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Friday 11 May 2018
Driver IC firms vying for 8-inch foundry support
Thanks to strong rush orders from China smartphone makers, Taiwan-based suppliers of LCD driver ICs are all optimistic about revenue growths in the second quarter of 2018, but their...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Holtek to see 2Q18 wireless charger MCU shipments double
Taiwan's major MCU supplier Holtek Semiconductor expects shipments of its wireless charger A/D flash MCUs for the second quarter of 2018 to double from three million units in the...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Taiwan makers enjoy stable consumer MCU orders from IDMs
With major international IDMs including STMicroelectronics failing to ease the prolonged lead time for MCU shipments, Taiwan-based MCU makers will continue to benefit from the ensuing...
Wednesday 25 April 2018
TeraPower expecting car-use chip probing orders from Japan IDMs
TeraPower Technology, a re-invested chip probing affiliate of Taiwan's memory backend service specialist Powertech Technology (PTI), is actively tapping into the automotive electronics...
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Andes silicon IP chip shipments to hit 800 million mark in 2018
Taiwan-based CPU IP provider Andes expects to see shipments of its silicon IP chips hit the 800 million mark in 2018, according to company president Frankwell JM Lin.
Wednesday 18 April 2018
OSE likely to swing to profit in 1H18
Backend house Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) is expected to return to profitability in the first half of 2018, according to industry sources.
Friday 13 April 2018
Taiwan IC designers expanding presence in car electronics sector
Zeroing in on automotive electronics as a new "blue ocean" market, Taiwan's IC design houses are expected to tap deeper into the sector in 2018 by enhancing innovative functions of...
Friday 13 April 2018
Greatek enjoys robust demand for auto MCUs
Taiwan-based logic IC packaging firm Greatek Electronics, an affiliate of Powertech Technology (PTI), has seen orders for MCUs ramp up from its IDM clients while enjoying strong demand...
Thursday 29 March 2018
Ardentec seeing orders for auto MCU ramp up
Taiwan-based Ardentec is expected to enjoy growing revenues generated from orders for automotive MCUs in 2018, according to industry sources. The IC testing company has seen orders...
Wednesday 28 March 2018
IC designers gearing up to develop datacenter server chipsets
With global datacenter operators showing rampant demand for servers with faster, safer and more power-saving data transmission and processing performances, Taiwan leading IC designers...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Macronix NOR chips adopted for new STMicro MCU
Macronix International has announced that STMicroelectronics is using Macronix International's 8-bit I/O serial NOR flash memory for ST's new STM32L4+ microcontroller discovery kits...
Friday 23 March 2018
IC designers gaining from strong demand for AI-based ASICs
The growing application of AI to terminal devices has triggered a new wave of IC design and IP resources reorganization, with device makers showing increasing demand for ASICs, either...
Thursday 15 March 2018
IC designer Weltrend to enforce 20% capital reduction in June
Taiwan-based IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor has announced a plan to trim its paid-in capital by 20% or NT$445 million (US$15.225 million) from its current level of NT$2.226...
Tuesday 13 March 2018
AirPower launch to sharply boost Taiwan GPP rectifier shipments
With Apple set to launch its in-house designed wireless charging pad AirPower by the end of March, Taiwan suppliers of glass passivated package (GPP) bridge rectifiers needed to support...
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Taiwan IC designers to embrace explosive orders for IoT chipsets
With the global IoT (Internet of Things) chipset markets, particularly in China, expected to grow sharply in 2018 along with the rapid development of diverse terminal devices and...