Front projector vendors are seeing chip shortage, especially for DLP chips from Texas Instruments (TI), amid surging demand since the second quarter of 2009, and they expect the shortage...

Samsung Electronics in the second quarter expanded its share of the global market for standalone applications processor chips used in handsets due to rising sales of Apple's iPhone,...

Demand for pico projectors is estimated to take off in 2010 with DLP and LCoS being the mainstream technologies, according to market observers.

Global smartphone shipments in 2009 will reach 183.6 million units, accounting for 17% of the total mobile handset markets, according to Techno Systems Research (TSR). While overall...

Most major global semiconductor suppliers that have reported second-quarter results are currently holding lean levels of chip inventory, putting them in a strong competitive position...

Most handset chipset solution providers around the globe are experiencing a new wave of short lead-time orders as branded handset players anticipate a 30% sequential growth in the...

Daniel Alegre, vice president, Asia Pacific sales and operations at Google, will attend the CEO summit of Computex Taipei 2009 and also deliver a speech on the latest development...

Taiwan-based passive component maker Holy Stone has reported that it has sold its distribution rights and related equipment for certain Texas Instruments (TI) products to Singapore-based...

Taiwan-based Young Optics, a subsidiary of backlight unit (BLU) maker Coretronic, and Himax Technologies, a subsidiary of LCD panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), have extended...

The chip market will amount to just over US$200 billion in 2009, the size of the market nine years ago, according to Databeans.

Networking IC designer Ralink Technology has recently announced that its RT3052, a highly integrated single-chip 802.11n Wi-Fi router with firmware and interfaces, has been optimized...

Texas Instruments (TI) may resume placing orders with its contract partners in Taiwan, including foundry service provider Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and packaging...

Broadcom ranked at the top of ABI Research's latest worldwide GPS IC vendors evaluation.

Wafer packaging and testing firm Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has not followed fellow industry players in revising its guidance for the first quarter of 2009 despite rising...

The global power management (PW) and driver IC market will experience a revenue decline of around 3% in 2009, mainly due to the current slowdown in consumer spending, IMS Research...