Last update: Monday 17 June 2013 [1463 news items]
Intel and Samsung to represent 42% of total chip capex in 2013, says IC Insights
Mar 27, 16:00
The combined capital spending by Samsung Electronics and Intel is forecast to represent 42% of the world's semiconductor capital outlay in 2013, up from 40% in 2012, according to...
IC design house Aspeed to debut on OTC securities market in April
Mar 26, 21:52
Taiwan-based fabless IC design house Aspeed Technology will debut on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) securities market in the second half of April with an initial offering price tentatively...
Taiwan IC design houses pull in more orders from supply chain in China
Mar 26, 14:05
Taiwan-based IC design houses have received more orders from clients in China's smartphone, tablet and flat panel segments recently as the supply chain in China has begun building...
Consumer, PWM IC designers to post 20-40% sales growth in 2Q13
Mar 22, 15:27
Taiwan-based IC design houses supplying solutions for consumer electronics products, tablets, LED lighting applications are expected to post revenue growth of 20-40% sequentially...
Memory IC backend firms seeing demand pick up
Mar 21, 14:55
Upcoming roll-outs of new smartphones and other mobile devices are set to drive demand for NAND flash and mobile DRAM chips, according to Taiwan-based memory IC packaging and testing...
IC distributor ANStek to hand out dividends of NT$2.30 for 2012
Mar 19, 19:20
IC distributor Answer Technology (ANStek) plans to deal out dividends of NT$2.30 (US$0.08) for 2012, including NT$1.80 in cash and NT$0.50 in shares, according to the company.
Silicon Works expands presence in global LCD driver IC market
Mar 19, 13:53
South Korea-based Silicon Works saw revenues from the LCD driver IC segment jump by over 100% in 2012, according to Digitimes Research in a recent report, which found that its fellow...
NAND flash inventory sufficient for now, say distributors
Mar 18, 22:26
NAND flash inventory is currently sufficient enough to meet customer demand, according to sources at IC distributors including Zenitron and Weikeng industrial.
ARM to help second-tier IC designers catch up with Qualcomm, Nvidia in 2014, say Taiwan makers
Mar 15, 14:14
ARM is reportedly considering plans to provide complete platform solutions to help second-tier ARM-architecture IC design houses, mainly Taiwan-based MediaTek and China-based Allwinner...
PC-related IC designers likely to post disappointing 1Q13 results
Mar 15, 12:19
IC design houses including Elan Microelectronics, Realtek Semiconductor, and Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) are likely to report disappointing revenue results for the first quarter...
Lite-On Semi looks to double-digit revenue growth in 2013
Mar 15, 11:41
Lite-On Semiconductor, a maker of discrete and analog IC components, has expressed optimism about its business outlook for 2013. Growth in sales from products used in mobile devices,...
Touch-panel IC supplier EETI to see sales rebound in March
Mar 14, 22:07
Egalax-Empia Technology (EETI), a design house specializing in touch controllers for LCD panels, is expected to see its revenues gain momentum starting March. Revenues are set to...
Mar 14, 21:27
Demand for TV-use IC solutions is picking up as first- and second-tier TV brands are gearing up to boost their inventories prior to the arrival of China's Labor Day holiday, according...
IC distributor ANStek eyeing market potential in industrial electronics sector
Mar 14, 15:15
Taiwan-based IC distributor Answer Technology (ANStek) is eyeing the market potential in Taiwan's industrial electronics sector and has seen a pick-up in orders from IC testing and...
Analog IC vendor On-Bright looks to strong performance in 1Q13
Newswatch - Mar 14, 12:06
Analog IC design house On-Bright Electronics expects its performance for the first quarter of 2013 to be better than that of the same period of a year earlier thanks to short lead-time...
IC testing firms post revenue drops in February
Mar 12, 15:35
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and STATS ChipPAC Taiwan Semiconductor all suffered sequential revenue decreases in February 2013, due to inventory adjustments...
Taiwan IC designers under price pressure from international vendors for 32-bit MCUs
Mar 12, 14:26
Taiwan-based IC design houses are facing increasing competition in the 32-bit MCU segment as international vendors have reduced quotes to close to prices for 8-bit models and have...
IC vendor Parade sees flat performance in February
Mar 6, 21:47
Mixed signal IC vendor Parade Technologies has reported revenues of NT$204.47 million (US$6.9 million) for February, down 3% from the previous month and 41.4% from a year earlier.
IC design house Parade to hand out high share dividends for 2012
Mar 4, 16:08
Mixed signal IC design house Parade Technologies has decided to deal out dividends of NT$7.62 (US$0.26) for 2012, including NT$3.50 in cash and NT$4.12 in shares, according to the...
Taiwan IC design houses to perform well in 2013 on booming tablet sales
Mar 4, 14:45
IC design houses, including MediaTek, Elan Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor, are expected to perform strongly in the first quarter of 2013 and also see their sales momentum...
Himax ramping WVGA driver IC shipments to Samsung, say sources
Mar 1, 12:33
Himax Technology reportedly is ramping shipments of its WVGA driver ICs to Samsung Electronics for its midrange Galaxy Grand Duos smartphone as the Korea vendor is pushing sales of...
KYEC looks to brisk sales in LCD driver IC and CMOS image sensor testing services in 1H13
Feb 26, 22:06
King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) expects its testing lines for LCD driver ICs and CMOS image sensors to continue booming in the first half of 2013, particularly for CMOS image...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan IC backend production value to outperform global industry
Feb 26, 15:42
Production value of Taiwan's dedicated semiconductor packaging and testing industry is forecast to grow 4.9% to US$13.88 billion in 2013, while the global industry will generate a...
