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Tuesday 13 January 2009
NAND flash controller supplier 3S expects to turn profitable in 1Q 2009
Solid State System (3S), a NAND flash controller design house invested by Toshiba and Kingston Technology, said that mass production of its NAND flash controllers on a 43nm process...
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Ene receives rush orders for netbook keyboard controllers from Compal, says paper
Ene Technology recently has received rush orders from Compal Electronics for netbook keyboard controllers for use in 10-inch and 11-inch Aspire One models that Acer will launch in...
Monday 12 January 2009
China IC design industry should strengthen R&D amid economic downturn, says Cadence executive
China's IC design houses should strengthen their R&D in order to gain competitiveness within their home market against foreign rivals, when developed markets such as Europe and...
Friday 9 January 2009
ARC International launches audio IP solutions for consumer electronics
ARC International has introduced new vertically-integrated audio intellectual property (IP) solutions, dubbed Sound-to-Silicon, for three major consumer electronics product categories...
Friday 9 January 2009
CES 2009: Elan develops touchpad solutions eFinger and eStylus
Elan Microelectronics is presenting its newest touchpad technologies at CES 2009, including the ghost free multi-finger solution, which can eliminate recognition of accidental multi-finger...
Friday 9 January 2009
PC-related IC design houses report weak December sales
Many Taiwan PC-related IC design houses saw unsatisfactory sales in December and have expressed pessimism towards the first quarter because of poor order visibility.
Friday 9 January 2009
CES 2009: IC design house Realtek showcasing wireless audio-video reference design
Realtek Semiconductor is unveiling and demonstrating its wireless audio/video reference designs at CES 2009. Solutions built based on wireless AV reference designs stream up to 720p...
Friday 9 January 2009
MediaTek results better-than-expected in December
MediaTek has reported its consolidated sales for December 2008 at NT$5.11 billion (US$15.45 million), down 17.54% on month and down 2.93% on year, beating the company's earlier exp...
Friday 9 January 2009
MediaTek solution in Sharp handset for China, says paper
Sharp has introduced a handset model in China adopting MediaTek's EDGE baseband chip and handset platform, meaning the Taiwan-based IC designer may now enter the US market through...
Thursday 8 January 2009
Consumer IC designer Prescope cuts into China education market
Taiwan-based consumer IC designer Prescope Technologies has cut into China's education instrument market by introducing a digital learning notebook together with a China maker, with...
Monday 5 January 2009
IC designers see weak December sales, conservative about 1Q09
Performances of Taiwan IC design houses were generally not satisfactory in December 2008, with some expected to report an over 30% sequential sales decline. The IC designers do not...
Tuesday 30 December 2008
Support for TD-SCDMA said to be declining, but MediaTek continues chip development for the China standard, says paper
MediaTek's TD-SCDMA handset chips may be impacted by China Mobile's delay in its third-stage procurement project for TD-SCDMA handsets and by the fact that some major handset makers,...
Monday 29 December 2008
MediaTek to see inventory and long-term investment losses in 4Q08
MediaTek's non-operating losses for the fourth quarter are expected to total NT$1-1.5 billion (US$30.3-45.5 million) as it will report losses from inventory and long-term investment...
Thursday 25 December 2008
MediaTek advances some January shipments to December, says paper
Market observers estimate MediaTek's consolidated sales in December will be better than expected at NT$4.5-5 billion (US$136.53-151.75 million) because some of the shipments scheduled...
Wednesday 24 December 2008
Global Unichip to provide SSD controller solutions in 2009
IC design service provider Global Unichip has started developing solid-state drive (SSD) controller solutions based on ARM platform designs with Taiwan-based AboUnion Technology....