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Tuesday 22 January 2013
Nanya says 12-inch fab capacity for fabless customers sufficient
Nanya Technology is confident that it will have enough capacity for its IC design customers, according to company president Charles Kau.
Wednesday 9 January 2013
Fabless firms outperform IDMs in 2012, says IC Insights
Combined sales generated by fabless IC companies worldwide increased 6% in 2012, while those by IDMs decreased 4% on year, according to a recent IC Insights report. Overall revenues...
Tuesday 6 November 2012
ProMOS to sell fab by year-end, become fabless
ProMOS Technologies has announced plans to sell its 12-inch wafer plant and related facilities through open bidding by the end of 2012, in a move to become a fabless memory-IC comp...
Friday 13 April 2012
Spreadtrum a star performer among fabless IC firms in 2011, says IC Insights
Fifteen out of the top-25 fabless IC companies outperformed the total 2011 fabless IC sales growth rate of 4%, according to IC Insights. The top 25 players represented 80% of the...
Thursday 23 February 2012
ATO Solution to launch 256Mb SLC NAND Flash - for the first time in fabless industry
ATO Solution stated that it has launched 256Mb (SLC) NAND Flash Memory products developed based on its own design technology.
Thursday 5 January 2012
Chip inventory declines as suppliers adjust to slow market conditions, says IHS
Chip inventories held by semiconductor suppliers declined in the third quarter of 2011, putting a halt to the steady expansion of the previous seven quarters, as the industry cut...
Wednesday 28 December 2011
NTT Docomo to form fabless JV with 5 chip firms
NTT Docomo has reached a basic agreement with five companies - Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Electronics - to establish a fabless...
Friday 2 September 2011
MediaTek August sales likely to grow over 10% sequentially
MediaTek's consolidated revenues will likely rebound to over NT$8 billion (US$276 million) in August, up more than 10% on month, according to market watchers. The fabless IC firm...
Friday 24 June 2011
MediaTek 3Q11 revenues expected to grow 15%
Fabless IC firm MediaTek's third-quarter revenues are expected to reach between NT$24 billion (US$830 million) and NT$27 billion, up at least 15% on quarter, according to market sources...
Thursday 23 June 2011
SPIL concerned about client overbooking, cautious about 3Q11
The Japan disaster in March prompted IDM and fabless companies to overbook chips, but the inventory build-up has not been consumed due to a slow second quarter, according to Bough...
Monday 13 June 2011
China fabless market set to double by 2015, says IHS iSuppli
Driven by strong domestic demand and soaring exports, China's fabless semiconductor market is on a high-growth trajectory with revenues set to double from 2010 to 2015, according...
Thursday 9 June 2011
MediaTek May sales decline over 10% sequentially
Fabless IC firm MediaTek has reported NT$6.59 billion (US$230 million) in consolidated revenues for May 2011, down 13.5% on month. Consolidated revenues for the first five months...
Friday 13 May 2011
Fabless IC firm Sonix expects 50% growth in 2Q11 revenues
Sonic Technology, which designs and develops consumer-oriented ICs such as microcontrollers (MCUs), webcam chips and voice ICs, has projected that revenues will climb almost 50% sequentially...
Thursday 5 May 2011
Ralink 2Q11 shipments to rise over 20% sequentially
Fabless IC firm Ralink Technology expects its shipments including WLAN and xDSL chips to top 36 million units in the second quarter of 2011, up more than 20% from the 29.9 million...
Monday 25 April 2011
IC Insights lists top-20 fabless IC suppliers in 2010
The top 20 fabless IC firms represented 77% of the US$59.9 billion worldwide fabless IC sales in 2010, down 2pp from 2009, according to IC Insights.