Last update: Wednesday 19 June 2013 [7505 news items]
New power management IC from ams targets China smartphone market
May 31, 11:45
Austria-based ams, formerly austriamicrosystems, has introduced a new power management (PWM) IC. Acknowledging continued growth in China's smartphone and tablet markets, ams is looking...
Etron to begin shipping 3D image sensors in July
May 30, 14:23
IC design house Etron Technology has announced the development of a single-chip 3D image sensor, the eSP870, which will be shipped to a China-based TV maker starting July.
Supply of eMMC devices to China falling short
May 30, 13:43
Demand for embedded MultiMedia Card (eMMC) flash memory devices coming from China's smartphone and tablet industry supply chains has ramped up rapidly causing the supply from major...
MediaTek to increase number of component suppliers for its reference designs
May 29, 21:53
MediaTek plans to increase the number of its suppliers of parts and components for its smartphone solution reference designs in order to smooth out its production, according to industry...
Xilinx, TSMC team up for 16nm FinFET FPGAs
May 29, 15:44
Xilinx and TSMC have jointly announced that they are teaming up to create FPGAs built using 16nm FinFET process technology.
Transformation to help SiS return to profitability in 2H13, says report
Newswatch - May 29, 14:55
Once known as a PC chipset company, Taiwan-based Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has turned its business focus fully to touchscreen controller ICs. Such transformation is expected...
MediaTek May revenues to drop to below NT$10 billion
May 29, 12:06
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues drop to below NT$10 billion (US$334.97 million) in May compared to a three-year high of NT$12.57 billion recorded in April, as most IC clients...
Consumer IC vendors receiving more orders in 2Q13
May 29, 11:13
Taiwan-based consumer IC vendors have received an influx of orders since the second quarter of 2013 and expect sales momentum to continue to August-September, according to industry...
LED driver IC vendors look to strong revenue growth in 2Q13
May 28, 16:13
Some Taiwan-based IC suppliers have been ramping their shipments of LED driver ICs to China thanks to the fledging LED lighting industry in the country and growing demand for LED...
Some PC IC suppliers post high gross margins in 1Q13
May 28, 15:31
Some Taiwan-based PC IC design houses, including C-Media Electronics, Aspeed Technology and Egalax-empia Technology (EETI), all beat market expectations by posting a gross margin...
LGE accelerates in-house mobile AP development
May 28, 11:04
LG Electronics is set to develop its own mobile application processors, accelerating the in-house development of ARM-based chips for mobile devices.
Holtek eyes over 10% sequential revenue growth in 2Q13
May 27, 16:06
MCU vendor Holtek Semiconductor is expected to see its revenues for the second quarter of 2013 grow over 10% sequentially from NT$893 million (US$29.89 million) recorded in the previous...
China market: White-box tablet makers approaching MediaTek for quad-core solutions
May 27, 15:17
China-based white-box tablet makers are reportedly approaching MediaTek for the purchase of the chipmaker's integrated MT8125 and 8135 quad-core application processors for tablets,...
Haswell orders to lift sales of IC suppliers in May-June
May 27, 12:07
Taiwan-based IC design houses for touch controllers, eDP (embedded DisplayPort) solutions, USB 3.0 chips, and ambient light and proximity sensors have experienced strong pull-in orders...
Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
May 24, 15:28
IC design house Phison Electronics has warned several Taiwan-based backend service providers that products being shipped to Silicon Motion Technology may infringe on its NAND flash...
Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
May 23, 12:03
Intel, MediaTek and Elan Microelectronics combined have taken up over 60% of global touchscreen controller ICs market, according to industry sources.
Hermes to see revenues grow higher than 10% sequentially in 2Q13
May 22, 22:01
Hermes Microvision (HMI), which provides electron beam inspection tools and solutions for the production of semiconductors, is expected to see its revenues grow over 10% sequentially...
Elan shipping touchscreen controller ICs for new Nexus 7
May 22, 21:42
Elan Microelectronics reportedly has begun shipping touchscreen controller ICs for Google's new Nexus 7 tablets, which will help ramp up the revenues of the Taiwan-based IC design...
China-based ARM-architecture IC designers to attend 2013 Computex Taipei
May 22, 15:50
The main China-based ARM-architecture IC design houses, including Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics, Allwinner Technology, Nufront and Actions Semiconductor, will showcase IC solutions...
Imec, Globalfoundries team up for STT-MRAM
May 22, 11:22
Globalfoundries has joined Imec's industrial research collaboration to develop spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM), according to the IC foundry.
Ilitek to post revenues of over NT$900 million in May
May 21, 21:39
ILi Technology (Ilitek) is expected to see its revenues top over NT$900 million (US$30.07 million) in May, buoyed by increasing shipments of LCD driver ICs for feature phones and...
AMD falls to 4th rank MPU supplier in 2012, says IC Insights
May 21, 15:54
A slowdown in notebook and desktop PC purchases coupled with strong growth in smartphones and tablets knocked AMD down to fourth place in microprocessor (MPU) sales in 2012 from second,...
Demand for large-size driver ICs to boom in 2H13, say backend firms
May 21, 14:47
Packaging and testing firms Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies both expect orders for large-size LCD driver ICs to pull in during the second half of 2013 on booming demand...
Touch screen IC, LED driver IC suppliers to post strong performance in May
May 21, 14:44
Touch screen controller IC vendors Elan Microelectronics and Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) have both seen their clients step up purchases of touch controller ICs for Haswell-based...
