IC design houses are bracing for a particularly weak third-quarter 2022 while also having difficulty negotiating lower foundry quotes, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Despite chip demand for consumer electronics showing no signs of recovery, vendors of quite a few chip segments such as server ICs, automotive chips, high-speed transmission ICs,...
Chinese handset vendor Xiaomi recently has deepened its in-house chip development by investing in a new semiconductor company, sparking market speculation that Xiaomi may renew development...
SEMI, Foxconn Technology and UMC have jointly released the SEMI Auto IC Master program designed to provide complete automotive chip solutions through effective and close partnerships...
Holtek Semiconductor plans to drop prices for part of its MCUs by less than 10%, and expects the second half of 2022 to be particularly weak for the consumer electronic sector.
The Paris-based French company, Intento Design, has secured a third round of investment to accelerate its international and commercial deployment on June 22, 2022. Intento Design...
Speculation has been circulating in China's chipmaking sector that NXP Semiconductors is about to cease its Advanced Power Systems (APS) R&D operations in China. The move could...
LED driver IC design house Macroblock has expressed caution about its sales prospects for the second half of 2022 due to excess inventories for general offerings held by its customers,...
TSMC and other major Taiwan-based foundries have been running their fabs at full capacity utilization, but may see their fab utilization rates drop in the third quarter due to cutbacks...
Many IC design houses, particularly those engaged in the consumer electronics sector, have moved to adjust their wafer starts at foundries amid concerns about a potentially weak third...
IC design houses are negotiating with upstream foundries about their wafer starts between the end of 2022 and early 2023, but are finding it difficult to plan, according to industry...
Realtek Semiconductor and other Taiwan-based PC-related chip suppliers are pinning their hopes on commercial notebooks despite growing uncertainty in the overall notebook sales this...
Chinese handset vendors Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi continue to strengthen in-house development of chipsets for greater product differentiation, and they are moving to expand the penetration...
As a whole, the notebook market has seen a reversal in demand, with consumer models bearing the brunt of sales downturn. Shipments of education-use Chromebooks, which played a pioneering...
