China recruiting engineering talent in Taiwan IC design industry

MediaTek continues to enhance its ASIC and IP design capability through several acquisitions announced recently, while recruiting talent from the IP and IC design industry sectors, according to industry observers......»»

E&R Engineering has recently enjoyed an influx of short lead-time orders from China's semiconductor industry, which will be buoying its sales performance during the second quarter of 2020, according to the Taiwan-based automation equipment maker......»»

The development of the software sector in Taiwan has been much slower compared to hardware manufacturing, which has been supported by large numbers of engineering talent......»»

China has initiated a new round of efforts to accelerate the development of its homegrown chip industry, a move that is likely to create significant business opportunities for Taiwan-based IC design houses, according to industry sources......»»

More Taiwan-based IC design houses are moving to strengthen partnerships with foundries in China so as to land more orders from Chinese brand vendors seeking to cut reliance on US supplies of key semiconductor components, according to industry sources......»»

Qualcomm and MediaTek have both been expanding their R&D deployments in Taiwan and are recruiting local IC design talent keenly with higher-than-average salaries......»»

The shortages of manpower in Taiwan's IT industry have worsened, fueled by the government's push for its "5+2" industrial innovation plan and its efforts to persuade Taiwanese companies to move back from China......»»

China-based server vendor Inspur has been aggressively headhunting talent from Taiwan-based ODMs including Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec for its R&D office in Taiwan, according to industry sources......»»

Second-tier IC foundries based in China and Taiwan are planning to hike quotes for 8-inch capacity by 20-30% in the third quarter of 2018, according to sources in the Taiwan IC design industry......»»

Taiwan-based LCD driver IC-design houses, driver IC backend service companies and IC material suppliers are likely to benefit significantly from the ramp-up of OLED panel production capacity in China after 2019, according to industry sources......»»

Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to post over 10% sequential decreases in October revenues, as shipments during the first week of the month were affected by China's National Day holiday, according to industry sources......»»

IC design houses are under increasing pressure to lower quotes as their downstream OEM and ODM clients in Taiwan and China have suspended taking shipments amid loosening wafer foundry capacity supply and inventory pressure, according to industry sources......»»

Taiwan-based IC design houses are poised to post strong sales results for May with many of them set to generate record-high revenues, according to industry sources......»»

MediaTek, Qualcomm Taiwan and other IC design houses in Taiwan have adopted work-from-home and other precautionary measures amid a spike of COVID-19 infections locally, according to industry sources......»»

Taiwan's PCB makers will see only limited impact from the worsening domestic pandemic infections as the majority of their production capacities are based in China, according to industry sources......»»

Taiwan's handset components supply chain is likely to feel the pinch of inventory corrections by Chinese handset vendors starting third-quarter 2021 at the earliest amid their sales shrinkages in China and India markets, according to industry sources......»»

The architecture, engineering and construction industry once again dominated the Business Journal’s list of the 100 largest private companies in the Bay State......»»

Taiwan-based optical component suppliers expect their shipments for 5G network applications to gain momentum starting second-quarter 2021, bolstered by a pick-up in demand from China and other markets, according to industry sources......»»

Taiwan's IC substrate makers with their strong technological prowess are in pole position to explore business opportunities from China's ongoing homegrown CPU development campaign, according to industry sources......»»

Rising foundry and backend quotes are prompting IC design houses to make efforts to pass on higher production costs to customers, according to industry sources in Taiwan......»»