IC distributors' inventories have been lowered to healthy levels of 1.5-1.7 months, but they remain cautious about placing orders with IC designers, according to market sources.
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...
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...
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...
ARC International has introduced new vertically-integrated audio intellectual property (IP) solutions, dubbed Sound-to-Silicon, for three major consumer electronics product categories...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
