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Saturday 4 July 2026

TSMC's median pay trails four smaller IC design houses, filings show

Fabless chip designers dominate the upper ranks of Taiwan's newly disclosed non-managerial employee pay data for fiscal year 2025,...

Friday 3 July 2026

Tsinghua chip veteran’s US$1.8bn 3D AI chip startup targets China’s GPU gap

China's AI chip sector has a heavyweight new entrant: veteran semiconductor figure Shaojun Wei has formally unveiled Shanghai Orient...

Tuesday 30 June 2026

IC design firms brace for uncertain peak season as prices rise

The 2026 peak season for IC design firms remains unclear, with global readers likely to feel the effects through pricier smartphones, PCs, and other devices. Supply-chain costs are...

Thursday 25 June 2026

IC design firms race to secure packaging capacity

IC design firms are scrambling to expand their partner networks as tight packaging and testing capacity remain the most pressing bottleneck in the supply chain. Companies in Taiwan,...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

MediaTek price hike signals broader cost pressure for Taiwan IC design houses

Reports of MediaTek price adjustments appear to confirm a broader pricing trend across Taiwan's IC design sector. Industry sources said many small and mid-sized chip suppliers have...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

MediaTek issues official price hike notice, products facing supply constraints likely to increase first

Taiwanese IC design leader MediaTek has sent a price hike letter to customers, signaling that the current wave of chip price increases is sweeping across the semiconductor market and...

Monday 22 June 2026

ASMedia launches second transformation plan, targets revenue doubling, AI server market expansion

High-speed transmission IC design company ASMedia Technology held its annual shareholders meeting on June 17, completing a full board reshuffle. ASMedia president Che-Wei Lin stated...

Friday 19 June 2026

Interview: Oppstar grows ASIC design ties with Japan, South Korea clientele, plans Taiwan office

Founded in 2014, Oppstar is one of the few Malaysian companies operating at the front end of the semiconductor value chain as an IC...

Monday 15 June 2026

Taiwan's IC design sector posts sharpest gains in years; May data hints at further acceleration into 2H26

Taiwan's fabless semiconductor design sector posted its strongest year-over-year growth figures in years as of May 2026, with a cluster of memory-adjacent and storage chip makers leading...

Friday 12 June 2026

Google TPU orders shift as MediaTek, Marvell, and Broadcom split market

Broadcom has acknowledged it will not win all of Google's TPU orders, highlighting how tensor processing units have become a competitive arena for multiple chipmakers. For global readers,...

Thursday 11 June 2026

Wistron ITS rebrands as WITS to scale chip and AI engineering in software-hardware integration pivot

Wistron ITS has officially changed its name to WITS. Chairman Ching Hsiao pointed out that the rebranding signifies the company's transition from software into the new frontier of...

Tuesday 9 June 2026

Ultraband & NTT-AT sign MOU to boost RF, Power collaboration

Ultraband Technologies, an emerging IC design startup, announced today the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NTT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY...

Friday 5 June 2026

South Korea's only SRAM-CIM IP firm Articron targets edge AI

South Korean semiconductor IP startup Articron is challenging the traditional AI chip design bottleneck by using a memory-centric architecture, with its self-developed SRAM-CIM compute...

Friday 29 May 2026

Arm deepens ties with Taiwan chip designer QBit around edge AI and cybersecurity

Arm EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Will Abbey visited QBit Semiconductor's Taiwan headquarters on May 27, signaling deeper cooperation that could shape future chip design for edge...

Friday 29 May 2026

Malaysia's Oppstar revises AI chip deal, formalizes US$2.9 million design contract

Oppstar Bhd has restructured the delivery framework of an artificial intelligence chip development project with a Yokohama-based client, replacing an earlier tripartite arrangement...

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