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Friday 8 April 2016
PTI, KYEC post revenue growth for March
Memory and logic IC backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) has reported March revenues increased 10.5% sequentially and 8.6% on year, while fellow company King Yuan Electronics...
Friday 8 April 2016
MediaTek 2Q16 EPS to boost, says report
Gains generated from the sale of a unit specializing in car electronics chips and Goodix' IPO listing on the Shanghai stock market will boost MediaTek's profitability in the second...
Friday 8 April 2016
Worldwide semiconductor revenues fall 2.3% in 2015, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor revenues totaled US$334.8 billion in 2015, a 2.3% decrease from 2014, according to final results by Gartner.
Friday 8 April 2016
Global 2015 semiconductor wafer-level manufacturing equipment market drops 1%, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor wafer-level manufacturing equipment revenue totaled US$33.6 billion in 2015, a 1% decrease from 2014, according to final results by Gartner. The top 10 vendors...
Friday 8 April 2016
CPT March panel shipments up on month, down on year
TFT-LCD panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) shipped 74,000 large-size panels and 33.88 million small- to medium-size units in March, with the former increasing 22.2% on month...
Thursday 7 April 2016
iPhone SE is 3 iPhone generations rolled into 1, IHS teardown reveals
A preliminary estimate by IHS and its teardown and cost benchmarking service shows that the iPhone SE smartphone costs about US$160 to build. The US version of an entry-level iPhone...
Thursday 7 April 2016
Etron webcam controller adopted in new Oculus device, say reports
Etron Technology's webcam controllers have cut into the supply chain of Oculus for the virtual reality (VR) device vendor's Rift Constellation tracking system, according to recent...
Thursday 7 April 2016
Macronix reports increased revenues for March
Macronix International Company has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.774 billion (US$54.79 million) for March 2016, representing a 8.95% increase on month and 3.18% increase...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Global Unichip reports brisk March results
IC design services provider Global Unichip has reported March revenues soared 13.8% sequentially and 81.4% from a year earlier to NT$926 million (US$28.5 million).
Wednesday 6 April 2016
3S to post strong 1Q16, says report
Memory device controller IC and MEMS microphone chip provider Solid State System (3S) is expected to post sequential revenue and gross margin growth for the first quarter of 2016...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Digitimes Research: Foxconn investment to enhance Sharp competitiveness in panel market
Having taken control of Sharp, Foxconn Electronics will obtain Sharp-developed panel technologies including Oxide TFT-LCD, IGZO TFT-LCD, LTPS TFT-LCD and AMOLED. It is also expected...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Global semiconductor sales dip slightly in February, says SIA
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$26 billion for the month of February 2016, a decrease of 3.2% compared...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
US firms continue to capture bulk of IDM and fabless IC sales, says IC Insights
US-headquartered companies held a 54% share of the total worldwide IC market in 2015, which includes sales from IDMs and fabless IC companies, according to IC Insights. The total...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Socionext Taiwan Inc. established April 1 to develop cloud, IoT and 8K imaging applications across the world from Taiwan
Leading Japanese SoC (System-on-Chip) company Socionext Inc. was established in March 2015. Socionext Taiwan Inc. has been established in Taiwan on April 1, 2016. Socionext Inc. was...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Global smiconductor market slumps in 2015, IHS says
Global semiconductor revenues fell by 2% in 2015, according to IHS. Sequential quarterly growth was weak throughout every quarter of 2015, especially in the first quarter when the...