Chinese car vendors have asked chip suppliers, including foreign ones, to place wafer starts for their demand with China-based foundries as China accelerates its push for IC self-sufficiency,...
China-based IC design houses, such as Espressif Systems, have stepped up their deployment in the Wi-Fi chip market by targeting a wide range of IoT device applications.
IC design houses are conservative about demand prospects for the first half of 2023, as inventory adjustments at their downstream customers engaged in the PC and handset markets are...
TSMC has seen its major fabless customers start cutting back wafer starts for 2023, which may prompt the pure-play foundry to revise its sales outlook at an investors conference in...
Specialty DRAM demand for mainly consumer electronics device applications is unlikely to pick up until 2023, and may see an L-shaped recovery, according to industry sources.
Companies specializing in probe cards for wafer tests and load boards for final tests may see their profits erode in 2023 as chipmakers including foundry TSMC and fabless firm MediaTek...
Taiwan's IC design houses including MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor have sharply increased their new development projects for the next 1-2 years despite...
China-based logic IC foundries have already initiated a 10-20% price cut, as their fabless customers continue scaling back orders, according to industry sources.
Renesas will acquire India-based 4D radar technology provider to complement its ADAS offering, and Reliance's upcoming 5G rollout may repeat its history of disrupting the Indian mobile...
MOSFET backend specialists have seen their capacity utilization rates fall to as low as about 60% since the latter part of August, due to a substantial drop in demand for low- and...
Amid India's eagerness to revive local mobile phone brands to build a complete mobile ecosystem, fabless designers and analysts call for more R&D from India's local mobile brands...
Pure-play foundries Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) have decided to slow down the establishment of their new fabs, as customers...
Taiwan-based pure-play foundries intend to maintain their prices, despite slowdowns in orders from their fabless customers, according to sources in the IC design industry.
Foundries particularly second- and third-tier players continue to see their fabless clients scale back orders that will drag down further their fab capacity utilization in the fourth...
Display driver IC (DDI) specialist Himax Technologies, which saw its revenue decline 24.3% sequentially in the second quarter, expects to post another sequential drop of a larger...
