The report finds that the Taiwanese fabless IC industry's shipment value continued to witness year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2019, arriving at US$4.29 billion. In the second quarter of 2019, traditionally the peak season, the industry's shipment value is anticipated to witness a double-digit sequential growth to around USD 4.85 billion while the demand for communications and consumer electronics ICs is expected to remain robust, taking up 72.4% of the total shipments.