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Monday 28 September 2009
Motorola to outsource all sub-US$150 handsets; MediaTek to supply chips, says paper
Motorola has decided to outsource all of its entry-level handsets priced below US$150 and designated MediaTek to be the chip supplier, according to a Chinese-language United Daily...
Friday 25 September 2009
MediaTek buys office building in Beijing
MediaTek has announced that it has spent 744.95 million yuan (US$109.09 million) buying an office building in Beijing, China, with market observers speculating that it is a step the...
Friday 25 September 2009
MediaTek to shift to 45nm in 1Q10
MediaTek plans to leap to 45nm processing for 3G chips in the first quarter of 2010 despite that volume production of 65nm WCDMA chips is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter...
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Broadcom to begin shipping baseband ICs to Nokia, says Broadcom Taiwan
Broadcom will stat shipping handset baseband ICs to Nokia by the end of 2009, according to the company's Taiwan country manager Dana McCarty. Samsung Electronics has also begun adopting...
Tuesday 22 September 2009
HTC evaluating Broadcom as additional 3.5G chipset supplier, sources say
HTC (High Tech Computer) is evaluating the possibility of adding Broadcom to its supplier list of 3.5G chipset solutions to fulfill its goal of introducing more entry-level and mid-range...
Wednesday 9 September 2009
MediaTek to see challenges in China market
MediaTek is expected to be challenged in the China market by decreasing demand partly due to high inventory levels and price competition from Taiwan-based MStar Semiconductor, despite...
Friday 4 September 2009
MediaTek revenues expected to exceed NT$12 billion in August
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues grow 10% sequentially to surpass NT$12 billion (US$364.74 million) in August due to strong demand from the handset industry in China, according...
Thursday 3 September 2009
Qualcomm, Xilinx and Altera reduce wafer starts at foundries for 4Q09, say sources
Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm, and FPGA designers Altera and Xilinx have reduced their wafer start orders for the fourth calendar quarter of 2009 to their foundry partners, according...
Tuesday 1 September 2009
Taiwan smartphone application IC market grows significantly in 2Q09, says MIC
Taiwan smartphone application IC market volume reached 89.37 million units in the second quarter of 2009, up 33.9% sequentially, according to Taipei-based Market Intelligence &...
Friday 21 August 2009
MediaTek dismisses newspaper report on 3Q09 shipment growth
MediaTek has dismissed a recent newspaper report concerning the IC designer's third-quarter shipment growth. It described the Commercial Times report as speculation.
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Competition for high-growth mobile chip market escalating in 2009, says In-Stat
The battle for the fast-growing mobile semiconductor market will intensify in late 2009 with the introduction of new processors from each camp - ARM and x86, reports In-Stat. Intel...
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Base station IC demand has better 2H09 business outlook than handset ICs
Although Taiwan-based MediaTek has enjoyed booming sales of ICs used in handsets, ICs used in mobile communications base stations have a significantly better global business prospect...
Friday 14 August 2009
TSMC, UMC 4Q09 utilization to remain above 80%
Order visibility at both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has extended to November 2009, with utilization rates expected...
Wednesday 5 August 2009
MediaTek expects to ship more than 300 million handset chips in 2009
MediaTek now expects its handset chip shipments to exceed 300 million chips in 2009, compared to its original estimate of 250 million units. The IC designer attributed its upward...
Tuesday 4 August 2009
HTC may cooperate with MediaTek to target low-cost smartphone market, say sources
It is possible that High Tech Computer (HTC), in an attempt to enter the low-cost smartphone market, will cooperate with MediaTek for price-competitive handset IC solutions and to...