signal devices
STATS ChipPAC and Intersil have qualified the use of copper wire interconnect solutions on a number of high-end analog and mixed-signal devices which are in volume production, STATS...
Tuesday 23 November 2010
Etrend to enhance wafer probing, QFN test offerings
Testing company Etrend Hightech will extend its wafer probing and QFN (quad-flat-pack-no lead) backend service offerings in 2011, while maintaining analog and mixed-signal IC testing...
Friday 19 November 2010
Leveraging flexible pricing: Q&A with TI Taiwan GM Robin Chen
Speculation has circulated in Taiwan that Texas Instruments' (TI) 12-inch wafer foundry plant, which is about to enter volume production for analog chips, will allow the chip vendor...
Friday 19 November 2010
Analog IC testing firm Etrend sees weak performance for 4Q10
Etrend Hightech, a Taiwan-based testing company specializing in analog and mixed-signal ICs, has said its overall capacity utilization will drop to 70% in the fourth quarter of 2010...
Friday 22 October 2010
Lite-On Semi stops making CCMs for a major client
Lite-On Semiconductor recently announced that the company's plant in the Philippines has discontinued manufacturing of compact camera modules (CCM) for a major client, as the segment's...
Thursday 21 October 2010
Analog TV chip shipments rising due to prices falling under US$1
Prices for analog TV chips used mainly in white-box handsets have dropped below US$1 due to price competition from MediaTek and Quintic Microelectronics, according to sources from...
Friday 15 October 2010
TI reportedly to slash analog IC prices
Texas Instruments (TI) reportedly plans to cut prices for its analog ICs again soon following a reduction launched in August – a move which is design to counter the aggressive...
Friday 8 October 2010
VIS sees sequential drop in 4Q10 sales
Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 to decline significantly on quarter, due to inventory corrections by...
Thursday 9 September 2010
MediaTek launches new analog TV chipset, says paper
MediaTek has launched the MT8223 analog TV chipset according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. MediaTek claims that the MT8223 is the world's first ultra highly...
Tuesday 24 August 2010
Thirty billion power conversion ICs enable power management applications, says Petrov Group
The analog power conversion IC segment dominates the power management market; it accounts for about 30 billion units and US$11 billion revenues with a forecast average growth rate...
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Power management ICs in portable devices represent nearly 40% of total analog IC revenues, says Petrov Group
The annual unit growth rate for portable devices is estimated at more than 12%, from about two billion in 2008 to over 3.4 billion devices in 2013. These devices have an increasing...
Tuesday 3 August 2010
IC distributors Aeco, Koryo 3Q10 revenues to grow sequentially
IC component distributors Aeco Technology and Koryo Electronics are both expected to see sales continue growing sequentially in the third quarter of 2010, according to market watchers...