High-tech supply chains are encountering the availabilities of different chips that are in varying degrees. Chips such as display driver ICs (DDI) are no longer in tight supply, prompting...

Smartphone sales in the China market slipped 5.4% sequentially to 20.81 million units in September 2021, with non-Chinese brands accounting for less than 6% of the sales, indicating...

Automotive IDMs have notified their clients about 10-20% price hikes for their chips starting 2022 as they continue to face mounting costs for raw materials, according to industry...

Foundry quotes are expected to continue rising but at a slower pace in 2022, according to sources at Taiwan-based pure-play foundries.

IC design houses intend to continue scaling up their inventory levels for specific chips or applications, despite a recent slowdown in end-market demand for consumer devices, according...

Following peak shipments in the second and third quarters, the memory sector has entered a period of correction in the fourth quarter of 2021 that may last for 1-2 quarters, and commodity...

Shipments of display driver ICs (DDI) for Chromebook and large-size TV applications are apparently slowing down on seasonality in the fourth quarter, but the supply of networking...

Notebook inventories held by Acer's channel distributors are pretty low. The PC vendor still has a large backlog of orders from international distributors as uneven inventories across...

Despite uncertainty emerging over the demand outlook for the fourth quarter, Taiwan-based display driver IC (DDI) specialists are all poised to generate signifiant revenue increases...

Most Taiwan makers of passive components are conservative about their revenue performance for the fourth quarter of 2021 due to power cuts in China and the seasonality, according...

Rising wafer ASPs will continue to drive pure-play foundries' profit increases next year, according to industry sources.

The IC industry sees uneven inventory in different segments, with short supply of power management ICs and other mature...

China's government-led electricity restrictions may help ease inventory cost pressure on makers of components that are not in short supply, as they can take the opportunity to raise...

Chipmakers have experienced a worsening shortage of power management ICs and other mature chips, while having relatively high inventories of handset application processors and other...

Memory chip vendors are increasingly under pressure to offload inventory, and have turned aggressive demanding downstream module houses to take delivery of chips starting September,...