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Wednesday 27 July 2011
Elan aims for 18-20% share of notebook touch controller IC market in 2011
Elan Microelectronics expects to ship four million touch controller ICs for notebook applications in August and total shipments of such ICs in 2011 to account for 18-20% of the global...
Tuesday 26 July 2011
JMicron develops SATA 6Gbps controller IC for SSDs
Taiwan-based JMicron Technology has successfully developed SATA 6Gbps controller ICs for use in solid state drives (SSD), and will begin small-volume shipments in the third quarter,...
Thursday 23 June 2011
EETI touch solutions making inroads in China tablet PC market
IC design house Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) expects its touch controller solutions to begin making inroads into the white-box tablet PC segment in China in the third quarter of...
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Taiwan-based IC designers accelerating development of touch controllers
Taiwan-based IC design houses are accelerating their development of touch controller ICs for related smartphone and tablet PC applications which may result in explosive growth in revenues...
Wednesday 27 April 2011
IC distributor Zenitron counts on NAND flash and touch controller sales in 2011
IC distributor Zenitron is positive about the business outlook for the entire year of 2011 and expects strong demand for NAND flash and touch controller ICs from the tablet PC and...
Wednesday 13 April 2011
TI announces first USB-IF certified four-port host controller
Texas Instruments (TI) has announced that it is the first semiconductor company to receive certification from the USB Implementer's Forum (USB-IF) for its SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0)...
Thursday 7 April 2011
Controller IC maker EETI posts record revenues in March
Controller IC maker Galax-empia Technology (EETI) saw its revenues hit a record high of NT$124 million (US$4.25 million) in March, up 36.3% sequentially. For the first quarter of 2011,...
Friday 18 March 2011
Taiwan firms eyeing USB 3.0 host controller orders
With Renesas suspending operations at several plants in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Taiwan-based controller IC suppliers are speeding up the process...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
MediaTek invests in China-based touch controller IC maker
MediaTek has announced that its overseas subsidiary Gaintech has invested US$2 million in China-based capacitive touch-controlled solution vendor Goodix on behalf of the parent com...
Friday 4 March 2011
Commentary: iPad 2 launch could mean less business for Taiwan-based IC design houses
The launch of the highly expected iPad 2 indeed serves as a major boost to the share prices of Apple-concept issues but certainly not for those outside the Apple camp, especially those...
Friday 25 February 2011
IC designers positive about touch-panel controller IC shipments
IC designers Elan Microelectronics, Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) and ITE Tech expect their shipments of touch-panel controllers to start expanding in second-half 2011, according...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Cypress introduces controller IC for pen-input on capacitive touch panel
Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new touch component, the TrueTouch controller, that will support pen input on capacitive touch panel.
Thursday 30 December 2010
Micron reportedly taps Phison, Skymedi for eMMC NAND
Micron Technology is looking to work with memory controller IC suppliers Phison Electronics and Skymedi for its managed NAND portfolio that supports the eMMC standard for mobile devices...
Monday 13 December 2010
MicroSD card controller orders buoy Skymedi sales in November
Unlike fellow flash device controller suppliers Phison Electronics and Solid State System (3S) which experienced on-month sales drops, Skymedi has announced a 3.4% growth in November...
Friday 10 December 2010
Phison, 3S November revenues down slightly on-month
Taiwan-based Phison Electronics and Solid State System (3S), which design and makes controllers for NAND flash memory integrated into products such as flash memory cards and disk drives,...