Fabless IC firm Himax Imaging reportedly has landed orders for CMOS image sensors for use in Dell notebooks, and has also cut into the supply chain of China handset brands including...
Analog IC design house Richtek Technology has dismissed a recent Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report indicating it is looking to acquire Capella Microsystems,...
Maxtek Technology will begin to ship MStar Semiconductor's chipsets for set-top boxes (STBs) to networking customers in the second quarter of 2011, and shipments will expand substantially...
The now well known trend of IC manufacturers abandoning the IDM fab business model to become fabless or fab-lite has resulted in, or is the result of, depending on the point of view,...
There are 13 fabless IC companies expected to register more than US$1 billion in sales this year, compared to 10 companies in 2009 and eight in 2008, according to IC Insights.
Chingis Technology, a fabless chipmaker of embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions, will list on Taiwan's emerging stock market on October 29. The company mainly supplies 4Mb...
Lantiq, the spin-off of Infineon's former wireline chip unit, has announced the latest of its 802.11n WLAN solutions with an integrated processor, a low-power VDSL2 chipset built...
Fabless chip designer MediaTek has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) to support the Android mobile device platform developed by Google, according to a company announcement.
Capella Microsystems, a fabless design house specializing in analog and analog/digital mixed signal ICs for optical systems, will begin trading on Taiwan's OTC (over-the-counter)...
Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) has announced the extension of its Europractice IC service with the offering of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's)...
An increasing number of fabless chip companies and IDMs are considering copper wire for some new products, though a number of issues exist regarding this transition, according to...
Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on August 6 announced they have entered into an agreement to transfer product fabrication...
From Paris to Tokyo, from the biggest broad-line suppliers to the most modest boutiques, from high-fliers serving hot markets to low-profile players plodding away in slow-growth segments...
MediaTek is expected to introduce a lineup of new chip solutions for WCDMA handsets and digital still cameras (DSCs) soon, with volume production slated for the latter half of 2009,...