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Tuesday 12 November 2019
TWS earbud chip prices fall below US$1.50
Unit prices for SoC chips used in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have fallen below US$1.50 recently, down from US$2.50-3 in the first quarter of 2019, amid growing presence of...
Friday 8 November 2019
MediaTek 8K DTV SoC in volume production on TSMC 12FFC technology
MediaTek's 8K digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) manufactured with 12nm technology, the MediaTek S900, has entered volume manufacturing with TSMC, according to the companies.
Thursday 7 November 2019
Novatek expects up to 5% sales drop in 4Q19
LCD driver IC design specialist Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenues of between NT$15.8 billion (US$519.3 million) and NT$16.3 billion for the fourth quarter of 2019,...
Wednesday 6 November 2019
MediaTek 5G SoC shipments likely to top 50 million units in 2020
MediaTek is expected to ship over 50 million 5G SoC chips in 2020, during which it will roll out three to four 5G SoC series supporting both sub-6GHz and mmWave, according to industry...
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 5 November 2019
Smartphone AP shipments to China to continue falling in 4Q19, says Digitimes Research
Shipments of smartphone application processors (APs) to China are forecast to decline 4.6% on year in the fourth quarter of 2019, following a decline of 9.4% in the third quarter...
Monday 4 November 2019
Taiwan chipmakers gearing up for China 5G rollout
Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers and backend houses are all gearing up to tap robust demand for 5G-related applications from China, where local major telecom carriers have started...
Thursday 24 October 2019
HiSilicon chips to power nearly 70% of Huawei handset shipments in 2019, says Digitimes Research
China's mobile solution provider HiSilicon Technologies is expected to see its shipments of application processors continue to grow in 2019 with its chips powering nearly 70% of handsets...
Wednesday 23 October 2019
Winbond invests more in Nuvoton
Winbond Electronics has subscribed to new shares issued by Nuvoton Technology, and raised its stake in the logic IC specialist to 61.6%, according to a company filing with the Taiwan...
Tuesday 22 October 2019
HiSilicon now top TSMC customer for advanced process node
Huawei's HiSilicon has unseated Apple as the largest customer of TSMC in terms of advanced process node capacity share, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 October 2019
MediaTek reportedly planning 6nm 5G SoC
MediaTek reportedly has plans to roll out 6nm 5G mobile SoCs with volume production slated to kick off in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Tuesday 22 October 2019
Unisoc set to raise new funds to support 5G, IoT chips development
Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking arm Unisoc will enforce a capital increment of CNY5 billion (US$707.44 million) to support its development of core 5G and IoT chipsets, according to...
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Arm, Samsung and Synopsys partner to accelerate 5nm SoC development
Synopsys announced recently that the company is partnering with Arm and Samsung's foundry operations (Samsung Foundry) to develop solutions enabling early adoption of the next-generation...
Tuesday 15 October 2019
MediaTek reportedly to start shipping 5G SoC in 4Q19
MediaTek is expected to start shipping its first-generation 5G SoC chips later in the fourth quarter of 2019, for which the chipmaker is likely to post a slight drop or flat growth...
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Taiwan chipmaking industry gearing up for next stage growth
Taiwan's chipmaking industry, led by TSMC, is gearing up to enter its next stage of growth as chip demand for 5G applications is set to start ramping up substantially next year, according...