Himax Technologies has announced it is teaming up with fellow display driver IC company Novatek Microelectronics to develop pre-roll AI solutions for battery-operated surveillance...
Mediatek, Novatek, and Realtek, Taiwan's three major IC design houses, all remain conservative in their 2023 outlook, since the overall visibility is not clear. What is clear is that...
International semiconductor players are enforcing layoffs and other drastic control measures amid lingering market headwinds, but Taiwan's IC design houses are taking a wait-and-see...
Taiwan-based IC-design houses continue to see clear order visibility for automotive chips although prospects for other chips for mass-market applications remain dull.
In a recent TrendForce ranking of global top ten IC design houses, one can see that semiconductor sectoral performances vary greatly, even though the industry in general is going...
Taiwan-based display driver IC suppliers including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies and Raydium Semiconductor are actively expanding their OLED DDI offerings, all eyeing...
Most Taiwan IC design houses have seen shipments suffer a freeze in the fourth quarter of the year, and their sales are expected to stay in low gear in the first half of 2023 amid...
Although demand for OLED DDI (display driver ICs) in the fourth quarter of 2022 is short of the expectation made in early 2022, relevant IC design houses including Novatek Microelectronics...
Vendors of consumer ICs are struggling against the bleakest-ever market sales, but those affiliated with major business groups or having good supply chain partners would more likely...
Display driver IC (DDI) suppliers are mostly pessimistic about sales prospects for fourth-quarter 2022, and their longer-term performance will be determined by their operation fundamentals,...
Taiwan's OSATs are increasingly cautious about whether or how to collect punitive payments from IC design houses violating capacity utilization agreements, as jointly tiding over...
Display driver IC supplier Novatek Microelectronics expects inventories held by handset and TV customers to return to appropriate levels in the first quarter of 2023 but is uncertain...
Since the latter part of the third quarter, Taiwan-based IC design houses, including first-tier players, have become aggressive in clearing on-hand inventories by slashing orders...
In response to sharp order cuts by downstream clients, an increasing number of smaller IC designers in Taiwan, especially those focusing more on PC-related chip solutions, have canceled...
