TSMC plans a 10-20% price hike for its 8-inch foundry services, with the new prices to be effective starting the third quarter of 2022, according to sources at IC design houses.
Taiwan-based IC design houses are striving to reach long-term supply agreements with their notebook customers to support the order commitments required by their foundry partners,...
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has managed to negotiate higher quotes for a new, long-term agreement (LTA) it struck with Samsung Electronics, according to sources...
China-based smartphone brands are expected to flood non-Chinese handset markets with entry-level to mid-range 5G models in 2022 in hopes to improve their sales amid weakening smartphone...
Despite growing concerns about oversupply, Taiwan-based IC design houses continue to vie for the available 28nm process capacity at foundries to fill orders through next year, according...
With pandemic-induced stay-at-home economy gradually subsiding, IC designers are seeing their shipments for consumer electronics return to traditional sales pattern in the first quarter...
TSMC and its fellow Taiwan-based pure-play foundries are expected to see their combined global market share top 70%, when their additional fab capacities come online, according to...
Notebook upgrades will be stimulating demand for high-end ICs in 2022 despite the overall less-significant notebook shipment growth anticipated for this year, according to sources...
Touchscreen control IC specialist Elan Microelectronics has announced plans to invest in Chimei Motor Electronics, looking to jointly explore lucrative business opportunities for...
IC design house Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenues of between NT$35.8 billion (US$1.28 billion) and NT$36.8 billion for the first quarter of 2022, compared with the...
Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider partnering mainly with United Microelectronics (UMC), saw its monthly revenue exceed NT$1 billion (US$35.9...
Demand for IC design services will continue to outweigh the supply (at least in the first half of 2022), while shipment prospects for the second half of the year will become clearer...
Taiwan's IC design houses with strong backgrounds have all managed to obtain sufficient foundry support, which will drive further their sales growth in 2022 after helping them score...
