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Monday 17 April 2023
IC design houses post impressive revenue results for 1Q23
Taiwan's IC design houses managed to end the first quarter of 2023 with impressive revenue performances, bolstered by larger-than-expected replenishment orders and shipments, but...
Friday 14 April 2023
IC Design competition: Taiwan vs China
A recent DIGITIMES Research report shows that China has more IC design companies with revenue exceeding $100 million than Taiwan. While the difference in the number of papers presented...
Friday 14 April 2023
Prosperity and crisis for Taiwan's IC design industry
During the Asia Economic Dialogue held in India, Ajit Manocha, the President of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), expressed his belief that the semiconductor...
Friday 14 April 2023
TSMC still mulling raising foundry quotes in 2H23, sources say
TSMC has revised the company's blueprint for capacity expansion, reducing its scale and slowing down its pace. However, the pure-play foundry is still evaluating the feasibility of...
Thursday 13 April 2023
ESMT sees memory KGD shipments pick up
Niche-market memory IC design house Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) started seeing shipments of memory known-good dies (KGD) pick up in March, which the company views...
Tuesday 11 April 2023
Taiwan IC design firms threatened by China's attempt to build its own IC standards
China is looking to develop its own IC standard specs, which Taiwan-based IC design firms perceive as a challenge.
Tuesday 11 April 2023
MediaTek sees 1Q23 revenue fall within guidance
IC design house MediaTek has reported revenue of NT$95.65 billion (US$3.14 billion) for the first quarter of 2023, just slightly above the low-end target of the company's guidance...
Thursday 6 April 2023
IC designers can hardly expect foundry partners to cut quotes soon
It remains one of the major market concerns as to when IC designers can see their manufacturing costs move downward, but one thing for sure is that their foundry partners in Taiwan...
Thursday 6 April 2023
Exclusive interview with MediaTek chairman Tsai Ming-kai

2002's National System-on-Chip Project pushed IC design to become a NT$1 trillion dollar industry; changes now urgently require policy solutions

Friday 31 March 2023
ITE Tech sees PC customers start replenishing inventory
Taiwan-based IC design house ITE Tech said its PC customers are starting to replenish inventory, especially inventory for Chromebook and gaming models.
Thursday 30 March 2023
Chinese IC design industry leaders weigh options after US sanctions
At the annual China IC Leadership Summit held on March 30, Wayne Dai, founder and CEO of Chinese IC design house VeriSilicon, observed that chiplet development in China is basically...
Thursday 30 March 2023
Structural advantages key to Taiwan IC industry development in next decade, says DIGITIMES president
Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing sector boasts structural advantages in its next decade of development, but the advantages for its IC design sector are likely to change, according...
Thursday 30 March 2023
AI a future driver of IC market growth, says Etron chair
Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a major application driving the growth of the global semiconductor market, according to Nicky Lu, chairman of IC design house Etron Technology...
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Solutions to talent shortage in Taiwan highlighted at IC design event
Talent shortage has been a big headache to global semiconductor companies and may push them into a long-term scramble for professionals. How to tackle the issue became a core topic...
Wednesday 29 March 2023
MediaTek chair urges government to focus incentives on talent shortages, tech challenges
MediaTek chairman Tsai Ming-kai urged the Taiwan government to focus its incentives on overcoming challenges such as talent shortages and severe technological competition in the local...