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Monday 3 July 2017
Etron to focus on specialized DRAM products
Niche-memory IC design house Etron Technology will transform itself into a dedicated developer of specialized DRAM memory chips, according to company chairman Nicky Lu.
Thursday 22 June 2017
Taiwan IC design houses seeing orders pick up
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen customer orders pick up on seasonality with some expected to post sequential revenue growth of 10% or more in the third quarter, according to...
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Nuvoton 2Q17 sales likely to hit record
Fabless IC firm Nuvoton Technology is expected to see its second-quarter 2017 revenues hit an all-time high driven by robust MCU shipments, according to market sources.
Thursday 1 June 2017
Tsinghua Unigroup chair criticizes Qualcomm for forming JV with local chipmaker
Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo has criticized Qualcomm's intention of forming a joint venture with fabless chip firm Leadcore Technology and two local investment firms in China,...
Thursday 1 June 2017
MediaTek to enter mass production of 12nm mobile chips by end of 2017
MediaTek is expected to start mass production of 12nm mobile chips manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company around the end of 2017, according to industry sources...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Globalfoundries and Chengdu partner to expand FD-SOI ecosystem in China
Globalfoundries and the Chengdu municipality have announced an investment to spur innovation in China's semiconductor industry. The partners plan to build a FD-SOI ecosystem including...
Thursday 18 May 2017
MediaTek launches chipset supporting Google Assistant and Android Things
MediaTek has introduced its newest full-featured chipset - MT8516 - designed to enable Voice Assistant Devices (VADs) and smart speakers, including the Google Assistant. MediaTek also...
Thursday 11 May 2017
TSMC obtains 12nm chip orders from fabless firms
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has secured 12nm chip orders from Nvidia, MediaTek, Silicon Motion Technology and HiSilicon for the fabless firms' different chip...
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Infineon rides automotive wave into top-10 semi supplier ranking, IC Insights says
IC Insights has released its list of the world's top-10 semiconductor sales leaders excluding pure-play foundries in the first quarter of 2017. In total, the top-10 semiconductor suppliers...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Ardentec breaks ground for new plant in Nanjing
Taiwan-based Ardentec, which specializes in testing services for logic and memory chips, has recently broken ground for a new plant in Nanjing, China where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Thursday 13 April 2017
Taiwan fabless IC firms seeing ramp-up of orders from China
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders placed by their China-based smartphone customers ramp up for the second quarter, with demand coming from China's first-tier smartphone...
Thursday 13 April 2017
China fabless firm Montage Tech gearing up for data centers and cloud computing
China-based fabless IC firm Montage Technology is engaged in the development of processors and hybrid DIMM solutions for data centers and cloud computing, and is targeting to enter...
Monday 10 April 2017
Taiwan MCU and consumer IC firms post brisk March revenues
MCU and consumer IC design house Holtek Semiconductor saw its March revenues climb to a new record high, while revenues at fellow companies Generalplus Technology and Weltrend Semiconductor...
Friday 17 March 2017
China fabless IC firms expand global market share in 2016
While US companies still hold the largest share of fabless company IC sales, the largest fabless IC market share increase has come from China-based suppliers, according to IC Insig...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Fabless firm Davicom 4Q16 pre-tax profits increase
Taiwan-based Davicom Semiconductor, a fabless chipmaker specializing in networking and communications chips, saw its pre-tax profits surge about 80% sequentially in the fourth quarter...