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Tuesday 14 March 2017
Certification service firms IST, MA-tek post revenue growth in February
Integrated Service Technology (IST) and Material Analysis Technology (MA-tek), two Taiwan-based certification service providers, have both reported on-year revenue growth for February...
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Qualcomm expanding Snapdragon 835 market share at the expense of MediaTek Helio X30
Qualcomm has continued to expand the market share of its 10nm Snapdragon 835 SoCs at the expense of MediaTek as the Taiwan-based AP solution vendor will be unable to achieve volume...
Tuesday 14 March 2017
NVM IP provider eMemory to post record 1Q17 revenues
Embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) IP provider eMemory Technology is expected to report record revenues for the first quarter of 2017, a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times...
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Meizu to switch part of smartphone AP orders from MediaTek to Qualcomm in 3Q17, say sources
China-based smartphone vendor Meizu, which currently supplies over 90% of its smartphones with MediaTek application processor (AP) solutions, is expected to begin largely adopting...
Monday 13 March 2017
Taiwan IC distributors post mixed February results
WPG Holdings saw its February revenues increase 2.5% compared to the previous month, while fellow IC distributor WT Microelectronics' revenues fell 18.8% sequentially. Meanwhile,...
Monday 13 March 2017
China makers to expand AMOLED panel capacities, says PIDA
China-based panel makers, in view of fast growing demand, will set up or expand production capacities for AMOLED panels, with eight factories to be completed or expanded in 2020,...
Monday 13 March 2017
Semiconductor shipments dominated by opto-sensor-discrete devices, says IC Insights
Despite advances in integrated circuit technology and the blending of functions to reduce chip count within systems, the percentage split of IC and opto-sensor-discrete (O-S-D) shipments...
Friday 10 March 2017
Lite-On Semi sales to peak in 3Q17
Discrete and analog IC component maker Lite-On Semiconductor is expected to see its revenues reach the peak for 2017 in the third quarter, thanks to robust discrete component and...
Thursday 9 March 2017
Samsung Xian fab output value exceeds SMIC in 2016
Samsung Electronics' NAND flash fab in Xian, China generated CNY23.75 billion (US$3.44 billion) in output value in 2016 outpacing the total output value generated by SMIC's fabs estimated...
Thursday 9 March 2017
MediaTek sticking with TSMC for 7nm chips
Despite experiencing unsatisfactory yield rates for TSMC's 10nm process, MediaTek will continue to partner with the foundry to make its next-generation flagship mobile chips, according...
Thursday 9 March 2017
Silicon Motion intros new UFS controller family for mobile phones
Silicon Motion Technology has announced the launch of its new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) 2.1 controller family, a complete product line supporting UFS HS-Gear3x1L and HS-Gear3x2L,...
Wednesday 8 March 2017
eMemory NeoFuse IP implemented for OLED applications
Taiwan-based eMemory Technology's NeoFuse IP has been implemented in high-voltage (HV) platforms across all process nodes from 0.11-micron to 40nm by six leading foundries responding...
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Record spending for fab equipment expected in 2017 and 2018, says SEMI
Fab equipment spending is expected to reach an industry all-time record, more than US$46 billion in 2017, according to SEMI. The record is expected to be broken again in 2018, nearing...
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.
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Novatek February revenues up 8% on year
LCD driver IC design specialist Novatek Microelectronic has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.36 billion (US$108.6 million) for February 2017, up about 8% on year but down nearly...