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Thursday 2 December 2010
More Taiwan-based IC design houses set up subsidiaries in Sichuan, China
Following MediaTek and Sunplus Technology, more Taiwan-based IC design houses are setting up subsidiaries in Sichuan, China to take advantage of cheaper and abundant R&D personnel...
Thursday 2 December 2010
IC design house Socle appoints new CEO
Socle Technology has announced the appointment of Stone Peng as its new president and CEO. Peng, a 25-year veteran, has extensive and deep experience in engineering, sales, marketing,...
Wednesday 1 December 2010
ODM notebook makers require IC vendors to prepare shipments for three months
Taiwan-based notebook ODMs have recently demanded IC suppliers prepare all necessary parts and components to assure that their supplies of related notebook ICs will be sufficient...
Tuesday 23 November 2010
MediaTek 4Q10 handset-chip shipments to revert to peak level, says paper
MediaTek's total handset IC shipments will likely return to a peak level of 20 million units per month in the fourth quarter of 2010, buoyed by strategic price cuts for 2G solutions,...
Friday 19 November 2010
Taiwan IC designer Taifatech wins investment from Intel Capital
Taifatech, a Taiwan-based design house of SoCs used in network video communications, is among Intel Capital's 18 most recent investment targets due to its WiDi-like SoC solutions,...
Friday 15 October 2010
Memory IC designer Chingis to list on Taiwan emerging stock market
Chingis Technology, a fabless chipmaker of embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions, will list on Taiwan's emerging stock market on October 29. The company mainly supplies 4Mb...
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Etron reaches milestone of over 19 million webcam controllers shipped; intros new product
Leading fabless specialty DRAM company Etron Technology announced on September 28 it shipped more than 19 million units of webcam controller IC in just over a year.
Thursday 16 September 2010
Touch screen IC shipments to buoy Elan September revenues
Touch panel IC designer Elan Microelectronics expects to see revenues in September 2010 bounce back to better than the level of August, buoyed by a ramp-up in orders from both the...
Monday 13 September 2010
Memory IC designer Eon sees August sales up 18%
Eon Silicon Solution saw August 2010 revenues increase 18% sequentially to NT$516 million (US$16 million), buoyed by a ramp-up in orders for handset-use multi-chip package (MCP) memory...
Thursday 24 June 2010
TSMC and UMC see orders increase for 3Q10
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have seen some major clients, including Qualcomm, Integrated Memory Logic (iML), Microsoft...
Monday 14 June 2010
IC design houses likely forced to reduce quotes on rising labor costs in China
Taiwan-based IC design houses are worried that they will be poised under an unfavorable position in future price negotiations with ODMs and OEMs should those makers be forced to raise...
Monday 14 June 2010
USB controller chip vendors looking to recruit talent from memory sector
Taiwan-based USB controller design houses are recruiting talent from the memory chip sector as they are gearing up efforts to compete for orders in the growing USB 3.0 controller...
Friday 11 June 2010
Maxim makes complete U-turn toward foundries and 180nm technology platforms, says Petrov Group
A "New Maxim," a US$1.65 billion company in 2009, has emerged, according to The Petrov Group. Maxim Integrated Products has undergone a dramatic transformation since 2007...
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Elan continues monthly revenue record in May
Touch panel IC designer Elan Microelectronics has seen its revenues hit an all-time high for the second straight month to reach NT$577.74 million (US$17.79 million) in May 2010.
Tuesday 8 June 2010
LCD driver IC vendors see strong on-year revenue gains in May
LCD driver IC designers Novatek Microelectronics, Raydium Semiconductor and Orise Technology have all seen their May 2010 revenues grow substantially on an on-year basis, thanks to...