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3nm chip design signoff: Equivalent to scaling of mount Everest!
All the way from 180 nm to today's 3 nm, semiconductor chip designers continuously see one constant of growing design complexity. The climbing of this complexity mountain is getting steeper and steeper. At the nodes of 3 nm, the rate of rise of complexity looks to be lot more exponential than the pr
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Wafer fab equipment market to reach $ 94 billion in 2023, down by 8.2% compared to 2022
Yole Intelligence reported that the total revenue for wafer fab equipment (WFE) is anticipated to undergo an -8.2% reduction, declining from US$104 billion in the calendar year 2022 to US$94 billion in the calendar year 2023. The key points made by Yole includes: Q2 2023 performance of wafer fa
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Processor revenue to hit US$242 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 8% from 2022 to 2028
Yole reported in its latest findings that the CPU and GPU markets have been adversely affected by a significant drop in consumer demand, even as advancements in AI innovation and chiplet integration continue to progress. The points shared by Yole: The processor revenue is projected to hit US$242 b
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SOI Industry Consortium Joins SEMI
SOI Industry Consortium has joined SEMI as a Strategic Association Partner effective January 1, 2021. Objective is to connect members of both the semiconductor industry associations, where SEMI to deepen its materials technology focus and helps connect members with key players in SOI to collaborate
4 min readUCT agrees to acquire Ham-Let
Ultra Clean Holdings to acquire Ham-Let (Israel-Canada) Ltd. for approximately $348 million, which includes $287 million of equity value plus $61 million of net debt. Ham-Let is into making of ultra-high purity and industrial flow control systems – valves, fittings, hoses and connectors mainly for
2 min readSemiconductor foundry market roundup 2020
There are two type of chips, where density of transistors per square mm to impact, they are logic and traceiver block based system on chips, and pure semiconductor memory, and off-course there is a bit of each one in the other. Beyond 7 nm, the market driving higher density logic SoC ICs is basicall
7 min readHardly any product overlapping in Nvidia's acquisition of Arm
Graphics and supercomputing chip focused Nvidia decided to buy embedded processor IP vendor Arm. This purchase can create good growth opportunities for the combined biz with no stepping on the product growth of both the company’s well established product portfolios. Can Nvidia continue to offer Arm'
2 min readA list of short and long term trends while semiconductor grew double digit in 2017,
At the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) In US: Len Jelinek of IHS forecast a total semiconductor revenue growth of 7.4% in 2018, with memory growing by 14 % and all other semiconductors by 4.5%, with the growth majorly coming from consumer electronics, with 70 % of chips ending up in consumer
6 min readAcquisition progress of Broadcom - Qualcomm - NXP, and more such news early 2018
The most significant acquisition news in semiconductor industry in 2017 is Broadcom acquiring Qualcomm. The process had just started in 2017 with much to happen in 2018. Even Qualcomm has still not yet completed the acquisition of NXP. However it has announced that the European Commission and the
3 min readEUV is ready for mass production of 7 nm and 5 nm semiconductor chips
Finally the wait for mass production capable EUV is over with the successful demo of 250W exposure-power EUV lithography equipment from the only vendor ASM Lithography. Though ASM has already supplied good number of EUV lithography equipment to leading semiconductor fabs but they are of lesser po
6 min readPlay vertical game to become successful in the semiconductor chip market
Aart De Geus, Chairman of Synopsys suggests to play vertical game to become successful in the semiconductor chip market. Aart De Geus shared key market and technology trends in VLSI-chip centric electronics and semiconductor market in his keynote at SNUG India 2017 event held in Bengaluru. He shared
4 min readGartner reviewed its semiconductor market forecast for year 2017, estimate to reach $400 B
Gartner has reviewed semiconductor market forecast for year 2017. Gartner reviewed estimates predicts the worldwide semiconductor revenue to total $401.4 billion in 2017, up by 16.8% from 2016 exceeding $400 billion for 1st time. The semiconductor market reached the $300 billion in year 2010, and
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