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Analog IC Firms Seeks Chances in the Year of Horse

By Vincent Wang
Published: Feb 06,2014

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Last year performance of Analog Interated Circuit (IC) industry in Taiwan is highly influenced by the market trend, those power management chip firms that is related to PC is the major victim of which, and they all want industrial transformation and release integrated products. Richtek is no exception, so does Paradetech, etc.

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According to the company, Richtek signed a contrat with international big firm Dialog, and is going to unveil new product this year, which is said that has become part of the supply chain of Samsung that will probably become a topic at its online investor conference on 13th.

PC industry has declined more than 10 percent that led to the IC design industry in Taiwan suffered from shipment downgraded. Last year's revenue of the power management IC firms, Richtek, Global Mixed-mode Tech. (GMT), and Advanced Analog Tech. (AAT) are all declined.

However, F-IML once is famous for its P-Gamma IC lost support from Apple and resulted in its last year's low revenue. From April 8th Microsoft will be no longer updated Windows XP that has been considered would cause a wave of replacement that is a good news for PC industry.

Richtek has established a Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) team, keep recruiting MEMS Engineers. MEMS can be applied in many ways, which may break through IDM's market share based on an earlier report.

Holtek has been working on the microwave controller, and has invested in Best Solution Inc. and Gingytech to march in touch panel, fingerprint identification. Holtek also saw the chance in wearables so that has established a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) subsidiary company, GlobalNet Electronics Co. developing Sub-1 Ghz chip product.

Paradetech is not only expanding its market share in Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) chip, and marching in panel chip. During December of 2013 and January of 2014, Paradetek announced two series of new products; PS8731/PS8722 and DP676/DP677/DP678/DP679. The PS8731/PS8733 series ICs are USB 3.0 redriver IC for next generation smartphones, tablets and ultra mobile devices.

According to Paradetech, those ICs offer the lowest power consumption and small package size. The DP676/DP677/DP678/DP679 series ICs are new very low power eDP Tcons consume less than half the power of Paradetek existing devices, which are ideal for embedded displays in slim profile notebooks and tablets.

Due to Japanese gaming giant Nintendo issued a profit warning that led to the joystick shipment of Pixart Imaging Inc. downgraded, Pixart is going to hold its investor conference on February 13rd.

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