LONDON – Although the absolute number of ICs designed each year continues to decline, an increasing proportion of IC designs are getting outsourced to service companies and they are charging more for ...

While the number of outsourced chip design starts declined across all regions in 2009, they grew as a percentage of total design starts and saw revenue increase, according to a recent Gartner survey ...

Smartphone design is not always done by the brands you see on the box. A new report by Counterpoint Research sheds light on the extent of outsourcing in the industry, revealing which manufacturers ...

Manufacturing outsourcing isn’t a new concept for the semiconductor industry. Over the past decade, companies up and down the supply chain have adopted outsourcing in various degrees to help offset ...

Microchip engineering company Tality announced Monday that it will help Vitesse Semiconductor design its communication chips. Under the terms of the two-year, $34 million deal, Tality will collaborate ...

April 5, 2013. Outsourced manufacturers that previously were making strong gains in the cellphone market now face a diminished growth outlook, as mobile communications brands increasingly opt to ...