Last update: Thursday 13 June 2013 [161 news items]
Ultra HD displays to ramp up growth of large-size LCD driver ICs, says Novatek executive
Jun 13, 16:33
Ultra HD panels will become the mainstream large-size panels in 2013 and the increasing popularity of Ultra HD displays will drive up demand for large-size LCD driver ICs, according...
MediaTek, MStar TV chip market share in China falling down
May 7, 22:16
MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor have seen their combined share in China's TV chip market drop to below 70% recently as more TV brands in China have chosen to use TV chips from Realtek...
IC demand in China will remain robust after May 1 holidays, say sources
May 6, 15:11
Demand for IC parts from the smartphone and tablet sectors in China will remain strong even after the May 1 holiday season as market players are adjusting upward their forecasts of...
Taiwan LCD driver IC vendors post strong sales in March
Apr 12, 15:33
Most Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors have posted strong revenue gains in March as end-market suppliers in China are building up inventories for the May 1 holiday season and also...
TV IC suppliers see 2Q13 orders ramp up
Apr 12, 15:14
TV-use IC suppliers including MStar Semiconductor, Realtek Semiconductor and Novatek Microelectronics are expected to see their orders increase more than 20% sequentially in the second...
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...
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...
TSMC short-term growth momentum affected by low order visibility for 2Q13
Mar 6, 11:21
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see its short-term growth momentum affected by a low order visibility from international smartphone and tablet chipset...
Supplies of LCD driver ICs likely to become tight in March-April, say sources
Mar 1, 15:13
Supplies of LCD driver ICs may become tight in March-April as most branded vendors will begin to roll out their flagship models in the second quarter, while China-based vendors will...
Novatek reports flat performance for January
Newswatch - Feb 18, 14:18
Novatek Microelectronics has announced consolidated net sales of NT$3.3 billion (US$110.92 million) for January 2013, down 0.5% from the previous month but up 42.2% from a year ear...
Novatek posts profit growth of 20% in 2012
Jan 31, 22:21
LCD driver IC supplier Novatek Microelectronics has announced that net profits for 2012 rose 20.1% to NT$4.44 billion (US$150 million). EPS for the year came to NT$7.32.
LCD driver IC vendors to perform strongly in 1Q13
Jan 30, 15:58
LCD driver IC vendors including Orise Technology, Sitronix Technology and ILi Technology (Ilitek) all expected to perform strongly in the first quarter of 2013, scaling down the impact...
LCD driver IC vendors post revenue gains in 2012
Jan 9, 15:47
LCD driver IC vendors Novatek Microelectronics, ILi Technology (Ilitek) and Orise Technology saw their revenues gain 5.6%, 16.5% and 20%, respectively, to NT$37.01 billion (US$1.28...
LCD driver IC vendors to ship more eDP driver chips in 2013
Dec 28, 11:42
LCD driver IC vendors including Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies are likely to see their shipments of eDP (embedded DisplayPort) LCD driver ICs increase significantly...
Four LCD driver IC designers see mixed sequential growth in November revenue
Dec 10, 22:34
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and ILI Technology had November revenues slipping on month by 3.70% and 8.69% respectively, while fellow design houses...
LCD driver IC vendors to post mixed results for 4Q12
Nov 30, 15:41
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors are expected to post mixed results for the fourth quarter of 2012, with Orise Technology to lead its peer companies to enjoy a 30% sequential revenue...
Novatek, Himax look to strong sales in 4Q12
Nov 20, 15:02
LCD driver IC vendors Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies both are expected to see their sales remain strong in the fourth quarter of 2012 despite the impact of seasonality,...
Novatek to post flat 4Q12 sales
Nov 7, 14:35
IC design house Novatek Microelectronics is expected to report flat sequential growth in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012, bucking seasonal trends, according to market watch...
Elan reports strong sales for October
Nov 6, 14:04
Touchscreen controller IC vendor Elan Microelectronics saw its revenues grow 0.8% sequentially and 75% on year to a record high of NT$724 million (US$24.75 million) in October.
Novatek shipments of small- to medium-size LCD driver ICs to remain strong in 4Q12
Oct 25, 11:50
Significant shipments of small- to medium-size LCD driver ICs will limit Novatek Microelectronics' sequential decline in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 to a moderate 4-6%...
TV chip and driver IC vendors see improving order visibility for 4Q12
Oct 17, 22:16
Taiwan-based IC design houses offering TV chips and LCD driver ICs have seen improvements in order visibility for the fourth quarter of 2012 due to strong sales of LCD TVs in China...
LCD driver IC vendors post strong gains in 3Q12, but uncertain about 4Q12
Oct 8, 16:16
Most LCD driver IC vendors are conservative about the business outlook for the fourth quarter of 2012 despite strong revenue gains posted in the third quarter and hope that sales...
