Last update: Tuesday 29 November 2011 [51 news items]
Global Unichip USB 3.0 device controller IP certified by USB-IF
Nov 29, 14:52
Global Unichip has announced that its USB 3.0 device controller IP has passed the USB-IF test procedure for SuperSpeed products and is now listed on the integrator list.
Global Unichip September revenues hit record high
Oct 7, 15:55
Global Unichip, the IC design service provider partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), saw its revenues reach a new high of NT$1.05 billion (US$34 million)...
TSMC to visit Apple for more talks
Oct 6, 01:30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has sent a 60-member team, which includes staff from its IC design service partner Global UniChip, to Silicon Valley-based Apple...

Global Unichip 3Q11 revenues to rise 15-20%
Sep 22, 01:10
IC design service provider Global Unichip is expected to report 15-20% sequential growth in revenues for the third quarter of 2011, as orders for 65nm and 40nm non-recurring engineering...
MediaTek, MStar, Global Unichip to hike 3Q11 revenues goals
Sep 20, 13:55
Taiwan-based IC design houses MediaTek, MStar Semiconductor and Global Unichip are expected to upwardly adjust their respective projected revenues for the third quarter of 2011 due...
Global Unichip seeing demand for 65nm and below processes rise
Jul 12, 15:07
Global Unichip has esimated that products requiring 65nm and below processing rose to account for more than 50% of its revenues in the second quarter, up from 45% in the first. The...
Global Unichip, Springsoft to see June revenues grow
Jun 29, 11:09
IC design service providers Global Unichip and Springsoft will see their June revenues remain high although most of their partners in the downstream IC design industry may suffer...
Global Unichip, Alchip developing ASIC solutions for TD-LTE networks
Jun 20, 11:30
Taiwan-based fabless IC design service companies Global Unichip and Alchip Technologies have both reportedly received orders for TD-LTE ASIC solutions from system players in China,...
Global Unichip looks to more revenues driven from advanced processes
Jun 3, 11:46
Global Unichip, an IC design service provider partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has stated that revenues generated by its advanced manufacturing processes...
SpringSoft, Global Unichip and Faraday post mixed April results
May 11, 10:49
Taiwan-based IC design software vendor SpringSoft's consolidated revenues hit a record high of NT$196 million (US$6.86 million) in April as fellow companies Global Unichip and Faraday...
Global Unichip sees 1Q11 revenues drop on-quarter, but higher gross margin
Feb 14, 16:32
Global Unichip, an IC design service provider partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has said revenues may decline by more than 10% sequentially in the...

Global Unichip expects sales pick up in 2Q11
Jan 7, 11:55
IC design service provider Global Unichip is expected to see its first-quarter 2011 revenues affected by seasonal factors before staging a turnaround from the second quarter onward...
IC design service providers Faraday and Global Unichip post mixed November results
Dec 8, 12:09
IC design service providers Faraday Technology and Global Unichip have posted mixed results for November, with the former seeing its revenues drop 3% sequentially and the latter posting...
Global Unichip, Faraday 3Q10 sales up 7% on quarter
Oct 8, 02:20
IC design service providers Global Unichip and Faraday Technology both saw their third-quarter 2010 revenues increase by about 7% sequentially, in line with their guidance, according...
Global Unichip and Faraday positive about 3Q10 outlook
Sep 8, 11:47
IC design service providers Global Unichip and Faraday Technology both expect to set sales records in third-quarter 2010 despite posting sequential decline in August revenues, according...
Synopsys DesignWare SATA IP enables first-pass silicon success for Global Unichip
Aug 30, 15:00
Synopsys has announced that Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) has achieved first-pass silicon success for its GP5080 SSD SoC utilizing the Synopsys DesignWare SATA IP solution, consisting...
Global Unichip and Faraday look to 7-9% sequential revenue gains in 3Q10
Aug 9, 15:58
IC design houses Global Unichip and Faraday Technology both expect their revenues to grow 7-9% sequentially in the third quarter.
Global Unichip to begin 40nm tape-out for China IC designers in 2Q10
Mar 17, 12:04
Global Unichip has received orders for 40nm chip production from China and will begin design tape-out in the second quarter, according to company president Jim Lai. Global Unichip...
Global Unichip looks to revenue growth in 1Q10
Feb 24, 15:24
Global Unichip has seen a recovery in the US and Europe and expects revenues to grow slightly in the first quarter of 2010. The company said revenues in March are likely to perform...

