The graphics chip market has experienced an incredible trend in the past few quarters, from low to high, and then from the high to the bottom. The driving force of this market trend comes from the cryptocurrency market. In 2017, the cryptocurrency market is arguably the main source of growth of NVIDIA’s graphics chips. NVIDIA…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—the world’s largest makers of semiconductors and processors—was forced to shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories over the weekend after being hit by a computer virus. Now, it turns out that the computer virus outbreak at Taiwan chipmaker was the result of a variant of WannaCry—a massive ransomware attack that wreaked havoc across the world…

The global top 10 IC design companies in 2018 the first quarter according to revenue and ranking come out, except MediaTek (MediaTek) and Novatek’s revenue presenting recession, the rest 8 manufacturers are going up. Among them, Broadcom topped the list with $48.1 billion, year-on-year growth of 15%. Qualcomm and NVIDIA were second and third with $3.897 billion and $2.79 billion respectively. According to latest statistics of…

All the TOP 15 Semiconductor Sales Learders 1Q18 have gains. Thirteen Top-15 1Q18 Semi Suppliers Register Double-Digit Gains. Samsung extends its number one ranking and sales lead over Intel to 23%. IC Insights will release its May Update to the 2018 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a discussion of the 1Q18 IC industry market results, an update of the 2018…