Taiwan LCD driver IC suppliers striving to win touch controller orders from China white-box market
Oct 2, 15:02
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC companies are striving to win orders for touch controller chips from China's second- and third-tier white-box smartphone and tablet brands as a means to...
Novatek looks to higher than expected sales, profits in 3Q12
Sep 25, 15:45
LCD driver IC vendor Novatek Microelectronics is expected to post better-than-expected revenues and profits in the third quarter of 2012, buoyed by booming sales of smartphones and...
WVGA driver IC shipments rising
Sep 24, 10:23
China-based handset makers have been pushing the adoption of WVGA displays for their entry-level to mid-range smartphones, offering ample opportunities for Taiwan's IC design houses...
LCD driver IC firms looks to strong sales in 3Q12
Sep 11, 14:46
LCD driver IC suppliers Novatek Microelectronics, ILI Technology (Ilitek), Orise Technology and Sitronix Technology all saw their August sales hit the highest monthly levels in recent...
Novatek reports nearly 10% sequential revenue gains for August
Newswatch - Sep 7, 10:31
LCD driver IC maker Novatek Microelectronics has announced revenues of NT$3.46 billion (US$115.72 million) for August 2012, up 9.6% on month and 14.2% on year. For the first eight...
Novatek, Himax developing programmable Gamma buffer solutions
Aug 31, 01:35
IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies have ventured into the development of programmable Gamma buffer solutions, with Himax beginning volume production...
LCD driver IC designers look to 5-15% revenue growth in 3Q12
Aug 29, 15:23
LCD driver IC design houses ILI Technology (Ilitech), Novatek Microelectronics, Sitronix Technology and Orise Technology are expected to see a 5-15% sequential revenue growth in the...
Taiwan LCD driver IC firms growing presence in China
Aug 24, 15:31
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC suppliers including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies, ILi Technology (Ilitek), Orise Technology and Sitronix Technology have all strengthened...
Raydium seeks to merge with Novatek, says paper
Newswatch - Aug 24, 13:57
LCD driver IC vendor Raydium Semiconductor is reportedly in talks with fellow company Novatek Microelectronics for a possible merger through a share swap, according to a Chinese-language...
Himax, Novatek step into eDP LCD driver ICs
Aug 22, 01:50
LCD driver IC design houses Himax Technology and Novatek Microelectronics, viewing that eDP (embedded DisplayPort) interface is replacing LVDS, have been stepped into developing eDP...
Driver ICs for tablets to drive revenue growth at Novatek, Himax, say sources
Aug 15, 13:58
LCD driver ICs are expected to become a growth driver for IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies in the third quarter of 2012, according to industry sourc...
Digitimes Research: Shipments of Taiwan's LCD driver ICs expand over 13% on quarter in 2Q12
Aug 8, 15:25
Shipments of LCD driver ICs by Taiwan-based IC design houses reached NT$18.83 billion (US$628.5 million) in the second quarter of 2012, up 13.5% sequentially and 2.8% on year, according...
Novatek expects over 10% sequential growth in 3Q12 revenues
Aug 8, 01:25
LCD driver IC design house Novatek Microelectronics expects its revenues for the third quarter of 2012 to increase over 10% on quarter, company president Steve Wang said at an August...
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
LED | 1h 4min ago
Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
IT + CE | 1h 6min ago
Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
IT + CE | 1h 11min ago
Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
Bits + chips | 1h 33min ago
Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
Bits + chips | 1h 34min ago
Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
Displays | 2h 31min ago
LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
LED | 2h 41min ago
Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
Displays | 2h 47min ago
GSEO sees profits in 2012
Before Going to Press | 1h 27min ago
Acer positions Gateway and Packard Bell as mid-range/entry-level brands
Before Going to Press | 1h 45min ago
IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
Before Going to Press | 2h 49min ago
Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
Before Going to Press | 3h 15min ago
Innolux expects slowdown in TV panel shipments
Before Going to Press | 4h 12min ago
HTC to continue supplying HTC Butterfly after launch of HTC Butterfly S
Before Going to Press | 4h 20min ago
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Open cell business model is a threat to BLU makers, says Radiant chairman
- 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
- Taiwan panel makers see increased orders for 5-inch qHD panels from China telecom operators
- Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
- JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
- MediaTek allocating more resources for development of tablet solutions
- China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
- Tablet IC sales to soar in 2013, says IC Insights
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- DRAM supply shortage to extend through 2015, says Inotera executive
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- 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
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
- Analog IC vendors to see orders rebound in 2H13
- Sean Maloney joins SMIC as independent non-executive director
- Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
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- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
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- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- 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
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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...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.