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Taiwan IC Makers to Report Revenue Growth for Q2
Mar 23, 2017Taiwan-based consumer IC suppliers are expected to report revenue growth of over 20% sequentially for the second quarter, while handset-related IC firms expect sales to recover from the bottom seen in the first quarter, according to ...
Tags: LCD driver, IC
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China to Enhance Its Fabless IC Design Industry
Mar 18, 2017The "Made in China 2025" (MIC 2025) plan, published by the China State Council in May of 2015, has demonstrated the country's ambition to enhance its fabless IC design industry in terms of market share and technology capability. Major ...
Tags: IC design, mobile device, PC
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Touch Panel Makers Step Into Other Product Lines
Jan 5, 2017First-tier China-based touch panel makers, in view of decreased orders for projected capacitive touch solutions (out-cell) used in smartphones due to increasing adoption of in-cell and on-cell touch solutions, have extended production to ...
Tags: touch panel, AMOLED
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China's Share of Fingerprint Sensor Shipments up
Aug 26, 2016Due to fast growing use of smartphone-based mobile payment services in the China market, both international and domestic vendors, including white-box ones, have adopted fingerprint recognition functions for their smartphones. Consequently, ...
Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, smartphone
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Taiwan's Export Orders Continue Declining in June, But Show Signs to Turn Around Soon
Jul 28, 2016Taiwan’s export orders in June continued dropping, but having showed positive signs to turn around soon. After a 15-month declining streak as of the end of June, Taiwan's overall export orders are likely to show growth in July at ...
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Taiwan IC Design Industry Output Value up 6.7%
May 20, 2016The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry is expected to increase 6.7% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016, thanks to a pick-up in handset demand, according to Digitimes Research. Demand in China's smartphone market is ...
Tags: smartphone, IC
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Fingerprint Recognition Enjoys High Popularity
Mar 23, 2016China-based smartphone vendors have been mostly inclined to adopt fingerprint recognition for their mid-range and high-end models and consequently they will ship an estimated 200-300 smartphones featuring fingerprint-recognizing functions ...
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Taiwan IC Design Houses Gearing up for IoT Boom
Jan 2, 2016Brisk orders for IoT-related products are expected to boost the performance of several Taiwan-based IC design houses specializing in MCUs, power management ICs and wireless transmission chips in 2016, according to industry sources. Elan ...
Tags: IoT devices, IC Design
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New TSMC Fab to Target Orders for Driver ICs
Dec 13, 2015Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) planned 12-inch wafer fab in China could be vying for 16nm chip orders from China's local IC design houses specializing in the development of LCD driver ICs, touchscreen controllers, TDDI ...
Tags: IC industry, LCD driver
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Taiwan IC Design Industry Output Value to Decline
Dec 10, 2015The 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
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China Investment in Taiwan IC Design Houses Is Feasible, Says Acer Founder
Nov 6, 2015In 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 ...
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Falling Sales of Android Smartphones Affecting Taiwan IC Design Houses
Nov 6, 2015The 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
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IC Demand for Tablet PCs Weak According to Sources
Oct 8, 2015IC 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
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Smartphone Vendors to Adopt in-House-Developed AP
Aug 11, 2015Huawei 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
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Falling Product ASPs and Gross Margins Will Erode Taiwan's Fabless IC Firms' Profitability
Jul 2, 2015Falling 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 ...
Tags: fabless IC, IC industry
