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Monday 20 May 2019
Huawei seeking capacity increases at Taiwan partners despite US ban
Huawei has reportedly promised not to cut its orders with Taiwan's upstream and downstream supply chain partners and also inquired about the possibility of increasing their production...
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Novatek, Elan expect revenue growths in 2Q19
LCD driver IC design specialist Novatek Microelectronics expects shipments of its high-ASP and high-margin TDDI (touch and display driver integration) chips to top 20 million units...
Friday 29 March 2019
PC chip demand to stay sluggish through 2Q19
CPU shortages continued driving down global PC shipments in the first quarter of 2019 and even blurring order visibility for the second quarter. This, in turn, is seen to dim business...
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Taiwan consumer IC shipments start ramping up in March
Taiwan consumer IC designers are enjoying a significant shipment ramp-up in March, which may last into the second quarter, traditionally the high season for consumer electronics shipments,...
Monday 4 March 2019
Elan expects rising profits for 2019
Touch and fingerprint sensor supplier Elan Microelectronics is expected to suffer a 10% sequential decline in revenues in the first quarter due to fewer working days during the Lunar...
Thursday 27 December 2018
China OSAT firms foraying into higher-end packaging fields
China-based OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) firms are gearing up to tap into medium to high-end packaging fields, including the flip chip (FC) packaging segment...
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Intel CPU shortfalls may ease in 1Q19, benefiting Taiwan chip vendors
Taiwan-based IC design houses expect to see a new wave of orders from downstream PC and notebook clients before the Lunar New Year holidays in early February at the earliest, as the...
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Qualcomm, Goodix to dominate smartphone fingerprint sensor market in 2019
Qualcomm and MediaTek's China-based subsidiary Goodix Technology are expected to dominate the supply of fingerprint sensors for Android-based smartphones in 2019. This may prompt...
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Chip shipments for all-screen smartphones start ramping up
Shipments of chip solutions for all-screen smartphones, such as TDDI solutions, optical fingerprint identification chips and touch controller chips, have started growing fast as chipmakers...
Thursday 11 October 2018
Shipments of TDDI chips to double in 2018, says Digitimes Research
Global shipments of TDDI (touch and display driver integration) chips are expected to more than double to 326 million units in 2018, propelled by surging demand, according to an estimate...
Monday 1 October 2018
Taiwan gearing up to build world-class AI development ecosystem
Taiwan's cabinet-level Board of Science and Technology has recently set up a preparatory panel for enforcing an "AI on Chip" pilot development project, seeking to pool forces from...
Thursday 13 September 2018
IC designers gearing up to embrace biometric ID market boom
IC design houses in Taiwan and China including Egis Technology (Egistec), Goodix Technology, FocalTech Systems and Silead Microelectronics are gearing up to upgrade and expand their...
Thursday 6 September 2018
Elan revenues hit record for 2nd consecutive month
Touch and fingerprint sensor supplier Elan Microelectronics has reported August revenues increased 3.9% sequentially to NT$820 million (US$26.6 million) hitting an all-time high for...
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Elan to downsize capital by 30%
Touch and fingerprint sensor supplier Elan Microelectronics has disclosed its board of directors has approved a plan to reduce paid-in capital by NT$1.302 billion (US$44.3 million),...
Friday 13 April 2018
Taiwan IC designers expanding presence in car electronics sector
Zeroing in on automotive electronics as a new "blue ocean" market, Taiwan's IC design houses are expected to tap deeper into the sector in 2018 by enhancing innovative functions of...