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...
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...
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...
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...
NTT Docomo has reached a basic agreement with five companies - Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Electronics - to establish a fabless...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...