Mobile IC vendors asking to renegotiate backend quotes for 28nm products
Feb 26, 13:46
The available capacity for 28nm mobile chips at IC foundries, mainly Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has become sufficient to meet demand since early 2013. Suppliers...
Qualcomm, Samsung claim top-2 spots in mobile handset IC market in 2012, says IHS
Feb 22, 12:24
Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics capitalized on rapidly shifting market conditions to claim the top-two spots of the mobile handset core integrated circuit (IC) business in 2012,...
Elan, EETI likely to enjoy particularly strong 1Q13
Feb 21, 15:31
Elan Microelectronics and Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) are expected to enjoy a particularly strong first quarter, judging from the brisk January sales reported by the two touch...
Taiwan IC production value to rise 9% in 2013, says report
Newswatch - Feb 21, 14:34
Taiwan's IC industry production value will rebound to a sequential growth track in the second quarter of 2013, and the overall value for the entire year is set to register a 9.3%...
Commentary: Google partnerships lifting Taiwan IC design industry
Feb 21, 13:59
While the overall prospects of the global technology industry for 2013 still look uncertain, promising first-quarter outlooks for a number of Taiwan-based first-tier IC design houses...
Five IC suppliers to hold one-third of 300mm wafer capacity in 2013, says IC Insights
Feb 20, 20:28
Semiconductor industry capital spending is becoming more concentrated, with a greater percentage of spending coming from a shrinking number of companies. IC industry capacity is also...
Second-tier analog IC vendors post strong sales in January
Feb 19, 21:48
Some second-tier analog IC vendors including On-Bright Electronics, Feeling Technology and Champion Microelectronic have posted strong sales in January, buoyed by orders from new...
Equipment distributors Topco, Scientech to see brisk 1Q13 sales
Feb 19, 15:37
Sales at Taiwan-based IC equipment and materials distributors Topco Scientific and Scientech both registered double-digit on-year revenue growth in January 2013. Both are expected...
IC design house Richtek posts revenue gains in January
Newswatch - Feb 18, 12:11
IC design house Richtek Technology saw its consolidated revenues gain 6.9% sequentially and 7.1% on year to NT$906 million (US$30.45 million) in January 2013, according to company...
IC design house GMT reports lower earnings for 4Q12
Newswatch - Feb 8, 15:21
IC design house Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) saw its pre-tax profits dip 30.9% to NT$169 million (US$5.7 million) in the fourth quarter of 2012. Pre-tax EPS for the quarter...
Richtek, GMT expect orders to pick up in March
Feb 8, 11:49
Analog IC suppliers Richtek Technology and Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) both expect their sales to start picking up late in the first quarter of 2013, thanks to demand for their...
Himax enjoys boom in sales of small- to medium-size driver ICs
Feb 7, 22:17
LCD driver IC supplier Himax Technologies saw sales of products used in small- to medium-size panels for applications, excluding feature phones, climb to NT$5.55 billion (US$187.5...
Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 21:08
DRAM shortages to continue for 3 years, says Inotera executive
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 20:56
Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 20:16
Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 20:04
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:50
Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:44
Foxconn to start production of 70-inch Ultra HD TVs in 1Q14
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:43
China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:42
JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:37
KLA-Tencor has announced a new generation in the Surfscan family of wafer defect and surface quality inspection systems: the Surfscan SP3. As the first unpatterned wafer inspection...
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Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden (ZMDI), a supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial and medical applications, has introduced the ZSSC3008 sensor signal...
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Samsung S3CT9KW smartcard chip
Samsung Electronics has announced what it claims is the industry's first 90nm dual-interface smartcard IC certified with evaluation assurance level of 5+ (EAL5+) from the Common Criteria...
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Color EPD controller co-developed by Seiko Epson and E-Ink
Seiko Epson and E-Ink have announced a new jointly developed display controller IC for color EPD, the S1D13524. The S1D13524 is a high-performance EPD controller with a built-in...
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LG Display 19-inch flexible e-paper panel
LG Display has announced a 19-inch flexible e-paper panel. The product is optimized for e-newspaper applications as it is able to convey the feeling of reading an actual newspaper,...
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Turning C code into silicon in 8-16 weeks: Q&A with semi startup Algotochip
Silicon Valley startup Algotochip specializes in architecting and implementing all aspects of a complete digital solution directly from the C-based algorithm of its customers, and...
Profitability more important than ranking: Q&A with UTAC president and CEO JC Lee
Being one of the top-ten IC packaging and testing companies in terms of sales, United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC) stresses the importance of profitability rather than ranking,...
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
- Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Wintek to benefit from Google and Amazon touch panel orders
- First-tier players may release smartphones that adopt heat pipes by the end of the year
- Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
- NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Chipbond ramping up testing capacity for advanced driver ICs
- Asustek expects 10% sequential drop in 2Q13 notebook and tablet shipments
- Taiwan makers see booming orders for smartphone tablet accessories
- OLED TVs to be similarly priced as LCD TVs by 2016, say observers
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Unity Opto profits double in 2012
- New Csun solar manufacturing facility in Turkey opens door for maker
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- AMD unveils upcoming server strategy and roadmap
- Kinsus sets 2013 capex at record NT$4.5-5 billion
- Connector maker UDE to benefit from games console orders
- Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
- Taiwan market: Handset shipments in 1Q13 hit record, says IDC
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- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- FIC partners with Cluster Wireless to deliver Intelligent M2M Solutions
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.