IC demand for handsets is expected to pick up in August buoyed by an influx of orders from China, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses.
Prices for 4G smartphone chip solutions, which have fallen about 40% so far in 2015, will continue their downward trend in the second half of the year. Prices will fall an overall...
Prices for 8-core handset chips are set to fall below US$10 in 2015 while those for quad-core chips will slip to US$5, as chipmakers start a price war, according to industry sources...
Handset IC suppliers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Spreadtrum tend to lower prices to win orders from their major clients, which may negatively affect their gross margin performance...
Handset solution vendors are preparing to launch next-generation 4G chipsets in the first half of 2015 with prices likely to be 30% cheaper than current models, heralding keen competition...
Handset chip vendors including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Broadcom are reportedly set to roll out 64-bit quad-core solutions for smartphones during the first half of 2014, according to...
With Qualcomm and MediaTek becomig increasingly competitive in China's handset chip solution market, China-based IC design houses have been under strong pressure and may seek to merge...
MStar Semiconductor has announced pre-tax profits of NT$1.58 billion (US$52.71 million) for the second quarter of 2012, decreasing 6.1% from the previous quarter. Second-quarter EPS...
IC design house MediaTek, which specializes in low-cost handset solutions, is likely to set revenue growth guidance at 8-18% for the third quarter of 2012, according to market sources...
Shipments of handset solutions will drive revenue growth at MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor in the second half of 2012, and simultaneously buoy sales at their backend partners including...
MediaTek has launched MT5931, a SoC with integration of 802.11n Wi-Fi MAC, baseband, radio, embedded PU and power management unit. The chip also integrates several external components...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen its customers specializing in handset- and networking-related ICs step up their pace of orders, the Chinese-language Commercial...
