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News tagged IC design, distribution

Last update: Friday 17 May 2013 [7440 news items]

ProMOS, Globalfoundries agree on sale of 12-inch fab equipment

Mar 28, 16:22

Taiwan-based ProMOS Technologies announced on March 28 that the company has agreed with Globalfoundries on the sale of more than 1,000 items of production equipment installed at its...

GaAs device revenues grow in 2012, says Strategy Analytics

Mar 28, 13:59

Growth in the fourth quarter of 2012 pulled GaAs device revenues to a slight gain for 2012, according to Strategy Analytics. It also presents the revenue performance of leading GaAs...

Taiwan IC design houses to report stronger than expected earnings for 1Q13

Mar 27, 22:04

A number of IC design houses in Taiwan are expected to report better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of 2013, powered by the launch of new products and cost-reduction...

Intel and Samsung to represent 42% of total chip capex in 2013, says IC Insights

Mar 27, 16:00

The combined capital spending by Samsung Electronics and Intel is forecast to represent 42% of the world's semiconductor capital outlay in 2013, up from 40% in 2012, according to...

Component distributor Lumax posts EPS of NT$5.67 for 2012

Mar 26, 21:59

Process control solution and electronic component distributor Lumax International has reported net profits of NT$673 million (US$22.57 million) or an EPS of NT$5.67 for 2012. The...

IC design house Aspeed to debut on OTC securities market in April

Mar 26, 21:52

Taiwan-based fabless IC design house Aspeed Technology will debut on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) securities market in the second half of April with an initial offering price tentatively...

Arrow to ride on high growth momentum in 2013, says executive

Mar 26, 15:55

Arrow Electronics will continue to ride on the high growth momentum in Asia Pacific region in 2013, with demand coming from the handset, lighting, transportation electronics and energy...

Taiwan IC design houses pull in more orders from supply chain in China

Mar 26, 14:05

Taiwan-based IC design houses have received more orders from clients in China's smartphone, tablet and flat panel segments recently as the supply chain in China has begun building...

Imagination, TSMC extend collaboration to FinFET and 3D ICs

Mar 26, 10:27

Imagination Technologies and contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced the next phase of their technology collaboration.

Intel to release new SSDs for enterprise and datacenter applications

Mar 25, 16:10

Intel is set to release several new solid state drive (SSD) products in April or May with competitive prices and performances, and with the price cuts of its previous-generation products,...

MediaTek to slash handset solution prices in April, says paper

Newswatch - Mar 22, 16:09

MediaTek is expected to implement a comprehensive price cut of its handset solutions on April 1, with quotes for its quad-core MT6589 solutions to be reduced by the highest rate of...

Consumer, PWM IC designers to post 20-40% sales growth in 2Q13

Mar 22, 15:27

Taiwan-based IC design houses supplying solutions for consumer electronics products, tablets, LED lighting applications are expected to post revenue growth of 20-40% sequentially...

FTDI solution integrates display, audio and touch

Mar 22, 11:49

While a majority of the total touch panel shipments is still taken up by the mobile phone sector at present, those shipped to other applications are on the rise. Fabless firm FTDI...

Dave Sroka, global product director at FTDI, talks about a new approach to intelligent display desi

Nuvoton 2Q13 revenues to surge over 30% on quarter

Mar 21, 14:36

Nuvoton Technology is expected to see its revenues soar over 30% sequentially in the second quarter of 2013 with an EPS of higher than NT$1 for the three-month period, powered by...

Smartphones to drive MEMS pressure sensor market through 2016, says IHS

Mar 21, 11:15

With the introduction of the Galaxy S4, Samsung Electronics continues to lead the market in the adoption of pressure sensors in smartphones, paving the way for massive growth in the...

More China smartphone vendors adopt MediaTek quad-core solutions

Mar 20, 22:05

Following the steps of Lenovo and Coolpad, two other China-based smartphone vendors, Huawei and ZTE, reportedly will also adopt MediaTek's quad-core MT6589 solutions for the production...

Samsung Galaxy S4 carries US$236 bill of materials, IHS teardown reveals

Mar 20, 13:45

The HSPA+ version of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S4 smartphone carries a US$236 bill of materials (BOM), up significantly from the Galaxy S3, due to major upgrades in the display,...

SMIC to operate at 90% of production capacity in 2Q13

Mar 19, 21:49

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is expected to operate at 90% of its production capacity in the second quarter of 2013, buoyed by orders from IC design...

IC distributor ANStek to hand out dividends of NT$2.30 for 2012

Mar 19, 19:20

IC distributor Answer Technology (ANStek) plans to deal out dividends of NT$2.30 (US$0.08) for 2012, including NT$1.80 in cash and NT$0.50 in shares, according to the company.

