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Friday 24 June 2011
MediaTek 3Q11 revenues expected to grow 15%
Fabless IC firm MediaTek's third-quarter revenues are expected to reach between NT$24 billion (US$830 million) and NT$27 billion, up at least 15% on quarter, according to market sources...
Thursday 23 June 2011
SPIL concerned about client overbooking, cautious about 3Q11
The Japan disaster in March prompted IDM and fabless companies to overbook chips, but the inventory build-up has not been consumed due to a slow second quarter, according to Bough...
Monday 13 June 2011
China fabless market set to double by 2015, says IHS iSuppli
Driven by strong domestic demand and soaring exports, China's fabless semiconductor market is on a high-growth trajectory with revenues set to double from 2010 to 2015, according...
Thursday 9 June 2011
MediaTek May sales decline over 10% sequentially
Fabless IC firm MediaTek has reported NT$6.59 billion (US$230 million) in consolidated revenues for May 2011, down 13.5% on month. Consolidated revenues for the first five months...
Friday 13 May 2011
Fabless IC firm Sonix expects 50% growth in 2Q11 revenues
Sonic Technology, which designs and develops consumer-oriented ICs such as microcontrollers (MCUs), webcam chips and voice ICs, has projected that revenues will climb almost 50% sequentially...
Thursday 5 May 2011
Ralink 2Q11 shipments to rise over 20% sequentially
Fabless IC firm Ralink Technology expects its shipments including WLAN and xDSL chips to top 36 million units in the second quarter of 2011, up more than 20% from the 29.9 million...
Monday 25 April 2011
IC Insights lists top-20 fabless IC suppliers in 2010
The top 20 fabless IC firms represented 77% of the US$59.9 billion worldwide fabless IC sales in 2010, down 2pp from 2009, according to IC Insights.
Thursday 31 March 2011
Himax reportedly cuts into Dell supply chain
Fabless IC firm Himax Imaging reportedly has landed orders for CMOS image sensors for use in Dell notebooks, and has also cut into the supply chain of China handset brands including...
Thursday 24 March 2011
Richtek dismisses acquisition rumors
Analog IC design house Richtek Technology has dismissed a recent Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report indicating it is looking to acquire Capella Microsystems,...
Thursday 10 February 2011
Maxtek to distribute MStar products in 2Q11
Maxtek Technology will begin to ship MStar Semiconductor's chipsets for set-top boxes (STBs) to networking customers in the second quarter of 2011, and shipments will expand substantially...
Friday 14 January 2011
TSMC first pure-play foundry to join top-10 R&D spenders, says IC Insights
The now well known trend of IC manufacturers abandoning the IDM fab business model to become fabless or fab-lite has resulted in, or is the result of, depending on the point of view,...
Wednesday 22 December 2010
Thirteen fabless IC suppliers 2010 sales top US$1 billion, says IC Insights
There are 13 fabless IC companies expected to register more than US$1 billion in sales this year, compared to 10 companies in 2009 and eight in 2008, according to IC Insights.
Friday 15 October 2010
Memory IC designer Chingis to list on Taiwan emerging stock market
Chingis Technology, a fabless chipmaker of embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions, will list on Taiwan's emerging stock market on October 29. The company mainly supplies 4Mb...
Monday 30 August 2010
Lantiq offers new solutions for digital home and NGN
Lantiq, the spin-off of Infineon's former wireline chip unit, has announced the latest of its 802.11n WLAN solutions with an integrated processor, a low-power VDSL2 chipset built...
Tuesday 13 July 2010
MediaTek backs Android with lineup of handset solutions
Fabless chip designer MediaTek has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) to support the Android mobile device platform developed by Google, according to a company announcement.