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Tuesday 3 March 2020
Taiwan IC designers eyeing shipments upturn in March
With labor return rates recovering in China, Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to see shipments start picking up in March as the impact pressure of the coronavirus outbreak...
Thursday 27 February 2020
MCU demand for healthcare apps grows robustly
Taiwan-based MCU specialists have seen orders for healthcare applications ramp up substantially, and therefore are striving for more capacity support from their 8-inch foundry partners,...
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Padauk looking to ship 1.3 billion MCUs in 2020
Taiwan-based MCU maker Padauk Technology expects its shipments of MCU products to grow by over 20% on year to reach 1.3 billion units in 2020, according to company Tang Tsan-bih.
Thursday 6 February 2020
Taiwan MCU firms land short lead-time orders for healthcare applications
Holtek and other Taiwan-based MCU firms have landed an influx of short lead-time orders for healthcare applications, such as ear thermometers, as demand has been surging since the...
Thursday 30 January 2020
Sales of semiconductors performing AI functions set to triple by 2025, says IHS
The global market for memory and processing semiconductors used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications will soar to US$128.9 billion in 2025, three times the US$42.8 billion...
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Nuvoton joins AWS partner network
Nuvoton Technology has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network to provide reference designs for IoT devices, according to the Taiwan-based MCU specialist.
Tuesday 10 December 2019
Nuvoton braces for impact from acquiring loss-making business from Panasonic
Acquiring Panasonic's loss-making semiconductor business will have a negative impact on Nuvoton Technology's profitability in the short term, and it may take time for the business...
Friday 29 November 2019
Nuvoton to buy Panasonic chip unit
Panasonic has agreed to sell its semiconductor business to Nuvoton Technology, a Taiwan-based MCU specialist majority owned by memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics.
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Chip demand for TWS devices to surge sharply in 2020
Global shipments of TWS (true wireless stereo) earphones are expected to surge sharply to 150-200 million sets in 2020 from around 100 million sets estimated for 2019, providing strong...
Tuesday 29 October 2019
MCU firm Holtek sees orders pick up
Holtek Semiconductor has seen orders start picking up from several IC distributors following China's October 1 National Day holiday, with order visibility extended through the first...
Friday 18 October 2019
MCU maker Holtek releases AI chip solution
Taiwan-based Holtek Semiconductor has developed its first AI chip solution to tap smart living application opportunities and has also launched a spate of new MCU products for automotive,...
Friday 30 August 2019
GigaDevice develops RISC-V MCU
China-based GigaDevice Semiconductor has unveiled what the company claims is the world's first 32-bit general-purpose MCU based on RISC-V architecture, with the product samples and...
Friday 23 August 2019
8-inch fab utilization rates may not rebound until 2020
Eight-inch fab utilization rates continue to fall on weak demand for automotive and consumer ICs and are unlikely to rebound until the first half of 2020, according to industry sou...
Thursday 15 August 2019
MCU market to regain growth after 2019 slump, says IC Insights
After reaching record-high sales in the last two years, the microcontroller (MCU) market slid lower in the first half of 2019 because of overall weakness in electronic systems, a...
Tuesday 30 July 2019
MCU maker Holtek sees most Q319 orders entail short lead time
MCU specialist Holtek Semiconductor has seen mostly short-lead time orders in the third quarter amid impacts of the US-China trade war, and expects to post a slight revenue decrease...
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SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research