Clear inventory Taiwan chip price war

According to the news of China's Taiwan region, since the third quarter end market demand is not busy season, the upstream chip supplier in order to reduce the pressure of excess inventory, started Qing stock price movements, from memory, LCD driver IC, graphics chip market, outward spread to China Netcom, analog and digital TV, mobile phone chip market. Merchants said that in the second half of last year, the average price decline during the peak season was only 3%, but the decline in the third quarter of this year has more than 10%. The important chip suppliers such as MediaTek, Realtek, Sunplus, Broadcom (Broadcom), Maxwell (MarvELl), Texas Instruments (Xilinx), Xilinx, mid second quarter because of market demand in the third quarter is expected to optimistic, think that the traditional season will still come, increased chip inventory waiting for customer orders. In order to reduce hand stock, chip factory has strengthened the sales of dealers and end customers, take a price promotions and other means.

Source: Taiwan Business Times