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Tuesday 23 May 2023
IC design houses see no demand momentum until 2024
Most IC design houses are generally uncertain about the prospects for the second half of 2023, as many end-market brand vendors and channel operators of consumer electronics products...
Monday 22 May 2023
Talent pool of Oppo's disbanded IC design arm attractive to Chinese peers
Since Oppo IC design arm Zeku Technology was disbanded on May 12, its huge talent pool has immediately become a hot target for midrange and high-end talent sought by Chinese IC design...
Friday 19 May 2023
Driver IC demand for EPD apps unlikely to pick up until end-2023
Driver IC demand for electrophoretic display (EPD) and electronic shelf labels (ESL) applications is unlikely to pick up until the end of this year, according to sources at IC design...
Friday 19 May 2023
Chipmakers see replenishment demand for gaming devices
Although most Taiwan-based IC design houses are conservative about their business prospects for the second half of 2023, they have landed rush chip orders for gaming device applications,...
Thursday 18 May 2023
IC design houses may see flat performance for peak season this year
Most IC design houses and even the entire semiconductor supply chain previously expected business performances to improve quarter by quarter after hitting the bottom in first-quarter...
Wednesday 17 May 2023
Memory demand poised to recover, says Etron chairman
The memory market has been showing signs of improvement and is anticipated to fully recover by the end of this year, according to Nicky Lu, chairman of memory IC design house Etron...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
IC design houses have diverse perspectives on China demand
While smartphone-related IC design houses continue to see sluggish demand from China and are generally bleak about market prospects for the rest of the year, other chip suppliers...
Monday 15 May 2023
Qualcomm, MediaTek show mixed sentiments about Oppo disbanding IC design unit
China's leading smartphone maker Oppo has just abruptly disbanded its chip design subsidiary, Zeku, sending shockwaves through the mobile phone supply chain and indicating the company...
Friday 5 May 2023
WinWay to open new probe card plant in May
WinWay Technology is scheduled to hold an inauguration ceremony for its new probe card plant in southern Taiwan at the end of May, according to the IC test interface solutions prov...
Thursday 4 May 2023
Taiwan IC design houses eye LLM opportunities
The rapid deployment of large language models (LLM) is fueling the overall AI trend. After witnessing the growth of LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Taiwan-based IC design houses...
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Taiwan IC designers little interested in charging pile chip solutions
Taiwan's major IC design houses have shown little interest in developing chip solutions for charging piles, due mainly to the relatively smaller market scale for the chip segment...
Friday 28 April 2023
MediaTek met all financial predictions for 1Q23; inventory clearance remains biggest challenge
Taiwanese IC design house leader MediaTek announced its complete financial results for 1Q23. Revenue reached NT$95.652 billion (US$3.11 billion), an 11.6% quarterly decrease and a...
Thursday 27 April 2023
TI sees market uncertainties for all applications except automotive
Leading analog IC vendor Texas Instruments (TI) has seen its overall financial results for first-quarter 2023 meet its original financial guidance, but its observation is that macro...
Wednesday 26 April 2023
TSMC, GF strike new contracts with car vendors
TSMC and GlobalFoundries have both struck long-term contracts with car vendors.
Tuesday 25 April 2023
Foundries experience order cuts from automotive IC design houses
China- and Taiwan-based foundries have experienced cutbacks in automotive IC orders from not only their domestic fabless chipmakers but also customers in the US and Japan during the...