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Wednesday 6 June 2012
Touch controller vendor Elan reports record high revenues for May
Touch controller IC vendor Elan Microelectronics saw its revenues hit a record high of NT$642.27 million (US$21.37 million) in May, representing an increase of 13.6% on month and...
Thursday 31 May 2012
Windows 8 launch to ramp up sales of controller ICs, ambient light sensors and proximity sensors
The launch of Windows 8 in the second half of 2012 is to bring increasing revenues for Taiwan-based IC design houses, and vendors such as Elan Microelectronics, Capella Microsystems,...
Wednesday 30 May 2012
IC design houses to report strong revenue growth for May
A number of Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to see their revenues hit records in May because the companies have a book-to-bill (B/B) ratio greater than 1.00 on average...
Friday 11 May 2012
Power outage at MagnaChip causes shipment delays
Recent power outages at specialty IC foundry MagnaChip Semiconductor have caused delivery delays. Companies affected by the event include Sonix Technology, Elan Microelectronics,...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Elan becomes leading provider of Windows 8-based touch ICs
Taiwan-based IC design house Elan Microelectronics has offered fourth-generation touch IC solutions featuring an integrated power management, DSP and MCU solution and has won increasing...
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Consumer IC designers likely to see 2Q12 sales grow over 20%
Taiwan-based consumer IC design specialists including Elan Microelectronics, Generalplus Technology, Holtek Semiconductor, Nuvoton Technology, Sonix Technology and Weltrend Semiconductor...
Friday 17 February 2012
Elan, Holtek expect revenue boost in 2Q12
IC design houses Elan Microelectronics and Holtek Semiconductor expect to post higher revenue growth in the second quarter of 2012, buoyed by a pickup in demand coming from the consumer...
Friday 6 January 2012
Apple to pay Elan US$5 million in patent lawsuit settlement
IC design house Elan Microelectronics has issued a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) disclosing it has settled a patent infringement dispute with Apple.
Monday 2 January 2012
Foxconn makes new invesments in driver IC design house
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced that four of its investment companies have invested a total of NT$585 million (US$19.31 million) to take up new shares...
Thursday 20 October 2011
China demand for small- to medium-size driver ICs, touch controllers rising
Owing to strong sales during the recently concluded October national holidays, China-based branded and white-box smartphone vendors have begun to build up inventory for IC parts,...
Monday 1 August 2011
Consumer IC vendors look to flat performance in 3Q11
Although most Taiwan-based consumer IC design houses posted strong revenue gains in the second quarter of 2011 thanks to short lead-time MCU orders amid reports of possible short...
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Elan aims for 18-20% share of notebook touch controller IC market in 2011
Elan Microelectronics expects to ship four million touch controller ICs for notebook applications in August and total shipments of such ICs in 2011 to account for 18-20% of the global...
Monday 25 July 2011
IC solution vendors landing more orders for entry-level smartphones and tablet PCs
As the entry-level to mid-range smartphones are expected to serve as killer applications in the device market in the second half of 2011 as well as in 2012, a number of Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 28 June 2011
White-box players supply close to 20% of global tablet PC shipments in 1Q11
White-box tablet PC players are rising quickly in the tablet PC industry with related shipments already accounting for close to 20% of global tablet PC shipments in the first quarter...
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Taiwan-based IC designers accelerating development of touch controllers
Taiwan-based IC design houses are accelerating their development of touch controller ICs for related smartphone and tablet PC applications which may result in explosive growth in...