Taiwan-based IC design houses, led by MediaTek, are expected to enjoy a particularly strong fourth-quarter 2020, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic causing delays of new product launches,...
Most IC suppliers experienced weaker demand and generally poor sales results in the first half of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and strained US-China trade relations. However,...
Display driver IC specialist Himax Technologies expects to post an around 20% revenue increase sequentially in the third quarter of 2020, with flat growth or a slight decrease in...
Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), which runs only 8-inch wafer fabrication lines, has already seen its supply fall short of demand with order visibility...
TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$11.2 billion and US$11.5 billion in the third quarter of 2020, which is a 9.3% sequential increase at the midpoint. Gross margin and operating...
Market watchers are generally optimistic about TSMC's sales performance in the third quarter and all of 2020, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and tougher US sanctions against...
MediaTek has reported consolidated revenue climbed 11.1% sequentially to a 14-quarter high of NT$67.6 billion (US$2.3 billion) in the second quarter of 2020. The results beat its...
TSMC saw its June revenue climb to a record high of NT$120.88 billion (US$4.1 billion), rising 28.8% sequentially and 40.8% on year. Revenue for the first half of the year totaled...
Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) both saw their consolidated revenues hit record-high levels of NT$44.39 billion (US$1.51...
TSMC and other pure-play foundries have seen their mature process capacity utilization rates decline, due mainly to a substantial cutback in orders for automotive electronics applications,...
IC Insights has compiled a list of semiconductor companies that have provided their sales guidance for the second quarter of 2020. Collectively, the 21 companies on the list anticipate...
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has revised upward its capex outlook this year to US$4.3 billion, up US$1.1 billion or about 34% from...