Global Unichip aims for double-digit growth in 2010 sales
Feb 8, 14:47
Global Unichip, an IC design service provider partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has guided for a double-digit revenue growth in 2010, according to...

Cross-strait USB 3.0 war to begin
Dec 21, 15:52
Fierce competition between Taiwan and China in the USB 3.0 IC design market is coming in 2010 as Intel plans to integrate USB 3.0 support into its chipsets next year.

Global Unichip vice chairman and CEO KC Shih retires
Nov 13, 16:34
KC Shih has retired as Global Unichip's vice chairman and CEO, but will remain as a member of the company's board of directors, according to the company. Shih founded Global Unichip...
Faraday, Global Unichip differ on 4Q09 outlook
Nov 4, 14:58
Faraday Technology expects fourth-quarter revenues to drop by 10% due to weaker demand for ASICs, while Global Unichip has said its revenues in the fourth quarter will increase slightly...
Global Unichip announces mass production of ARM7-based GP5080 series SSD SoC solution
Nov 3, 16:43
Global Unichip has announced the mass-production of its ARM7-based GP5080 series SSD SoC platform solution, targeting the storage application for the booming market of netbooks/smartbooks,...
Atmel and Global Unichip announce collaboration for SoC
Sep 21, 16:53
Atmel and Global Unichip have announced a collaboration to develop SoC for their mutual clients, with Atmel's AT91CAP ARM-based customizable microcontroller as the technology platf...
Global Unichip to volume produce 40nm PCIe Gen2 IP by end of 2009
Aug 11, 09:28
Global Unichip has announced that its recent success on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)'s 40nm G process PCIe Gen2 IP has been validated in the data rate that ranges...
Global Unichip vying for monitoring system, SSD markets
Aug 7, 12:29
Global Unichip has secured orders for high-speed interface solutions targeting the monitoring system and SSD markets which are usually led by IDMs such as IBM, and it expects to grab...

Global Unichip SiP solution validated by TSMC
Jul 28, 15:25
Global Unichip has announced that its SiP design solution has passed the validation process of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

Jul 24, 15:45
Incentia Design Systems, a timing analysis and design closure solution provider, has announced that Global Unichip has adopted Incentia's TimeCraft as its static timing analyzer (STA)...
Global Unichip faces labor dispute
Jul 17, 16:02
A small group of former employees of Taiwan-based IC design service provider Global Unichip has filed a complaint with the Hsinchu District Court in northern Taiwan accusing the company...
Global Unichip to have former Cadence Asia Pacific president head China operations
Jun 30, 12:07
Taiwan-based IC design service provider Global Unichip has decided to appoint Lung Chu, the former Asia Pacific president for EDS company Cadence Design Systems, as its China president...

Global Unichip beefing up presence in China, Japan and South Korea
Jun 4, 12:18
Taiwan IC design service provider Global Unichip will strengthen its deployments in China, South Korea, Japan, Europe and Israel in 2009, according to company CEO KC Shih. Market...

Global Unichip suffers bad debt from China-based Innofidei
May 19, 16:25
Taiwan-based IC design service provider Global Unichip has suffered default in payment by its client Innofidei, the largest China-based design house of mobile TV ICs, since the fourth...
Global Unichip 1Q09 revenues down 18% sequentially
Apr 29, 15:44
Global Unichip has announced unaudited revenues of NT$1.88 billion (US$55.7 million) for the first quarter of 2009, down 18% sequentially. Despite the revenue drop, the company saw...

