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Monday 27 November 2023
IC design houses grapple with unrelenting price-reduction pressures from customers and high raw material costs
While positive about their revenue performance returning to a growth track with high expectations for an economic upswing in 2024, most IC design houses in Taiwan continue to face...
Monday 27 November 2023
Challenges remain as system integrators self-developed chips against established IC design houses
As the AI era arrives, cloud service providers (CSP) have increasingly recognized the importance of high-performance computing (HPC) chips, and system integrators, hardware manufacturers,...
Thursday 23 November 2023
Taiwan memory IC design houses gearing up for edge AI boom
Taiwan-based memory IC design houses including Etron Technology and AP Memory have stepped up their deployment in the edge AI market segment, which is expected to grow through 2025...
Thursday 23 November 2023
IC suppliers see support from new handset models in 4Q23
Chinese brand vendors releasing new handset models are providing support for related peripheral IC suppliers' sales in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 14 November 2023
IC design houses expect lower foundry prices in 1Q24
Pure-play foundries such as United Microelectronics (UMC), Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) may lower their quotations...
Tuesday 14 November 2023
IC design houses see disappointing end-market demand in China
China's Double 11 online shopping festival has failed to generate end-market demand, with only a few brands like Xiaomi reporting decent sales, indicating that China's consumer market...
Monday 13 November 2023
Smartphone and PC market rebound only transient? IC designers say consumer demand momentum may not fully recover until 2H24
The landscape of the IC design industry presents a mixed picture regarding the recent upturn in the mobile phone and PC markets. While some IC design companies have delivered promising...
Monday 6 November 2023
Taiwan's IC design houses under growing pressure as generative AI rewrites the game
Generative AI is making its way into edge devices: though there remain bottlenecks to overcome in terms of software and hardware, the overall trend is very significant. PC and mobile...
Monday 6 November 2023
India roundup: More Indian companies venture into IC design and handset-making
India may see more local companies venture into the IC design sector as it develops its local semiconductor supply chain. Apple saw an improving performance in India when it encountered...
Friday 3 November 2023
Taiwan to spend NT$300 billion on IC innovation in 10 years
Taiwan's cabinet has approved a plan that commits the government to investing NT$300 billion (US$9.28 billion) in domestic IC industry innovation over a 10-year period. It is scheduled...
Friday 3 November 2023
AI PC market unlikely to take off until 2025, says Elan
Notebook touch controller specialist Elan Microelectronics believes that the AI PC era has just begun and will not take off until 2025, after its first year of development.
Wednesday 1 November 2023
India EPC giant L&T to venture into IC design
As India is looking to develop a local semiconductor ecosystem, India-based EPC giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced a plan to venture into IC design based on its capabilities...
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Global semiconductor market to recover in 2024; Taiwan to benefit
Despite the influences from the negative economic factors and geopolitics in 2023, the global semiconductor market is expected to enjoy a recovery in 2024 as the worst is expected...
Friday 27 October 2023
Flexium expects sales to peak in 4Q23
Flexium Interconnect, a company specializing in flexible PCBs, expects its sales to peak for 2023 in the fourth quarter.
Friday 27 October 2023
Semiconductor output value to increase at least 12% in 2024, says Etron chairman
The output value of the global semiconductor industry is anticipated to increase by 12-14% next year, according to Nicky Lu, chairman of memory IC design firm Etron Technology.