The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry is expected to drop 1.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2015, due mainly to seasonal factors, according to Digitimes Research. Meanwhile, end-market demand particularly for ...
Tags: IC Design Industry, LCD Driver
Cadence Design Systems Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has collaborated with Lumerical Solutions Inc of Vancouver, BC, Canada and PhoeniX B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands to jointly develop an integrated electronic/photonic design automation ...
In response to China-based Tsinghua Unigroup's interest in combining its two subsidiary IC designers with Taiwan-based MediaTek, Acer founder Stan Shih said that China-based investment in Taiwan-based IC design houses is feasible as long as ...
The global sales of Android-based smartphones have been a disappointment affecting negatively the performance of Taiwan-based IC design houses, according to industry sources. Particularly in China's smartphone market, the share of Android ...
Tags: Android, China market, design, IC
LCD driver IC design specialists including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies, Sitronix Technology, Fitipower Integrated Technology, Raydium Semiconductor and FocalTech Systems have internally revised downward their business ...
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IC demand for tablet PCs has been weak prompting more chip suppliers to phase out their tablet-IC businesses, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. The rising popularity of large-size smartphones has had an adverse impact ...
Tags: Tablet PCs, Smartphones
Silvaco Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a provider of technology computer-aided design (TCAD), circuit simulation and IC CAD electronic design automation (EDA) software tools, is collaborating with the Singapore University of Technology and ...
Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi Technology are expected to increase adoption of in-house-developed ARM-architecture application processors (APs) in their own-brand smartphones. Huawei's subsidiary IC designer HiSilicon Technologies has ...
Tags: Smartphone, IC
Falling product ASPs and gross margins are set to erode Taiwan's fabless IC firms' profitability in 2015, according to industry sources. Foundry chipmakers have seen their production capacities stay loose thus far in 2015, said the ...
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China has begun to implement its investment plans aiming to boost development of the local semiconductor industry, and will inject a total of CNY600 billion (US$19.4 billion) into the industry over the next five years, according to industry ...
IC orders for PCs have remained slow thus far in 2015, whereas orders for handsets and consumer electronics devices are picking up prior to the third quarter peak season, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. PC-related ...
S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
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Capacity utilization rates at 8-inch wafer fabs have fallen at a faster-than-expected pace recently prompting foundry houses to lower their quotes, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. LCD driver IC suppliers have cut ...
Tags: LCD Driver, Analog ICs
IC demand from China's smartphone market is showing signs of a pick-up, as inventories at non-Apple vendors ease, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. Strong sales of Apple's iPhone 6 devices in China resulted in excess ...
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry will rise 13.1% in 2015, thanks mainly to continued-strong demand coming from the smartphone sector, according to Digitimes Research. The output from MediaTek, Taiwan's largest IC design ...
Tags: LCD Driver, IC