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...

TSMC is tightening up its payment terms for better cash flow and greater stability, according to industry sources.

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...

The supply of server-use power management ICs remains tight, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

TSMC and other chipmakers have seen no cutback in orders for datacenter applications, despite market concerns raised recently about Meta Platforms' and Google's potential capex cuts,...

IC design talent poaching in Taiwan has changed drastically, with US and European firms replacing Chinese ones as major rivals in headhunting, according to industry sources.

Eyeing promising demand for AIoT device applications, IDMs and IC design houses are entering long-term cooperation to grow related ecosystems highlighting AI-based edge computing...

Global semiconductor and IT suppliers have raked in unprecedented revenue growths, thanks to COVID-driven stay-at-home economy. However, the reveling seems to be drawing to an end,...

Taiwan-based IC design houses particularly LCD driver IC firms continue to see their China-based handset clients decelerate their pace of orders, bracing for a potential cutback in...

China, the world's leading consumer of semiconductors, is undergoing a third semiconductor shift in tandem with the development of 5G, consumer electronics, and AI. Owing to the shift...