Revenues for drivers in LED general lighting applications to triple, says IMS Research
May 21, 10:42
Global revenues for LED driver ICs used in general lighting applications will more than triple from 2012 to 2015, as the market for solid-state illumination booms, according to IMS...
MediaTek 2Q13 sales likely to beat guidance
May 20, 21:30
MediaTek is likely to report higher-than-expected sales for the second quarter of 2013 on a recent ramp-up in demand from China-based smartphone and tablet companies, according to...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD driver IC shipments rise 22% in 1Q13
May 20, 21:26
Shipments of LCD driver ICs by Taiwan-based IC design houses for the first quarter of 2013 grew 21.6% from a year ago to NT$20.18 billion (US$673.8 million) in value, according to...
More firms provide crystal-less USB 3.0 device controllers
May 20, 16:37
More USB 3.0 device controller suppliers have launched crystal-less solutions designed for small, lightweight products, including startup M31 Technology. The design would also help...
Taiwan-based analog IC suppliers facing increasing competition from rivals in China
May 20, 15:15
Taiwan-based analog IC vendors are facing increasing competition from China-based rival companies, which are now aiming to replace Taiwan makers as the major analog IC suppliers in...
Capella tops analog IC suppliers with highest EPS in 1Q13
May 20, 13:55
Taiwan-based Capella Microsystems topped fellow analog IC design houses with the highest EPS of NT$3.48 (US$0.12) in the first quarter of 2013, according to market data.
China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
May 17, 14:11
A shortage in the supply of some key components, including high-end camera modules, touchscreen panels and multi-chip package (MCP) memory chips, is worsening in the smartphone industry...
Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
May 16, 21:46
Demand for small-size LCD driver ICs has remained strong thanks to brisk smartphone sales in China, which is set to drive revenue growth for related suppliers including design houses,...
SDRAM prices to hike 10% in May
May 16, 15:56
Prices of specialty DRAM are set to rise another 10% in May, with a prospect that shortages of the niche memory chips could worsen in the third quarter of 2013, according to industry...
Global Unichip, Macroblock, ALi perform lower than expected in 1Q13
May 15, 22:12
IC design houses Global Unichip, Macroblock and ALi saw performances below market expectations in the first quarter of 2013. Global Unichip and Macroblock each posted EPS below NT$1...
IC distributor Anstek reports on-year earnings gains in 1Q13
May 15, 15:13
IC distributor Answer Technology (Anstek) saw its net profits edge up 6.3% on year to NT$27 million (US$904,613) in the first quarter of 2013, buoyed by agent sales of Xilinx produ...
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
LED | 11h 9min ago
Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
IT + CE | 11h 11min ago
Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
IT + CE | 11h 16min ago
Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
Bits + chips | 11h 38min ago
Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
Bits + chips | 11h 39min ago
Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
Displays | 12h 36min ago
LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
LED | Jun 19, 20:55
Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
Displays | Jun 19, 20:49
GSEO sees profits in 2012
Before Going to Press | 11h 32min ago
Acer positions Gateway and Packard Bell as mid-range/entry-level brands
Before Going to Press | 11h 50min ago
IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 20:47
Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 20:21
Innolux expects slowdown in TV panel shipments
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 19:24
HTC to continue supplying HTC Butterfly after launch of HTC Butterfly S
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 19:16
MWC 2013: Nvidia Tegra 4i processor
Nvidia has introduced its first fully integrated 4G LTE mobile processor, the Tegra 4i. Previously codenamed Project Grey, the Tegra 4i processor features 60 custom Nvidia GPU cores;...
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Toshiba has announced that it will launch a new 20-megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor, the TCM5115CL, as the latest addition to its sensor line-up for digital still cameras. TCM5115CL...
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Maxim Newport smart meter reference design
The Maxim Newport reference design is a fully running electricity meter. With this reference design Maxim can demonstrate how it can make the core chip, as well as all the chips that...
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Maxim's Chris Neil, senior VP, Industrial and Medical Solutions Group
Security is a pretty serious issue for smart meters, because unlike mechanical meters, smart meters have a relay in them and thus can be turned on and off remotely, whereas an old...
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Ravi Subramanian, CEO of EDA firm Berkeley Design Automation
If you define mixed signal as being where more than 30% of a die is doing analog or RF work, we are seeing a dramatic rise in mixed-signal designs. Over the next year, it has been...
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Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the US and Europe and has seen its sales growing by leaps and bounds in recent years...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors to key strategic partners. Shipped as a chip scale package (CSP), the Cavendish...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services for Ethernet, as well as specifying attributes such as quality of service, service...
Enabling IoT through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: Q&A with Broadcom marketing director Jeff Baer
Just before Computex 2013, Digitimes spoke with Jeff Baer, marketing director for Embedded Wireless, Wireless Connectivity Combo at Broadcom to find out more about Broadcom's push...
Bringing 802.11ac to the mainstream: Broadcom VP Rahul Patel talks up 5G Wi-Fi
Demand for video, especially high-definition video, is pushing players in the mobile telecom industry to continually seek new ways to increase bandwidth. On the network side, telecoms...
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Open cell business model is a threat to BLU makers, says Radiant chairman
- Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
- Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Taiwan panel makers see increased orders for 5-inch qHD panels from China telecom operators
- Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
- JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
- MediaTek allocating more resources for development of tablet solutions
- China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
- Tablet IC sales to soar in 2013, says IC Insights
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- DRAM supply shortage to extend through 2015, says Inotera executive
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
- NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
- Analog IC vendors to see orders rebound in 2H13
- Sean Maloney joins SMIC as independent non-executive director
- Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
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- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
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...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.