Foundry capacity supply will remain tight in 2022 as global IC shortage has yet to ease and IC designers continue to seek more capacity support, although demand for certain chips...
OLED display driver IC demand has been ramping up for not only handsets but also tablets and wearables, with the chip supply already becoming tight, according to industry sources.
Taiwan-based display driver IC backend specialists Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have both stepped up their purchases of high-end testing equipment to satisfy growing...
TDDI chip demand for automotive applications is set to boom in 2022, encouraging suppliers including Synaptics, Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies and FocalTech Systems...
OLED display driver ICs (DDI) supply may fall short of demand in 2022, with the chip shortage likely to disrupt shipments for smartphones, according to industry sources.
TV-related IC demand is expected to pick up as early as the first quarter of 2022 following a slowdown in TV market sales seen since the third quarter of 2021, according to sources...
Taiwan-based display driver IC vendor Novatek Microelectronics plans to hire an additional 400-500 design engineers in 2022 while also increasing pay to expand its talent pool.
With pure-play foundries initiating another price hikes to reflect their continued tight fab capacities, many Taiwan-based IC design houses are finding it increasingly difficult to...
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) is poised to make another 10% upward adjustment in its foundry quotes starting the first quarter of 2022, according to sources at IC...
ChipMOS Technologies continues to see its high-end display driver IC (DDI) testing lines remain fully utilized, but expects to post flat growth in revenues from the DDI segment in...
Display driver IC and SoC design house Novatek Microelectronics has taken a technological lead in OLED DDI (display driver IC) and moved a step further to develop OLED TDDI (touch...
TV SoC demand has started to drop but at a slower pace compared to slowdowns in demand for other TV-use chips, such as display driver ICs, according to industry sources.
Taiwan's display driver IC (DDI) suppliers will likely post sequential decreases in gross margins through the first quarter of 2022, as they encounter more difficulties in passing...
Many IDMs and pure-play foundries, including second-tier ones, are all poised to expand their fab capacities sparking concerns that the arrival of the additional capacities could...
Taiwan-based display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists expect to post flat sequential revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2021, as tight foundry capacity constrains their fabless...
