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Tuesday 21 February 2017
Xiaomi likely to unveil in-house developed CPUs on February 28
Xiaomi Technology has sent out invitations for a product event to be held on February 28, during which the vendor is expected to unveil its in-house developed Pinecone CPUs and an...
Tuesday 21 February 2017
Taiwan IC production value to rise 5.8% in 2017, say TSIA and IEK
The production value of Taiwan's IC industry, consisting of designers, manufacturers, packaging and testing houses, will increase 5.8% in 2017 reaching NT$2,591.6 billion (US$84.1...
Tuesday 21 February 2017
Taiwan consumer IC firms revenues to pick up in March
Taiwan-based MCU and consumer IC design houses have recently seen customer orders pick up, and are expected to see their revenues start to rise in March, according to industry sour...
Monday 20 February 2017
Smartphones to remain largest AP application through 2020, says Digitimes Research
Smartphones will remain the largest market for application processors (AP) through 2020, accounting for over 80% of all APs shipped annually during the period, according to Digitimes...
Monday 20 February 2017
Taiwan IC production value rises 8.2% in 2016, say TSIA and IEK
Taiwan's IC industry, consisting of designers, manufacturers, packaging and testing houses, generated production value of NT$2,449.3 billion (US$79.5 billion) in 2016, increasing...
Saturday 18 February 2017
GMT expects revenues to drop 3-9% in 1Q17
Taiwan-based fabless firm Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) expects to post a revenue decrease of 3-9% sequentially in the first quarter of 2017. Revenues for all of the year will...
Saturday 18 February 2017
Eight-inch fabs operating at full capacity
Eight-inch wafer fabs in China and Taiwan are running at full capacity driven by brisk demand for smartphone-use ICs including fingerprint-recognition sensors, LCD driver ICs and...
Saturday 18 February 2017
UltraChip posts 2016 EPS of NT$2.28
Taiwan-based fabless IC firm UltraChip saw its net profits reach a 12-year high of NT$141 million (US$4.57 million) in 2016. EPS for the year came to NT$2.28.
Saturday 18 February 2017
Leadtek Research steps into health care devices
Graphics cards vendor Leadtek Research has extended production to health care devices and won adoption of DxPatch, a wearable device to record electrocardiograms, phonocardiograms,...
Friday 17 February 2017
Digitimes Research: China smartphone AP shipments to fall 16% in 1Q17
Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to decline 15.9% sequentially to 145 million units in the first quarter of 2017, according to Digitimes Research...
Friday 17 February 2017
Mentor Graphics announces Veloce Strato platform scales up to 15BG
Mentor Graphics has announced the Veloce Strato emulation platform. The company also claimed it is the only emulation platform on the market with full scalability across both software...
Friday 17 February 2017
Himax remains committed to AR
One year after announcing mass shipments of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplays and wafer-level optics (WLO) products for augmented reality (AR) applications, Himax Technologies...
Friday 17 February 2017
Intel continues to drive semiconductor industry R&D spending, says IC Insights
Intel continued to top all other chip companies in R&D expenditures in 2016 with spending reaching US$12.7 billion, according to IC Insights. Intel's R&D spending represented...
Friday 17 February 2017
MediaTek to lag in 10nm-chip race, says paper
MediaTek may suffer a setback in the ongoing 10nm mobile chip race as the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has reported that Xiaomi Technology has decided...
Thursday 16 February 2017
Himax expects 1Q17 revenues to fall up to 25%
LCD driver IC specialist Himax Technologies expects to post a revenue decrease of 18-25% sequentially in the first quarter of 2017, due mainly to seasonal factors such as fewer working...