Giga Solution and Global Unichip launch RF SiP test solution for mobile TV tuner mass production
Mar 24, 17:11
Giga Solution, a test service corporation focusing on RFIC/SiP/SoC test area, and Global Unichip, a fabless ASIC and SoC design service provider, have announced the jointly developed...
Pegatron to give up Asustek ultrabook orders, says paper
Systems - Newswatch | 1h 15min ago
- Acer to launch CloudMobile smartphone in 3Q12
- Rubicon sees slight increase of sapphire substrate orders
- Order surge of solar cells from Germany to level off in end of February
- ASE expects sales rebound in 2Q12
- Compal ships 2.1 million notebooks in January, says paper
- Acer sees decreased January revenues
- Chunghwa Telecom posts January EPS of NT$0.43
- Foxconn January revenues down sequentially
- HTC lands orders for quad-core smartphone, says paper
- New products to account for 60% of AUO total shipments in 2012
- Intel, Nvidia to showcase latest technologies at MWC 2012
- HannStar Display posts sequential revenue gains in January
- Compal Communications, Arima Communications post mixed results for January
- Nokia, Motorola and Sony likely to increase handset orders to Taiwan ODMs
- Gross margins for ODM TV production to remain low in 2012
- Novatek expects sales to hit bottom in 1Q12
- MStar sees 8-13% sales drop in 1Q12
- Soft-World, Gamania January revenues hit records
- 20GW of solar PV manufacturing equipment to be replaced by 2016, says IMS Research
- Touch panel makers Young Fast, J Touch post declined sales in January
- Growth of global TV shipments to fall to 7% in 2012, says GfK
- Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom poised to offer mobile satellite communication service
- Amtran revenues down in January
- Lite-On IT, Quanta Storage see January revenues decrease
- Silicon wafer shipments down in 2011, says SEMI
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- Taiwan banks want higher investment limit for China peers (February 9) - Reuters
- China's exports and imports fall (February 10) - BBC News
- Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec (February 8) - 9to5Mac.com
- Post-election Taiwan: beyond exports (February 7) - The Financial Times
- Deadly cold snap cripples Europe (February 6) - ABC News
- IMF cuts China 2012 growth forecast to 8.25% (February 6) - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
- US job numbers show strong growth (February 3) - BBC News
- Taiwan backs Ma, but unease over China remains (January 14) - BBC News
- Commentary: Lack of distribution channels continues to hover over Taiwan solar industry
- Possible versions to fix Elpida debt repayment crunch
- Commentary: Could automation solve labor issues for Foxconn?
- Commentary: Apple being dragged into US-China trade war
- Digitimes Research: Greater China to take up 65% of global small- to medium-size TFT LCD shipments in 2011

Growth of the LED market: Q&A with James Jenson, vice president of LED business unit at Veeco
US-based MOCVD equipment provider Veeco currently ranks number one in global market share with 50%...

MEMS sensors market looking strong: Q&A with Kionix director of marketing Brachocki
In a recent telephone interview, Ed Brachocki, director of marketing at Kionix, updated several developments...

The greening of Taiwan: Q&A with Siemens Taiwan CEO Peter Weiss
While Taiwan is not usually thought of as being at the forefront of the green revolution, Taipei happened...

Focus on small, cost-effective packages: Q&A with STATS ChipPAC CEO Tan Lay Koon
Despite uncertainties in the semiconductor industry outlook, packaging and testing firm STATS ChipPAC...
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The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
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- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - Jun 2011
The motherboard industry began 2010 with optimism and expected to see a reversal of the previous two years' declines in revenues and shipments as the impact of...
- Taiwan DRAM module industry overview - Jun 2011
The year 2010 represented a peak in recent years for the DRAM module industry. Optimism surfaced in the second half of 2009 thanks to a return of demand on the...
- Overview of the Greater China small- to medium-size TFT LCD industry
This DIGITIMES Research Special Report provides a comprehensive overview of the players and market direction of panel makers in the Greater China region, as well as outlining the potential market influence of OLEDs.
- The role of PV in China energy policy through 2015
During China 12th Five Year Plan period (2011-2015), solar PV will be the fastest growing renewable energy. Installed capacity in China grow by tenfold to reach the target of 10GWp by 2015.
- Industry development and government policy in China animation sector
The animation industry production value in China is projected to exceed CNY50 billion by 2015. This Digitimes Special Report provides an overview of the industry, including regional development, government policy and a breakdown of the various market segments.



















