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Tuesday 14 November 2017
Qualcomm rejects Broadcom acquisition bid
Qualcomm has announced that its board of directors has unanimously rejected the unsolicited proposal announced by Broadcom Limited ("Broadcom") on November 6, 2017, saying the bid...
Tuesday 14 November 2017
HY Electronic to acquire major stake in TGI
Power discrete component supplier HY Electronic specializing in diode products has disclosed plans to acquire a 70% stake in Taiwan GPP (TGI) for NT$350 million (US$11.52 million).
Monday 13 November 2017
Qualcomm signs purchase MoUs with China smartphone vendors
Qualcomm has announced that it has signed three non-binding memoranda of understanding (MoU) wherein Xiaomi Technology, Oppo Mobile Telecommunications and Vivo Communication Technology...
Monday 13 November 2017
Android camp reportedly seeking to renegotiate royalties with Qualcomm
The Android camp could follow the steps of Apple to temporarily suspend royalty payments to Qualcomm aiming to force the US-based chip vendors back to the negotiating table to work...
Monday 13 November 2017
Qualcomm and Alibaba showcase cloud-to-device integration to help drive LTE IoT in China
Qualcomm has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, and Alibaba have ported Alibaba Cloud Link One to run on the Qualcomm MDM9206 global multi-mode LTE IoT modem. This...
Friday 10 November 2017
Andes Technology joins Globalfoundries FD-SOI ecosystem
Processor IP provider Andes Technology has teamed up with Globalfoundries to provide low-power solutions for the foundry's 22nm FD-SOI process technology to jointly deepen their deployment...
Friday 10 November 2017
Taiwan IC designers vying for 8-inch foundry supply
Taiwan fabless IC firms are aggresively vying to secure capacity at 8-inch foundries to meet increasing orders in 2018, particularly for MCU and MOSFET chips needed to support a variety...
Friday 10 November 2017
UMC posts record October revenues
Pure-play IC foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$13.81 billion (US$457.6 million) for October 2017, rising 16.4% sequentially and hitting...
Friday 10 November 2017
FocalTech optimistic about TDDI chip demand for all-screen devices in 2018
Full in-cell display module makers have been improving yield rates to lower their production costs for all-screen panels, which will see wider adoption by smartphones and tablets in...
Thursday 9 November 2017
China-based Zhaoxin Semiconductor expects CPU sales to double in 2017, 2018
Zhaoxin Semiconductor, a leading China maker of x86 processors, expects its annual CPU sales to double for two consecutive years in 2017-18 due to its successful penetration into government...
Thursday 9 November 2017
China AI unicorn Cambricon to launch smart chips using TSMC 16nm process
China AI chip unicorn Cambricon Technologies plans to launch MLU machine learning series processor chips for cloud-based applications within the next 18 months, with the chips to be...
Thursday 9 November 2017
Digitimes Research: Panel makers looking to niche large-size applications
With to a lack of growth momentum in the traditional mainstream TV and monitor markets, most flat panel makers have paid more attention on the development niche applications for large-sized...
Thursday 9 November 2017
iPhone X costs Apple US$370 in materials, says IHS Markit
Teardown engineers at IHS Markit have completed their preliminary physical dissection of the new Apple iPhone X and found that the model A1865 version of the smartphone with 64GB of...
Thursday 9 November 2017
Oppo, Xiaomi to adopt 3D sensors for smartphones in 2018
China-based vendors Oppo and Xiaomi Technology will adopt 3D sensing solutions for smartphones to be launched in 2018, with such solutions to be developed by Himax Technologies via...
Thursday 9 November 2017
Egistec 3Q17 profits hike
Fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology (Egistec) has announced net profits for the third quarter hiked 132% sequentially to NT$174 million (US$5.76 million). EPS for the quarter...