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Thursday 24 November 2022
AI-based EDA tools increasingly crucial for IC design process
With the increasing diversity of end-use applications, IC design houses are facing increasing challenges in product design, and how to shorten the time to market for new products...
Monday 21 November 2022
Tech-app integrators, system architects, business model innovators badly needed in Taiwan, says MediaTek
Three major categories of talent will be badly needed to support the future growth of Taiwan's semiconductor industry and accelerate the development of digital technology, according...
Monday 21 November 2022
IC design capability underpins Taiwan's AI power, according to Taiwan's digital affairs minister
At Taiwan AI Academy's annual event between November 18 - 19, Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs, Audrey Tang, pointed out that Taiwan has the advantage to design specialized chips...
Wednesday 16 November 2022
IC design talent unlikely to be axed despite downturn
With display driver IC (DDI) supplier FocalTech Systems announcing plans to lay off 10-15% of employees and reduce pays for all its senior executives, market concerns are rapidly...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
IC designers with parent support could better withstand headwinds
Vendors of consumer ICs are struggling against the bleakest-ever market sales, but those affiliated with major business groups or having good supply chain partners would more likely...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
AliCloud commercializes China's first homegrown cloud processor
China's top cloud service provider Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) has recently announced that its self-developed cloud-native processor Yitian 710 has entered large-scale commercial applications...
Monday 14 November 2022
TSMC ecosystem partners for IC design services stay unscathed amid headwinds
TSMC and its ecosystem partners in Taiwan, especially silicon IP and IC design services providers, remain able to embrace revenue gains for the fourth quarter and 2023, while most...
Thursday 10 November 2022
IC design service provider PGC upbeat about 2023
Progate Group Corporation (PGC), which is among TSMC's design ecosystem partners, has expressed optimism about its operations in 2023 and will start to trade its shares on the Taipei...
Wednesday 9 November 2022
IC design houses caught in dilemma over talent retention, tech R&D
Taiwan's IC designers are caught in a dilemma over whether to maitain talent and R&D momentum, or to maintain profitability amid the lingering market uncertainties, according...
Wednesday 9 November 2022
OSATs cautious in dealing with LTA violations by fabless clients
Taiwan's OSATs are increasingly cautious about whether or how to collect punitive payments from IC design houses violating capacity utilization agreements, as jointly tiding over...
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Fabless firms clearing inventories aggressively
Since the latter part of the third quarter, Taiwan-based IC design houses, including first-tier players, have become aggressive in clearing on-hand inventories by slashing orders...
Monday 7 November 2022
Alchip sees China-bound ASIC sales mildly affected by US trade ban
Taiwan-based Alchip Technologies, dedicated to supplying ASICs, expects the latest US restrictions on shipments of advanced chips to China to affect only 1-2% of its revenues, as...
Thursday 3 November 2022
SEMICON China Forum: Find ways out under US trade ban
High-profile semiconductor industry leaders in China recently gathered at the just-ended SEMICON China Executive Summit seeking to find ways out for China's future IC development...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
First-tier backend houses see falling capacity utilization rates
ASE Technology and other first-tier IC backend houses have seen their fab capacity utilization rates start loosening, as fabless clients have also begun to ask them to defer order...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Fabless chipmakers uncertain about replenishment demand
Fabless chipmakers expect inventories held by customers to improve significantly between the end of 2022 and first quarter of 2023, but are increasingly concerned about replenishment...
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