Intel uses Hillcrest Labs motion control for set-top boxes

Mar 19, 15:46

Hillcrest Labs has announced that Intel's just-unveiled reference design kit for IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) and media servers will use its motion control technology.

Global Unichip unveils new 28nm data converter IP family

Mar 19, 15:02

Global Unichip has announced a new family of silicon proven digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and analog-to-digital converters (ADC) IP targeting TSMC's 28nm high performance mobile...

Silicon Works expands presence in global LCD driver IC market

Mar 19, 13:53

South Korea-based Silicon Works saw revenues from the LCD driver IC segment jump by over 100% in 2012, according to Digitimes Research in a recent report, which found that its fellow...

Second-generation Nexus 7 to use Qualcomm processor

Mar 18, 22:30

Google's and Asustek Computer's co-branded second-generation Nexus 7 tablet reportedly has adopted a solution from Qualcomm instead of Nvidia, which was the processor supplier of...

Korea FTC OKs MediaTek, MStar merger

Mar 18, 21:25

South Korea's antitrust agency Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has approved MediaTek's proposal to merge with MStar Semiconductor, according to the companies.

MediaTek to see revenues rally 50% sequentially in March

Mar 18, 13:12

MediaTek is expected to see its revenues surge 50% sequentially to over NT$9 billion (US$302.4 million) in March, powered by shipments of its quad-core MT6589 smartphone solutions,...

ARM Greater China to enjoy double-digit shipment growth across several product lines

Mar 18, 12:50

ARM's Greater China president Allen Wu expects the company's shipments of products such as application processors, embedded applications and micro controller units (MCU) in the Greater...

ARM to help second-tier IC designers catch up with Qualcomm, Nvidia in 2014, say Taiwan makers

Mar 15, 14:14

ARM is reportedly considering plans to provide complete platform solutions to help second-tier ARM-architecture IC design houses, mainly Taiwan-based MediaTek and China-based Allwinner...

ARM reportedly will assist its second-tier partners to catch up

Mar 15, 12:19

IC design houses including Elan Microelectronics, Realtek Semiconductor, and Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) are likely to report disappointing revenue results for the first quarter...

Digital TV semiconductor market dips in 2012, says IHS

Mar 15, 10:28

Amid a drop in television demand, the global market for digital television semiconductors (DTV) declined by nearly 6% in 2012, according to IHS iSuppli.

Touch-panel IC supplier EETI to see sales rebound in March

Mar 14, 22:07

Egalax-Empia Technology (EETI), a design house specializing in touch controllers for LCD panels, is expected to see its revenues gain momentum starting March. Revenues are set to...

TV IC demand picking up

Mar 14, 21:27

Demand for TV-use IC solutions is picking up as first- and second-tier TV brands are gearing up to boost their inventories prior to the arrival of China's Labor Day holiday, according...

IC distributor ANStek eyeing market potential in industrial electronics sector

Mar 14, 15:15

Taiwan-based IC distributor Answer Technology (ANStek) is eyeing the market potential in Taiwan's industrial electronics sector and has seen a pick-up in orders from IC testing and...

Analog IC vendor On-Bright looks to strong performance in 1Q13

Newswatch - Mar 14, 12:06

Analog IC design house On-Bright Electronics expects its performance for the first quarter of 2013 to be better than that of the same period of a year earlier thanks to short lead-time...

Intel leads unexpectedly large decline in 4Q12 semiconductor market inventory, says IHS

Mar 14, 10:37

After reaching a worrisome high in the third quarter of 2012, global semiconductor inventories held by chip suppliers fell at a surprisingly fast rate in the fourth quarter, led by...

Pixart Imaging to snap up revenues of over NT$300 million in March

Mar 13, 22:06

Pixart Imaging is expected to see its revenues rebound to over NT$300 million (US$10.09 million) in March from NT$278 million in the previous month, powered by increasing shipments...

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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;...
Photo: Company, Mar 4.
Toshiba 20MP BSI CIS
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...
Photo: Company, Jan 7.
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...
Photo: Michael McManus, May 10.
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...
Photo: Michael McManus, May 10.
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...
Photo: Michael McManus, May 10.

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Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to talk about using MEMS devices for energy harvesting, and how the application could...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG), about the use of MEMS for energy-saving applications. Lightman pointed out opportunities...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset market, Broadcom's mobile solutions have found their way into the supply...
Using digital to control power: Q&A with iWatt
When it comes to digital power, iWatt claims that it is the inventor of digital power control for AC/DC. The company notes that its technology allows its customers to eliminate BOM...
The next 50 years: Q&A with Rohm CEO Satoshi Sawamura
Rohm Semiconductor is looking to go beyond traditional practices and strategies while insisting on its original purpose "quality first" to provide best products and services,...