Broadcom will stat shipping handset baseband ICs to Nokia by the end of 2009, according to the company's Taiwan country manager Dana McCarty. Samsung Electronics has also begun adopting...
HTC (High Tech Computer) is evaluating the possibility of adding Broadcom to its supplier list of 3.5G chipset solutions to fulfill its goal of introducing more entry-level and mid-range...
MediaTek is expected to be challenged in the China market by decreasing demand partly due to high inventory levels and price competition from Taiwan-based MStar Semiconductor, despite...
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues grow 10% sequentially to surpass NT$12 billion (US$364.74 million) in August due to strong demand from the handset industry in China, according...
Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm, and FPGA designers Altera and Xilinx have reduced their wafer start orders for the fourth calendar quarter of 2009 to their foundry partners, according...
Taiwan smartphone application IC market volume reached 89.37 million units in the second quarter of 2009, up 33.9% sequentially, according to Taipei-based Market Intelligence &...
MediaTek has dismissed a recent newspaper report concerning the IC designer's third-quarter shipment growth. It described the Commercial Times report as speculation.
The battle for the fast-growing mobile semiconductor market will intensify in late 2009 with the introduction of new processors from each camp - ARM and x86, reports In-Stat. Intel...
Although Taiwan-based MediaTek has enjoyed booming sales of ICs used in handsets, ICs used in mobile communications base stations have a significantly better global business prospect...
Order visibility at both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has extended to November 2009, with utilization rates expected...
MediaTek now expects its handset chip shipments to exceed 300 million chips in 2009, compared to its original estimate of 250 million units. The IC designer attributed its upward...
It is possible that High Tech Computer (HTC), in an attempt to enter the low-cost smartphone market, will cooperate with MediaTek for price-competitive handset IC solutions and to...
MediaTek chairman Tsai Ming-Kai has recently talked with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CEO Richard Chang in Shanghai, China for future cooperation,...
Handset chipmaker MediaTek is likely to source power amplifiers (PAs) from Silicon Storage Technology (SST), in addition to Skyworks, according to sources at IC distributors.
Atheros, Realtek Semiconductor and Qualcomm have seen strong demand for networking and handset chips, driving order volumes at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and...
