MStar to buy back outstanding shares as treasury stocks

Mar 22, 01:00

MStar Semiconductor on May 21 announced that its board has approved plans to repurchase 4,003 lots of outstanding shares as treasury stock at an average price of NT$240.03 (US$8.11)...

MStar posts 9% sales drop in February 2011

Mar 11, 14:17

Fabless IC firm MStar Semiconductor has reported NT$2.375 billion (US$82 million) in consolidated revenues for February 2011, down 9.7% on month and 5.7% on year.

MStar shipping touch controllers to handset makers, says paper

Newswatch - Mar 2, 13:50

IC design house MStar Semiconductor has begun shipping touch controller ICs to makers of feature phones and plans to deliver touch controllers for the smartphone and tablet PC segments...

MediaTek to take on MStar with 40nm single-chip 2.5G solutions

Feb 17, 13:57

MediaTek will take on rival MStar Semiconductor in the 2.5G handset chipset segment with single-chip solutions built using 40nm process technology soon, according to industry sourc...

MediaTek sales down in January, MStar up

Feb 11, 02:15

IC design firms MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor have reported mixed results for January 2011.

Maxtek to distribute MStar products in 2Q11

Feb 10, 01:30

Maxtek Technology will begin to ship MStar Semiconductor's chipsets for set-top boxes (STBs) to networking customers in the second quarter of 2011, and shipments will expand substantially...

Taiwan IC design houses January sales affected by China snowstorms

Jan 25, 12:08

A number of Taiwan-based IC design houses have confirmed that sales increase in January will be limited due to heavy snowstorms in China, which could affect the shopping season prior...

Second-tier IC packagers lower quotes to woo orders from IC designers

Jan 20, 12:07

Second-tier IC packaging and testing companies have lowered their quotes by 5-10% on average recently in order to attract more orders from IC design houses who have been switching...

MStar announces stock buyback

Jan 20, 01:05

IC design firm MStar Semiconductor has decided to buy back its common shares from the Taiwan stock market to avert further slumps in its share price.

IC vendors set to cut prices as notebook, DRAM and PCB makers mull hikes

Jan 19, 13:48

While the entire electronics industry supply chain is currently set in a price spiral with notebook makers already successfully raising their OEM quotes for the first quarter of 2011,...

MStar 4Q10 sales fall short of market expectations, says report

Newswatch - Jan 11, 15:12

IC design house MStar Semiconductor saw consolidated revenues slip 12.9% sequentially to NT$8.2 billion (US$268 million) in the fourth quarter of 2010, missing an estimated 5% decrease...

MediaTek and MStar to suffer on-year revenue declines in 1Q11, say sources

Jan 10, 11:57

MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor are likely to suffer on-year declines in revenues for the first quarter of 2011 as the order visibility for the first three months of this year is...

Honeymoon period for MStar stock ends early

Dec 29, 01:35

IC design house MStar Semiconductor saw its share price dip below NT$300 (US$10.17) on the company's third day of trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).

Thirteen fabless IC suppliers 2010 sales top US$1 billion, says IC Insights

Dec 22, 14:05

There are 13 fabless IC companies expected to register more than US$1 billion in sales this year, compared to 10 companies in 2009 and eight in 2008, according to IC Insights.

MStar aims to be top-ranking handset and STB chipset vendor

Dec 22, 13:57

MStar Semiconductor will aim to become the top ranking chip supplier for handsets and set-top boxes (STBs) in the coming years, company chairman Wayne Liang said at an investors conference...

MediaTek takes on MStar in TV chip segment in China and emerging markets

Dec 17, 15:41

MediaTek has continued to strengthen the penetration of its chips for high-end, connected and 3D TVs in China and other emerging markets in cooperation with Sony, Sharp, Samsung Electronics...

MStar to begin trading on TSE soon

Dec 14, 02:15

IC design house MStar Semiconductor is scheduled to begin trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on December 24, 2010. The company has set its per share listing price at NT$310...

Mag.Layers launches 3G antenna switch modules

Nov 19, 09:45

Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics has started small volume shipments of 3G antenna switch modules, and expects the new product segment to become the company's major growth driver in...

Trident dominates 2010 TV chip market, says iSuppli

Nov 18, 16:32

Capitalizing on new technology and customers gained from its acquisition of certain assets from NXP Semiconductors in late 2009, US-based semiconductor supplier Trident Microsystems...

MediaTek and MStar competing for IPTV solution orders from Skyworth, says paper

Newswatch - Sep 6, 15:25

IC design houses MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor are competing neck-and-neck on an order for 600,000 units of IPTV solutions to be released by China-based branded LCD TV vendor Skyworth,...

MStar applies to list on TSE

Aug 23, 11:03

MStar Semiconductor, an IC design house registered in the Cayman Islands but with its headquarters located in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, has filed an application with the Taiwan Stock...

Spreadtrum, MStar and Infineon gaining ground in China white-box handset market

Aug 6, 10:26

Handset solutions vendors, including Spreadtrum Communications, MStar Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies, have gained ground in the white-box handset market at the expense of...

MStar looks to shipment momentum for 2.5G solutions in 2H10, says paper

Newswatch - Jun 17, 17:09

MStar Semiconductor is currently shipping 2.5G handset solutions at a rate of one million units a month, with shipment volumes to gradually to expand to five million units a month...

MediaTek and MStar ready to launch 3D TV chips

Apr 30, 15:08

IC design houses MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor are both ready to launch chipset solutions for 3D TVs of which sales are expected to gain momentum in the second half of 2010, according...

Six Taiwan companies ranked as top-25 fabless IC suppliers worldwide in 2009, says IC Insights

Jan 20, 16:46

Taiwan-based MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies, Realtek Semiconductor, MStar Semiconductor and Richtek Technology are ranked as top-25 fabless IC suppliers worldwide...

MediaTek, MStar to see strong orders from China for Lunar New Year

Dec 30, 12:22

IC design houses MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor are expected to see an influx of orders for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday with the China government announcing plans to increase...

GPS chip vendors eyeing integrated platforms or portable mobile device segments, say Taiwan makers

Dec 9, 14:20

Global and Taiwan-based providers of GPS chipset solutions vendors, which are facing increasing price competition in the GPS PND segment, are either shifting their focus to the development...

MediaTek to see challenges in China market

Sep 9, 12:26

MediaTek is expected to be challenged in the China market by decreasing demand partly due to high inventory levels and price competition from Taiwan-based MStar Semiconductor, despite...

System makers freeze GPS chip orders for MStar, sources claim

Aug 10, 13:51

MStar Semiconductor has yet to settle disputes with its customers who experienced issues with their devices adopting the IC designer's GPS chips, according to industry sources. Most...

TV related IC designers to see strong shipment growth in 3Q09

Newswatch - Jul 6, 16:08

MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor are expected to see significant growth in TV chip shipments in third-quarter 2009, while Novatek Microelectronics' shipments of large-size LCD driver...

Taiwan market: Government imposes quality inspection on PND devices after MStar outage

Jul 1, 16:29

The Taiwan government has imposed a quality inspection measure on all GPS PND devices for sale in Taiwan, according to sources at the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection...

DTV semiconductor market suffers decline in 2008, says iSuppli

Jan 16, 11:03

DTV semiconductor industry revenues declined in 2008 as the overall woes of the broader economy cut consumer demand, limiting total shipments and revenues for the year. Global DTV...

MStar looks to challenge MediaTek in white-box handset baseband chip market

Sep 26, 12:09

According to market watchers, Taiwan IC design house MStar has shipped handset baseband chips to China white-box handset customers priced almost 30% lower than MediaTek's chips. In...