Founded in 2014 as an IC design startup in China's southeast port city of Xiamen, InMicro Technology has made its name as a dedicated developer and designer of a series of digital-analog...
Defying slack demand from smartphone and the impact of the US-China trade war, foundry houses in Taiwan and China are rushing to expand capacities at their 8-inch wafer fabs seeking...
Total fab equipment spending in 2019 is projected to drop 8%, a sharp reversal from the previously forecast increase of 7% as fab investment growth has been revised downward for 2018...
Order visibility for the pure-play IC foundry sector for the first half of 2019 appears to be low. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started negotiating with its...
Taiwan-based major MCU makers including Holtek Semiconductor expect their shipments for the fourth quarter of 2018 to be affected by the uncertainty in terminal market demand amid...
A pull-in of short lead-time orders for TVs and set-top boxes is set to buoy revenues at Taiwan-based IC design houses in September, according to industry sources.
NXP Semiconductors has gone through several periods of restructuring since its departure from Philips, followed by privatization, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve Owen, executive...
Eight-inch foundries have seen their fab utilization rates remain high in the third quarter of 2018, but orders from customers have shown signs of a slowdown amid concerns about end...
Macronix International has announced that Renesas Electronics has implemented dedicated octa peripheral interface to support Macronix memory devices with serial multi I/O. Among these...
Taiwan-based MCU supplier Nuvoton Technology has reported net profits of NT$261 million (US$8.53 million) on revenues of NT$2.68 billion for the second quarter of 2018. Both results...
Global tech supply chains have seen overwhelming price hikes in 2018, ranging from DRAM, silicon wafer, and passive components to discrete devices MOSFET, diode, as MCU, as well as...
MediaTek has completed validation (interoperability tests) of NarrowBand IoT connectivity (NB-IoT) with SoftBank to set the stage for future commercial NB-IoT applications within...
When you look at any electronic engineering magazine these days there is certainly never a shortage of articles to read that relate in some way or other to the Internet of Things...
Global shipments of smart speakers and other voice-activated smart home devices by brand vendors are expected to double in 2018 from 2017, drastically driving up demand for related...
