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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.
Monday 24 April 2023
Different chip segments vary in inventory depletion speed
Inventory depletion paces vary with different supply chains, with panel, notebook, motherboards and graphic card sectors taking the lead to bottom out while memory and handset IC...
Monday 24 April 2023
Taiwan IC designers to gain ground in AI chips with low power and latency, says Skymizer CEO
AI chips are not only used in large cloud computing but also increasingly applied to terminal consumer products, providing great business opportunities for Taiwan IC design houses...
Friday 21 April 2023
Recovery momentum for IC design houses hard to come by in 2H23
With TSMC revising its outlook for 2023 and voicing greater caution about inventory adjustments at its fabless customers, the prospect for Taiwan-based IC design houses to see a pick-up...
Thursday 20 April 2023
How can Taiwan keep its semiconductor momentum going?
Himax CEO Jordan Wu noted at a forum concerning Taiwan's IC design that many Taiwanese IC design houses have been able to achieve profitability. But despite the profits, they are...
Tuesday 18 April 2023
EIH grows e-paper ecosystem to include BOE, MediaTek
E Ink Holdings (EIH), an e-paper solutions supplier, is actively expanding its e-paper application ecosystem to include panel vendor BOE Technology and IC design house MediaTek.
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Taiwan should seize growth potential presented by AI era, says Etron chair
Taiwan cannot afford to overlook the potential of AI-driven semiconductor growth, and 2024 is expected to be a big year of the growth, according to Nicky Lu, chairman of IC design...