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Friday 19 May 2023
Chipmakers see replenishment demand for gaming devices
Although most Taiwan-based IC design houses are conservative about their business prospects for the second half of 2023, they have landed rush chip orders for gaming device applications,...
Thursday 18 May 2023
IC design houses may see flat performance for peak season this year
Most IC design houses and even the entire semiconductor supply chain previously expected business performances to improve quarter by quarter after hitting the bottom in first-quarter...
Wednesday 17 May 2023
Memory demand poised to recover, says Etron chairman
The memory market has been showing signs of improvement and is anticipated to fully recover by the end of this year, according to Nicky Lu, chairman of memory IC design house Etron...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
IC design houses have diverse perspectives on China demand
While smartphone-related IC design houses continue to see sluggish demand from China and are generally bleak about market prospects for the rest of the year, other chip suppliers...
Monday 15 May 2023
Qualcomm, MediaTek show mixed sentiments about Oppo disbanding IC design unit
China's leading smartphone maker Oppo has just abruptly disbanded its chip design subsidiary, Zeku, sending shockwaves through the mobile phone supply chain and indicating the company...
Friday 5 May 2023
WinWay to open new probe card plant in May
WinWay Technology is scheduled to hold an inauguration ceremony for its new probe card plant in southern Taiwan at the end of May, according to the IC test interface solutions prov...
Thursday 4 May 2023
Taiwan IC design houses eye LLM opportunities
The rapid deployment of large language models (LLM) is fueling the overall AI trend. After witnessing the growth of LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Taiwan-based IC design houses...
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Taiwan IC designers little interested in charging pile chip solutions
Taiwan's major IC design houses have shown little interest in developing chip solutions for charging piles, due mainly to the relatively smaller market scale for the chip segment...
Friday 28 April 2023
MediaTek met all financial predictions for 1Q23; inventory clearance remains biggest challenge
Taiwanese IC design house leader MediaTek announced its complete financial results for 1Q23. Revenue reached NT$95.652 billion (US$3.11 billion), an 11.6% quarterly decrease and a...
Thursday 27 April 2023
TI sees market uncertainties for all applications except automotive
Leading analog IC vendor Texas Instruments (TI) has seen its overall financial results for first-quarter 2023 meet its original financial guidance, but its observation is that macro...
Wednesday 26 April 2023
TSMC, GF strike new contracts with car vendors
TSMC and GlobalFoundries have both struck long-term contracts with car vendors.
Tuesday 25 April 2023
Foundries experience order cuts from automotive IC design houses
China- and Taiwan-based foundries have experienced cutbacks in automotive IC orders from not only their domestic fabless chipmakers but also customers in the US and Japan during the...
Tuesday 25 April 2023
Chromebook, gaming notebook demand picking up, says IC design houses
Peripheral IC demand for Chromebooks and gaming notebooks have picked up since the first quarter of this year, according to sources at IC design houses.
Tuesday 25 April 2023
TSMC lands advanced chip orders shifted from China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has gained advanced chip orders shifted from Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and other China-based foundries, which...
Monday 24 April 2023
IC design houses say visibility for 2H23 still unclear
Order visibility for the traditional peak season in the second half of this year is still unclear going into the second quarter, according to a number of IC design houses.
CHT
Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research