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Tuesday 1 March 2011
Analog IC designer Leadtrend eyes 20% sales growth in 2011
Analog IC design firm Leadtrend Technology has said that it aims for 20% revenue growth in 2011, as new products for network communication and LED lighting applications will bring...
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,...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
IC vendors set to cut prices as notebook, DRAM and PCB makers mull hikes
While the entire electronics industry supply chain is currently set in a price spiral with notebook makers already successfully raising their OEM quotes for the first quarter of 2011,...
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...
Monday 15 November 2010
Analog IC design house Richtek looks to on-quarter revenue decline in 4Q10
Analog IC design house Richtek Technology expects its revenues to drop 13-22% sequentially to NT$2.5-2.8 billion (US$82.74-92.67 million) in the fourth quarter due to seasonal fact...
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...
Thursday 23 September 2010
Explosive growth of LED driver ICs truly unparalleled, says Petrov Group
A bottom-up analysis of product portfolio, business performance, and technology and manufacturing trends of 25 IC vendors confirms the explosive growth of LED driver ICs, according...
Wednesday 11 August 2010
Richtek looks to sequential revenue growth in 3Q10
Analog IC design house Richtek Technology expects its third-quarter revenues to reach NT$3.2-3.5 billion (US$100.72-110.17 million), representing an increase of 2.5-12% sequentially...
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...
Thursday 5 August 2010
Lite-On Semi revenues hit two-year high in July 2010
Lite-On Semiconductor has announced consolidated revenues of NT$980 million (US$31 million) for July 2010, the company's highest monthly result since August 2008. The accumulated...
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...
Monday 26 July 2010
Analog IC design house uPI 2010 revenues to grow over 46%
Analog IC design house uPI Semiconductor, an affiliate of Powerchip Technology, expects its revenues to reach NT$2.3-2.5 billion (US$71.7-77.9 million) in 2010, up more than 46% from...
Friday 23 July 2010
Richtek claims victory in patent lawsuit against uPI Semiconductor
Analog IC design house Richtek Technology claims that it has won a patent lawsuit against rival uPI Semiconductor which recently applied for a consent order from the US International...
Monday 5 July 2010
National Semiconductor could become top performing analog IC vendor, says Petrov Group
National is the second ranked power management IC vendor, nearly one-half of its total US$$1.4 billion revenues comes from power management. National is also well positioned to become...