Chipmaker Results Point Toward Correction
By Nitin Dahad, EETimes
Nov. 1, 2018
LONDON — A number of chipmaker earnings announcements over the last week had a common theme — softer demand, inventory correction, and potential impacts from the U.S.-China trade war.
Among these companies were Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and Renesas, each of which plays heavily in microcontrollers, automotive and industrial chips.
On last week’s earnings call, TI’s chief financial officer, Rafael Lizardi, indicated that the company was heading into a softer market. It forecasted its weakest fourth quarter since 2013. Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer said in a client note that he considered TI’s fourth-quarter cut to be one of the first credible signals of an early-stage semiconductor cycle correction.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- ASIL B Compliant MIPI CSI-2 CSE2 Security Module
- SHA-256 Secure Hash Algorithm IP Core
- EdDSA Curve25519 signature generation engine
- DeWarp IP
- 6-bit, 12 GSPS Flash ADC - GlobalFoundries 22nm
Related News
- Photonic accelerates the timeline to useful quantum computing with breakthrough results in error correction
- MoSys adds soft-error protection, correction to 1-transistor SRAM for 'free'
- ARC edges toward platform approach, profit
- Taiwan makes slow shift toward greater respect for IP
Latest News
- Analog Bits Demonstrates Real-Time On-Chip Power Sensing and Delivery on TSMC N2P Process at TSMC 2026 Technology Symposiums
- TES offers a High-Frequency Synthesizer and Clock Generator IP for X-FAB XT018 - 0.18µm BCD-on-SOI technology
- Faraday Delivers IP Solutions to Enable Endpoint AI Based on UMC’s 28nm SST eFlash
- AiM Future Partners with Metsakuur Company to Commercialize NPU-Integrated Hardware
- ESD Alliance Reports Electronic System Design Industry Posts $5.5 Billion in Revenue in Q4 2025