Taiwan-based IC design houses will target the smartphone, tablet and LED lighting sectors in order to ramp up their sales and earnings in 2014, according to industry observers. The performance of most IC vendors has been better than ...
Tags: Smartphone, Tablet
China's software industry generated revenues of CNY2.284 trillion (US$370 billion) in January-September 2013, growing 23.7% on year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Exports of software products and ...
Homegrown Chinese mobile phone makers have seen a high-end chip supply shortage become a big obstacle on their expansion way. Gu Wenjun, a senior analyst with iSuppli, said in an interview recently that China imported USD 192 billion ...
Tags: Smartphone, Chip
Taiwan-based IC design houses including Macroblock, Nuvoton Technology, On-Bright Electronics, Pixart Imaging and Weltrend Semiconductor all expect to post sequential growth in September revenues, buoyed by a pull-in of orders coming from ...
Tags: Electronics, Semiconductor, LED bulbs
China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market
Taiwan-based analog IC design houses have seen a pull-in of short lead-time orders from their notebook clients, estimating that orders for September are about 30% higher than the prior month's levels, according industry sources. Intel is ...
Tags: IC Suppliers, Notebooks
China's software industry generated total revenues of CNY1.661 trillion (US$270.7 billion) in January-July 2013, growing 23.8% on year, according to statistics by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The total ...
Tags: Software Industry
IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor is expected to see its third-quarter revenues climb to the highest quarterly level for 2013, thanks to growing shipments of its NFC phone chips and LED driver ICs, according to market sources. ...
Tags: NFC Phone Chips, LED Driver ICs
Growing demand for LED backlight products will continue to buoy the revenue performance of LED driver IC suppliers Macroblock and On-Bright Electronics in the third quarter of 2013, according to industry sources. Macroblock saw its ...
Tags: Macroblock, LED backlight products
Taiwan-based IC design companies have seen their order visibility for September remain unclear, predicting third-quarter sales will grow within a range of 10% sequentially, according to industry sources. Recent reports of slow sales of ...
Tags: IC Design Firms, IC vendors
SEMICON Taiwan is set to open in September amidst an improving global and regional outlook for 2013 and 2014 that sees Taiwan remaining the largest and strongest market for semiconductor manufacturing. SEMICON Taiwan 2013, to be held ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market, Electrical
Alexander Duesener, v-p of worldwide field operations in EMEA for Cadence Design Systems believes chip designers have a crucial role in maintaining Europe’s strengths in wireless and automotive systems. The biggest challenge in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Chip Design
Sondrel, the system-to-silicon IC design consultancy, has announced a partnership with the University of Nottingham which will develop new IC design talent in China. The multi-million dollar programme will provide students based at the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor
Emerging Irish fabless semiconductor technology company Ikon Semiconductor this week revealed a new integrated circuit (IC) design that could prove vital to the growing global LED lighting industry. Ikon’s new IC was unveiled at the ...
Tags: LED lighting market, LED lighting, LED lighting industry