Taiwan-based IC design house Macroblock reportedly has received lighting product-use LED driver IC orders from Chinese and European companies and will begin shipments in March. Macroblock...
Driver IC packaging and testing companies Chipbond Technology, ChipMOS Technologies and King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) recently have been able to receive mostly rush or short-term...
Himax Technologies has reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2008. Fourth-quarter sales were US$124.3 million, representing a 53.5% decrease from 2007...
Honeywell has announced that the company has granted Acer rights under US patent titled "Flicker-Free Liquid Crystal Display Driver System" in the design and manufacture...
Driver IC maker Sitronix Technology is expected to see its revenues tumble 30-40% sequentially in the first quarter of 2009 after the company recently reported that revenues dropped...
Orise Technology has reported January sales of NT$141 million (US$4.19 million), up 2% on month. January sales of Novatek Microelectronics were NT$904 million, representing an slight...
With first-tier LCD panel makers suffering losses in the fourth quarter of 2008, components suppliers will be engaged in an exceptionally intense price war in the first quarter of...
LED driver IC supplier Macroblock forecasts its first-quarter sales are to drop 10-20% from the fourth quarter of 2008 because customers are entering the slow period, although the...
MagnaChip Semiconductor, an analog and mixed-signal chip designer, has announced the unveiling of its high-end WVGA resolution supported AMOLED driver chip, the EA8850, for the high...
The global power management (PW) and driver IC market will experience a revenue decline of around 3% in 2009, mainly due to the current slowdown in consumer spending, IMS Research...
Ene Technology is optimistic about its LED drive ICs for decoration and lighting applications, whose sales proportion will increase to 10-15% in 2009, according to a Chinese-language...
Driver IC packaging and testing house Chipbond Technology's November sales were only NT$277 million (US$8.32 million), down 36% from October and lower than the company's breakeven...
Driver IC designers Novatek Microelectronics, Orise Technology and Raydium Semiconductor all have reported sharp sequential declines in November sales.
Despite that Taiwan IC designers are facing difficulties in the fourth quarter, sales of LED driver IC supplier Macroblock are still expected to stay flat from the third quarter....
With demand for large-size LCD panels remaining in the doldrums, driver IC designers are placing more emphasis on the small- to medium-size segment, according to industry sources.
