A seasonal pick-up in communication IC demand is set to boost revenues at Taiwan-based IC distributors including WPG and WT Microelectronics in the third quarter of 2018, according...
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its fab operation in Xiamen, China to remain unprofitable in 2018 due to insufficient economies of scale.
IC testing firm King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) has announced that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 slipped 7.8% sequentially to NT$3.28 billion (US$112.9 million), citing seasonal...
IDC has cut its forecast for 2012 chip market growth to less than 1% from the 4.6% estimated previously. The market research firm also revised downward its projection for 2013 to...
Taiwan-based Sigurd Microelectronics, a packaging and testing company specializing in consumer and mature logic ICs, has announced that consolidated revenues for November 2012 climbed...
Smartphone vendors, having enlarged display sizes of their mobile devices to 4-5-inch and upgraded CPUs to quad-core models and display resolutions to up to 1,080p, are expected to...
In a major shift for the semiconductor industry, communications applications are forecast to surpass computer applications as the leading end-use for ICs starting in 2014 and lasting...
Broadcom and NetLogic Microsystems have entered into a definitive merger agreement, under which NetLogic shareholders will receive US$50 per share in a transaction of approximately...
Networking IC designer Realtek Semiconductor has increased 802.11n chip orders to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) thanks...
Taiwan-based networking IC designers including Realtek Semiconductor, IC Plus and Ralink Technology all believe their third quarter revenues will be better than the second quarter's,...
