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Tuesday 24 August 2010
Lead time at 8-inch fabs drops to less than two weeks
Lead times at foundries are shrinking, with 8-inch manufacturing falling to less than two weeks compared to over 10 weeks earlier in 2010, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC...
Friday 20 August 2010
MediaTek handset solution shipments increasing
MediaTek has seen shipments of its new generation handset solutions, including MT6253, 6216 and 6268, increasing significantly after the company slashed prices in early July, according...
Thursday 5 August 2010
Greatek expects revenues to peak in September-November period
Chip packaging and testing house Greatek Electronics, which mainly focuses on the consumer electronics segment, expects monthly revenues to top NT$10 billion (US$314 million) between...
Thursday 24 June 2010
IC designers look to over 20% order growth from DSC and game console sectors in 3Q10
Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to see orders from the DSC and gaming console sectors increase over 20% sequentially in the third quarter and those from the notebook segment...
Friday 14 May 2010
Elan reportedly lands touch controller orders from Microsoft IPTV business unit
Consumer IC design houses Elan Microelectronics, Weltrend Semiconductor and Sonix Technology have seen orders for their consumer ICs continue to pour in for the second quarter of...
Thursday 6 May 2010
Elan sees revenues hit record high in April
Consumer IC design house Elan Microelectronics saw its revenues hit a record high of NT$570 million (US$18.1 million) in April, buoyed by shipments of touchscreen controller chips...
Wednesday 5 May 2010
ALi reports profit growth for 1Q10; partners with SMiT for HD STB
IC design house ALi has announced a net income of NT$341 million (US$10.8 million), or NT$1.12 per share, on consolidated revenues of NT$1.3 billion for the first quarter of 2010...
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Holtek and Elan to see 20-30% sequential revenue growth in 2Q10
Microcontroller unit (MCU) vendors Holtek Semiconductor and Elan Microelectronics are expected to see their revenues grow over 20-30% sequentially in the second quarter of 2010 due...
Friday 30 April 2010
Consumer IC makers to enjoy double-digit revenue growth in 2Q10
Taiwan-based consumer IC makers Sonix Technology, Elan Microelectronics, Sunplus Technology and Holtek Semiconductor are expected to register double-digit sequential growth in second-quarter...
Thursday 29 April 2010
Second-tier IC design houses to see double-digit revenue growth in 2Q10
With top-tier Taiwan-based IC design houses such as MediaTek and Novatek Microelectronics receiving the bulk of limited wafer supplies in the first quarter, results of smaller players...
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Sunplus adopts SpringSoft Certitude for multimedia IC verification
SpringSoft has announced that Sunplus Technology has adopted its Certitude Functional Qualification System, which enables the consumer IC design house to improve the effectiveness...
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Sonix looks to over 10% sequential revenue growth in 2Q10
Consumer IC vendor Sonix Technology expects its revenues to grow over 10% sequentially in the second quarter of 2010 with gross margins hovering at around 41%, according to the com...
Monday 8 March 2010
Consumer IC designers post revenues decline in February 2010
Taiwan-based consumer IC design houses Sunplus Technology, Sonix Technology and Weltrend Semiconductor saw revenues decline by 30%, 12.7% and 23.8% to NT$410 million (US$12.86 million),...
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Consumer IC design houses to see strong 1Q10
Sonix Technology, Holtek Semiconductor and Weltrend Semiconductor may report sequential drops in February revenues, but are expected to see a pick-up in March, according to market...
Thursday 11 February 2010
ALi says 1Q10 revenues to drop by single digits
Consumer IC design house ALi expects first-quarter 2010 revenues to decrease by less than 10% sequentially, but sales will grow around 60% on an annual basis, according to company...