Taiwan IC Design Houses See Small Recovery

Digitimes reports that same design houses like MediaTek, ITE Tech and RealTek are seeing a recovery in orders. According to Digitime, MediaTek is expecting 10-15% growth in February and both ITE and RealTek have seen increased orders from companies like ASUS and MSI.

According to Digitimes: "Customers in China have begun to rebuild inventory levels, helping sales of Taiwan IC design companies to grow this month, according to industry sources." Digitimes also says analog design houses and LCD driver chip design houses are also expected to see some growth in February.

To see some sectors making small, incremental gains is encouraging. Is this growth sustainable over the course of the next few months? Who knows? Its been a wild ride down over the past few months and why will the short term future be any different?

Digitimes: Taiwan IC designers see recovering sales