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Thursday 11 January 2018
Global fingerprint-enabled smartphone shipments hit 920 million units in 2017
Global shipments of smartphones with fingerprint sensors totaled 920 million units in 2017, representing a penetration rate of 64%, and shipments of such smartphones are likely to...
Thursday 11 January 2018
IC analysis service suppliers IST, MA-tek see robust revenues in 2017
Taiwan's dedicated semiconductor materials analysis and IC debugging services providers Integrated Service Technology (IST) and Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek) have reported...
Thursday 11 January 2018
STMicroelectronics selects Globalfoundries 22FDX to extend FD-SOI platform
Globalfoundries and STMicroelectronics have announced that ST has selected GF's 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform to support its next-generation of processor solutions for industrial...
Wednesday 10 January 2018
MediaTek unveils edge AI platform
MediaTek has uveiled its edge computing NeuroPilot AI (artificial intelligence) platform. Through a combination of hardware and software, an AI processing unit (APU ), and NeuroPilot...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Elan revenues rise on year in December
Elan Microelectronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$605 million (US$20.46 million) for December 2017, representing a 4.56% drop on month and 12.93% increase on year.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
AMD, Nvidia releases of new GPUs to benefit Taiwan OSAT players
As GPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia showcase their prowess at CES 2018, back-end service providers, such as Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics, are expected...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Third-party smartphone AP vendors to face growing hardship in 2018
With smartphone brands including Apple, Samsung Electronics and Huawei already moving to advanced 5nm and 7nm processes for their in-house developed application processors (APs),...
Monday 8 January 2018
Global 3D sensing market to reach US$9-10 billion by 2020
Global market value for 3D sensing technology, which has caught attention since Apple unveiled iPhone X with face-recognition functionality in early November 2017, will increase to...
Monday 8 January 2018
Taiwan businesses may record impressive M&A growth in 2018
Taiwan businesses have performed aggressively in conducting mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at home and abroad over the past year, and a spate of factors such as cross-domain integrations...
Friday 5 January 2018
Compeq revenues rise 19.7% on year in December
PCB maker Compeq Manufacturing has reported consolidated revenues of NT$5.71 billion (US$192.43 million) for December 2017, representing a 1.28% drop on month, but a 19.7% increase...
Friday 5 January 2018
Realtek sees on-year rise in December 2017 revenues
Audio chip developer Realtek Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.36 billion (US$113.23 million) for December 2017, representing a 10.87% drop on month, but 12.1%...
Friday 5 January 2018
Altek to showcase 3D-depth sensing solution at CES 2018
Digitial camera ODM and digital imaging solution provider Altek will showcase AL6100, a 3D-depth sensing and algorithm chip solution, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 during...
Friday 5 January 2018
JOLED to start providing OLED panel samples to Asustek
JOLED has disclosed it has started offering its 21.6-inch 4K high-resolution OLED panel samples produced using the printing method to Asustek Computer.
Thursday 4 January 2018
Global smartphone AP shipments to grow 5.1% in 2018, says Digitimes Research
Global smartphone AP shipments are expected to increase 5.1% on year in 2018, with Qualcomm to continue to serve as the top vendor, followed by MediaTek, according to Digitimes Res...
Wednesday 3 January 2018
MediaTek may return to flagship-smartphone chip market in 2H18
Taiwan-based IC design house MediaTek's Helio X series flagship smartphone chipsets are expected to stage a comeback in the second half of 2018 at the earliest to brace for the advent...