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Wednesday 26 April 2017
Digitimes Research: Biometric sensor shipments to see CAGR of over 30% from 2017-2020
Biometric sensor technologies are mainly separated into two major categories: the static type such as fingerprint, iris, face, palm vein recognition; and the dynamic type such as...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
TSMC talks about its next growth drivers
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is seeing robust growth in demand from the mobile computing, automotive electronics, IoT and high-performance computing sectors,...
Monday 10 April 2017
Egistec March revenues down, FocalTech up
Fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology (Egistec) saw its March revenues decrease 13.4% sequentially to NT$335.14 million (US$10.95 million) while fellow company FocalTech Systems'...
Friday 24 March 2017
Shanghai QST enjoys robust MEMS sensor shipments
MEMS sensor startup Shanghai Quality Sensor Technology (QST) saw its shipments jump five-fold in 2016 compared to the previous year, driven by the fast-growing market for accelerators,...
Monday 13 March 2017
HannsTouch Solution to expand touch sensor capacity, says paper
Touch sensor maker HannsTouch Solution, due to growing demand for touch sensors used in AMOLED panels, will invest NT$1.8 billion (US$58.3 million) to expand production capacity from...
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Fingerprint sensor maker Egistec sees revenues up 4-fold on year in February
Fingerprint sensor maker Egis Technology (Egistec) has reported revenues of NT$387 million (US$12.53 million) for February, down 16.41% on month but up 427.5% on year.
Thursday 16 February 2017
NVM IP provider eMemory obtains orders from major fingerprint sensor suppliers
Demand for fingerprint-recognition ICs, power management chips and touch with display driver IC (TDDI) solutions is set to be brisk in 2017, according to Charles Hsu, chairman for...
Thursday 16 February 2017
SiP module supplier ShunSin to roll out more fingerprint sensor, telematics modules in 2017
ShunSin Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics specializing in assembly and test of system-in-package (SiP) modules, plans to focus more on fingerprint sensor and telematics...
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Robust fingerprint sensor demand continues to fill 8-inch fab capacity in 2017
IC foundries will continue to see a pull-in of orders for fingerprint-recognition sensor chips to fill their 8-inch fab capacity in 2017, according to industry sources. Meanwhile,...
Friday 10 February 2017
MediaTek, Egistec gearing up for upcoming rollouts of new Samsung smartphones
Taiwan-based MediaTek and Egis Technology (Egistec) have both cut into the supply chain for Samsung Electronics' Galaxy smartphones, and are expected to see the orders bring in new...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
CMOS image sensor demand promising
High-resolution automative panels and handsets with dual-lens camera modules will spur demand for CMOS image sensors, particularly high-end ones, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 27 December 2016
Himax announces 5.5MP BSI image sensor for computer vision and NIR imaging applications
Himax Imaging, a subsidiary of Himax Technologies, has announced the HM5530 UltraSenseIR product, a low-power and low-noise 5.5-megapixel backside-illuminated (BSI) CMOS image sensor...
Friday 18 November 2016
Egistec October revenues surge
Taiwan-based fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology (Egistec) has reported October revenues surged 84.7% on month to NT$301 million (US$9.4 million).
Thursday 27 October 2016
CIS module maker Asia Tech Image reports strong earnings for 3Q16
CIS module maker Asia Tech Image has reported net profits of NT$113 million (US$3.579 million) for the third quarter of 2016, increasing 51% from a quarter earlier. EPS for the quarter...
Monday 24 October 2016
More than 30 IC design houses to vie for fingerprint sensor market in 2017
More than 30 IC design houses will vie for the growing fingerprint sensor market in 2017 due to the increasing penetration of the identification chips in the high-end smartphone segment,...