More than 50% of Ardentec's revenues now come from IDM clients, especially from major client Texas Instruments (TI). Ardentec, a wafer probing service provider, indicated that orders...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen its IDM clients increase orders since the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report...
Taiwan's King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec are expected to focus on gaining more outsourcing from international IDMs in 2011, according to...
With its lead in advanced process capacity, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to be the largest beneficiary of increased outsourcing by IDMs, Nobunaga...
With more IDMs in Japan going fabless, and development of China's IC design industry rising toward maturity, industry watchers expect both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Taiwan-based analog IC designers including Richtek Technology, Global Mixed-code Technology (GMT), Anpec Technology and Leadtrend Technology are willing to accept higher quotes in...
After a year that was decidedly skewed by macroeconomic forces impacting the entire electronics value chain, pure-play foundry suppliers will see revenues jump by 39.5% this year...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have both revealed that demand from their IDM customers is growing.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to strike a deal with a Japan-based IDM company, under which the foundry would acquire production equipment from the IDM and...
Overall semiconductor supplier operating profitability rose to 21.4% in the fourth quarter of 2009, the highest level since fourth-quarter 2000 when it reached 24.7%, according to...
An increasing number of fabless chip companies and IDMs are considering copper wire for some new products, though a number of issues exist regarding this transition, according to...
Taiwan-based IDM Lite-On Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$804 million (US$25.23 million) for December 2009 and NT$8.67 billion for the year. Despite a 27% on-year...
Foundry IC sales will grow at nearly twice the rate of the overall IC industry over the next five years, according to IC Insights, adding that both pure-play and IDM foundry sales...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) is estimated to see its gross margin climb 3.3pp sequentially to 25% in the third quarter of 2009, in line with better revenue growth, according...
Sigurd Microelectronics has obtained orders for testing ICs used in consumer electronics, handsets and PCs from a US-based IDM, becoming the vendor's sole testing partner in Taiwan,...
