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Monday 23 March 2020
5G chip vendors mulling price cuts
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, market watchers remain upbeat about the market for 5G mobile chips in 2020. Nevertheless, major chip suppliers have been mulling reducing prices...
Tuesday 14 January 2020
ASMedia remains major chipset partner of AMD
ASMedia Technology has reportedly secured orders for AMD's 500- and 600-series chipsets, which will buoy the Taiwan-based chipmaker's sales performance in 2020 and 2021, according...
Wednesday 8 January 2020
Samsung, Huawei use own APs in more of their smartphones
Leading smartphone brands Samsung and Huawei are ramping up consumption of their own application processor solutions in their products, causing market share to shift away from top...
Wednesday 8 January 2020
MediaTek intros mid-range 7nm 5G mobile SoC
MediaTek has introduced its Dimensity 800 series, a new 7nm SoC designed for mid-range 5G smartphones slated for launch later in the first half of 2020.
Thursday 5 December 2019
Taiwanese IC designers seeking closer partnerships with Chinese foundries
More Taiwan-based IC design houses are moving to strengthen partnerships with foundries in China so as to land more orders from Chinese brand vendors seeking to cut reliance on US...
Wednesday 27 November 2019
MediaTek intros new-gen 5G SoC
MediaTek held a press conference on November 26 to introduce the new generation of its 5G SoC chips, with guests including TSMC VP Lora Ho, a number of high-ranking executives from...
Tuesday 12 November 2019
TWS earbud chip prices fall below US$1.50
Unit prices for SoC chips used in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have fallen below US$1.50 recently, down from US$2.50-3 in the first quarter of 2019, amid growing presence of...
Thursday 7 November 2019
Silicon Motion eyeing bigger share in SSD controller market
NAND flash controller supplier Silicon Motion Technology expects its share of the global SSD controller segment to reach 40% over the next three years, up from the current 30%, according...
Thursday 7 November 2019
IC designers expect Huawei to resume order momentum in 1H20
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders from Huawei slow down recently, but remain upbeat that orders from the Chinese vendor will start picking up in the first half of 2020,...
Tuesday 22 October 2019
Unisoc set to raise new funds to support 5G, IoT chips development
Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking arm Unisoc will enforce a capital increment of CNY5 billion (US$707.44 million) to support its development of core 5G and IoT chipsets, according to...
Monday 7 October 2019
Chinese drive to de-Americanize supply chain seen as black swan for 5G chips market
China's de-Americanization campaign, a move aimed at cutting reliance on the US suppliers of crucial semiconductor components and technologies, has emerged as the largest black swan...
Thursday 26 September 2019
ALi names new president
Set-top box (STB) chipset specialist ALi Tech has appointed Max Chen, an executive at MediaTek, as new president with the appointment to become effective on October 1.
Monday 9 September 2019
5G chipset solution prices likely to drop significantly in 2H19
Chipset suppliers, including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Unisoc Technologies, are facing increasing pressure to slash prices of their 5G solutions in order to make a preemptive presence...
Monday 5 August 2019
AMD to see DIY PC market share hit 10-year high of over 30% by end-2019
AMD has seen growing adoption of its new-generation 7nm chips including Ryzen 3000 seies processors and Radeon 5700 series GPUs by makers of PCs, motherboards and graphic cards as...
Friday 26 July 2019
Huawei sharply boosts adoption ratio of in-house mobile SoCs
Huawei is expected to have 60% of its phones powered by Hisilicon's APs in the second half of 2019, compared with 45% in the first half of the year and less than 40% in the second...