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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Consumer 8-bit MCU inventories remain high, with the chip prices set to fall throughout the first half of next year, according to sources at IC design houses and distributors.
IC design houses have failed to negotiate lower foundry quotes for the first half of 2023 with TSMC and United Microelectronics (UMC), as the former foundry maintains its plan for...
IC design house MediaTek expects to post another sequential decline in fourth-quarter revenue, with revenue for all of 2022 likely to fall short of its target of 17-19% growth.
Many Taiwan-based IC design houses have paid visits to China recently to meet their local customers, as fabless firms strive to secure order commitments amid demand growth worries,...
Taiwan's IC design houses are spending more resources and efforts on developing AI-related applications to strengthen their competitiveness. They are keen on incorporating AI algorithms...
IC design houses will still be trapped by high inventory levels in the fourth quarter of 2022, as replenishment demand from customers remains slow, according to industry sources.
Inventory correction for Android smartphones may come to an end later in the fourth quarter, but the market outlook for 2023 remains vague, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC...
