Pure-play foundries are looking for ways to keep their fab utilization rates high, such as providing more warehouse space for fabless clients - functioning as a "wafer bank", according...
Network IC specialist Realtek Semiconductor has reported revenue fell 9.8% sequentially and 20.6% on year to a 21-month low of NT$7.3 billion (US$239.3 million) in November 2022.
With foundries seeing a drop in capacity utilization rates, fabless chip clients expect foundries, particularly second- and third-tier ones, to become less firm on their contract...
With the demand slowdown worsening in China, many Taiwan-based IC design houses are cautious about their market prospects for 2023, according to sources at foundries.
Canada-based GaN Systems, which specializes in gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors, is teaming up with first-tier foundries, OSATs, and IDMs to seize opportunities in emerging...
Display driver IC specialist FocalTech Systems swung to net loss of NT$2.77 billion (US$88.8 million) in the third quarter of 2022 from profits in the prior quarter and a year ago,...
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...
Generalplus Technology continues to see its 32-bit MCU shipments ramp up despite a slowdown in shipments of its consumer MCU offerings, according to the fabless chipmaker.
Display driver IC specialist Fitipower Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, has enjoyed a pull-in of short lead-time orders for TVs to support its sales performance...
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...
Display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists are finding their warehouses filled with "wafer bank" inventories from fabless chipmaker customers that are keeping their inventory at...
Fabless chipmakers expect inventories held by customers to improve significantly between the end of 2022 and first quarter of 2023, but are increasingly concerned about replenishment...
