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Wednesday 22 January 2020
Nuvoton joins AWS partner network
Nuvoton Technology has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network to provide reference designs for IoT devices, according to the Taiwan-based MCU specialist.
Tuesday 10 December 2019
Nuvoton braces for impact from acquiring loss-making business from Panasonic
Acquiring Panasonic's loss-making semiconductor business will have a negative impact on Nuvoton Technology's profitability in the short term, and it may take time for the business...
Friday 29 November 2019
Nuvoton to buy Panasonic chip unit
Panasonic has agreed to sell its semiconductor business to Nuvoton Technology, a Taiwan-based MCU specialist majority owned by memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics.
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Chip demand for TWS devices to surge sharply in 2020
Global shipments of TWS (true wireless stereo) earphones are expected to surge sharply to 150-200 million sets in 2020 from around 100 million sets estimated for 2019, providing strong...
Tuesday 29 October 2019
MCU firm Holtek sees orders pick up
Holtek Semiconductor has seen orders start picking up from several IC distributors following China's October 1 National Day holiday, with order visibility extended through the first...
Friday 18 October 2019
MCU maker Holtek releases AI chip solution
Taiwan-based Holtek Semiconductor has developed its first AI chip solution to tap smart living application opportunities and has also launched a spate of new MCU products for automotive,...
Friday 30 August 2019
GigaDevice develops RISC-V MCU
China-based GigaDevice Semiconductor has unveiled what the company claims is the world's first 32-bit general-purpose MCU based on RISC-V architecture, with the product samples and...
Friday 23 August 2019
8-inch fab utilization rates may not rebound until 2020
Eight-inch fab utilization rates continue to fall on weak demand for automotive and consumer ICs and are unlikely to rebound until the first half of 2020, according to industry sou...
Thursday 15 August 2019
MCU market to regain growth after 2019 slump, says IC Insights
After reaching record-high sales in the last two years, the microcontroller (MCU) market slid lower in the first half of 2019 because of overall weakness in electronic systems, a...
Tuesday 30 July 2019
MCU maker Holtek sees most Q319 orders entail short lead time
MCU specialist Holtek Semiconductor has seen mostly short-lead time orders in the third quarter amid impacts of the US-China trade war, and expects to post a slight revenue decrease...
Tuesday 30 July 2019
Nuvoton posts profit surge in 2Q19
MCU specialist Nuvoton Technology saw its net profit surge nearly 500% sequentially to NT$183 million (US$5.9 million) in the second quarter, with EPS reaching NT$0.88.
Thursday 16 May 2019
Microcontroller market growth drops to nearly zero in 2019, says IHS
Following two years of expansion, the global microcontroller (MCU) market is set to stall in 2019 because of a combination of factors including a downturn in the wider electronics...
Thursday 2 May 2019
Holtek to see MCU shipments driven by robust demand for Bluetooth headsets
Microcontroller unit specialist Holtek Semiconductor is expected to see its 32-bit MCU shipments for wireless Bluetooth headsets surge and likely hit the five million mark in 2019,...
Thursday 18 April 2019
Renesas migration to fab-lite model to benefit Taiwan OSAT firms
Renesas is reportedly moving toward a fab-lite business model by temporarily shutting down some frontend and backend fabs, with its Taiwan-based OSAT partners including ASE, Ardentec,...
Wednesday 10 April 2019
Eight-inch fab utilization rates picking up
IC foundries have seen their 8-inch fab utilization rates pick up recently, driven by a pull-in of orders for IoT and automotive electronics applications, according to sources at...