Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers have enhanced their efforts to develop high-end chips such as mobile application processors (AP), OLED display driver ICs (DDI), ASICs, wireless communication...
Taiwan-based IC design houses expect the current industry downturn to hit bottom in the first quarter of 2023, and a substantial recovery is not to come until the year's second hal...
MediaTek and Qualcomm will have to think more about whether to follow in the footsteps of Apple to have their mobile SoCs fabricated by TSMC using 3nm process technology in 2023,...
Major US cloud service providers (CSP) are moving to postpone or adjust their datacenter expansion projects, while enterprises and telecom operators also continue capex cuts, clouding...
Former managing director of Google Taiwan Lee-Feng Chien described 2022 as a year when AI development took a great leap forward. Having counseled many startups, Chien also observed...
For the past 1-2 months, IC design houses have been discussing with foundries about the prices and order scales of 2023, but despite weak end-user demand, most IC design houses have...
Taiwan-based IC design houses have been cooperating to develop AI-based IC solutions related to image processing, according to industry sources, in order to address the large demand...
Facing the semiconductor demand downturn, no IC design house is spared, regardless of scale. Unlike major industry leaders with massive amounts of resources and price negotiation...
With Samsung Electronics likely to adjust downward its smartphone sales goal for 2023, Oppo, Vivo and other China-based brand vendors are also expected to see their Android smartphone...
Global EDA leader Synopsys is eyeing Vietnam as a potential powerhouse of global IC design industry. In August 2022, Synopsys signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vietnam's...
Mediatek, Novatek, and Realtek, Taiwan's three major IC design houses, all remain conservative in their 2023 outlook, since the overall visibility is not clear. What is clear is that...
Zen Semiconductor (Zensemi) recently broke ground for its new 12-inch fabrication line for MEMS sensors, and other specialty sensors and chips, according to industry sources in Chi...
International semiconductor players are enforcing layoffs and other drastic control measures amid lingering market headwinds, but Taiwan's IC design houses are taking a wait-and-see...
Taiwan-based IC-design houses continue to see clear order visibility for automotive chips although prospects for other chips for mass-market applications remain dull.
In a recent TrendForce ranking of global top ten IC design houses, one can see that semiconductor sectoral performances vary greatly, even though the industry in general is going...