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Friday 22 June 2012
MediaTek to merge with MStar
MediaTek has announced plans to merge with fellow IC design company MStar Semiconductor following the completion of its tender offer to buy a portion of MStar shares.
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Taiwan IC designers looking to orders from China-based white-box smartphone vendors
Taiwan-based IC design houses have rekindled their hope that they can cooperate one again with China-based white-box handset makers to make a strong presence in China's smartphone...
Monday 11 June 2012
MediaTek, MStar strengthening R&D efforts on smartphones
MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor both have recently restructured their R&D teams to focus on the development of smartphones, while down-sizing the R&D units for feature phones,...
Wednesday 23 May 2012
HiSilicon licenses ARM Mali GPUs for smart connected devices
China-based HiSilicon and ARM have jointly announced that HiSilicon has licensed a range of ARM's Mali graphics processing units (GPUs) including the market leading Mali-400 MP GPU...
Wednesday 9 May 2012
MStar aims at 2Q12 revenues of US$300-318 million
MStar Semiconductor, a Taiwan-based LCD driver, analog, digital TV and mobile communication IC design house, expects consolidated revenues of US$300-318 million and gross margin of...
Thursday 3 May 2012
Chip demand for LCD TVs, monitors picking up
Demand for semiconductors used in LCD TVs and monitors has started picking up in May while notebook firms have stepped up their pace of orders, according to sources at IC design ho...
Thursday 29 March 2012
Taiwan IC design firms hope to benefit from Foxconn and Sharp cooperation
Taiwan-based LCD IC driver suppliers are expected to benefit from the cooperation of Foxconn and Sharp. In addition, the cooperation is likely to increase TV ODM and OEM orders to...
Friday 9 March 2012
MStar reports revenue gains for February
MStar Semiconductor has posted consolidated revenues of NT$2.91 billion (US$98.46 million) for February, up 12.3% sequentially and 22.5% on year, according to a company filing with...
Wednesday 7 March 2012
ALi, MStar offer new STB SoC solutions
Taiwan-based ALi has introduced a lineup of new set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solutions targeting growing demand for digital TV broadcasting in emerging markets, while fellow...
Thursday 23 February 2012
Demand for 2.5G/2.75G handset solutions picking up
Demand for feature phones has experienced a rebound recently, which will help boost sales of 2.5G/2.75G handset solutions for suppliers such as MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor in...
Thursday 23 February 2012
STB chip vendors experiencing increasing orders
STB (set-top box) chip vendors in Taiwan, including Novatek Microelectronics, ALi and MStar Semiconductor, have all experienced a substantial increase in orders recently as the increasing...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Nokia reportedly to release 2.5G, 2.75G chip orders to Taiwan firms
Nokia reportedly has begun design-in with Taiwan-based MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor for chipset solutions used in 2.5G and 2.75G handsets, with one or both of them expected to...
Friday 10 February 2012
MStar sees 8-13% sales drop in 1Q12
MStar Semiconductor expects its consolidated revenues to decrease 8-13% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012, citing low seasonal demand. But sales for all of the year should...
Wednesday 8 February 2012
MStar breaks into Nokia supply chain, says report
IC design house MStar Semiconductor reportedly has entered the supply chain of Nokia with its 2G baseband chips, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report....
Tuesday 31 January 2012
NFC chips to buoy MStar 2012 revenues
MStar Semiconductor expects new orders for chips used in near field communication (NFC) enabled phones to buoy its sales performance in 2012. Company chairman Wayne Liang has forecast...
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