The report finds that the Taiwanese fabless IC industry's shipment value continued to witness both sequential and year-on-year growth in the third quarter of 2018. Looking forward, in anticipation of the increasingly stable shipment of smartphone ICs and continued steady IoT-related applications that drive the demand for wireless communications ICs, the industry's shipment value is anticipated to reach NTD 579.8 billion (USD 19.3 billion; USD1 = NTD30.0) in 2018, up 6.2% year-on-year.