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Wednesday 29 October 2014
Chip suppliers asking downstream vendors, OEMs to place long-term orders
Chipset suppliers are asking downstream vendors and OEMs to place long-term chip orders of up to 6-12 months on concerns that wafer production will remain tight in fourth-quarter...
Wednesday 22 October 2014
LED driver IC vendor Silergy set for brisk sales in 4Q14
LED driver and analog IC maker Silergy expects its sales to remain brisk in the fourth quarter of 2014 after its revenues hit a record high of NT$326 million (US$10.73 million) in...
Thursday 31 July 2014
MediaTek hikes 4G smartphone solution shipment target for 2014
MediaTek has raised shipment targets for its 4G smartphone solutions for 2014 to 30 million units, from 15 million set previously, according to company president Hsieh Ching-chiang...
Friday 11 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Korea to ramp PWM IC production value to US$10 billion by 2022
Korea plans to invest KRW323 billion (US$320 million) in R&D to ramp up the production value of its power management ICs (PWM ICs) to US$10 billion by 2022 with a 14% global market...
Friday 11 July 2014
Taiwan IC design houses aim to land more tablet IC orders from brand vendors
Taiwan-based IC design houses are shifting their focus to win more IC orders from brand tablet vendors instead of white-box suppliers since shipment growth of white-box tablets has...
Thursday 10 July 2014
IC design houses set for higher gross margins
IC design houses including MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Novatek Microelectronics and Richtek Technology are expected to see their gross margins for the second quarter of 2014...
Friday 20 June 2014
More chipset suppliers to tie up with Taiwan-based IC design houses
More chipset suppliers are likely to tie up with Taiwan-based IC design houses in order to tap retail channels as well as to expand their ecosystem in China, according to industry...
Thursday 15 May 2014
Qualcomm to promote 4G solutions at QRD 2014
Qualcomm will hold its annual event, Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) 2014 in Shenzhen, China on May 15. Participants will include Taiwan-based FocalTech Systems, Himax Technologies...
Thursday 13 March 2014
Shipment ratio of 8-core smartphone solutions to be lower in 2014
The shipment ratio of 8-core processors to total smartphone solution shipments will not be higher in 2014 as brand and white-box handset vendors in China will still prefer to use...
Friday 7 March 2014
PC-related IC suppliers see demand pick up
Taiwan-based PC-related IC design houses have landed a pull-in of orders recently prompting them to boost wafer starts at foundries, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 29 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan IC design houses perform strongly in 4Q13
Taiwan-based IC design houses performed better than expected in the fourth quarter of 2013, yielding production value of NT$125.01 billion (US$4.12 billion), up 0.5% from the prior...
Wednesday 29 January 2014
IC design houses head for strong sales in 1Q14
IC design houses MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Richtek Technology and Novatek Microelectronics are expected to perform better than expected in the first quarter of 2014, buoyed...
Thursday 23 January 2014
Weltrend braces for strong sales in 2014
IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor is expected to see revenues expand significantly in 2014, powered by its power management ICs for games consoles, SDIO controller ICs for mobile...
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Taiwan IC suppliers developing chips for MediaTek smartphone solutions
MediaTek's growing shipments of smartphone solutions, which are expected to top 200 million units in 2013 and 300 million units in 2014, have encouraged Taiwan-based suppliers of...
Tuesday 17 December 2013
Memory controller IC designer Skymedi to report loss for 2013
NAND flash controller IC design house Skymedi is likely to report a loss for 2013 due to a significant cut in orders from a major client, according to market observers.