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Its high risk for semiconductor vendors to depend only on few big customers
What about the analysis of 100 companies giving a 1 million order versus one company placing 1 million order to a semiconductor device making company. Well, if you're supplying a semiconductor device to a company like Apple for use in its high volume iPhones and iPads, that gives a great boost to t
6 min readSemiconductor fab race: Intel, TSMC, Glofo, Samsung neck to neck, SMIC fast catching
While the difficulty level of scaling semiconductor chips smaller is rising to the highest possible level, the competition among the semiconductor foundries is getting closer. After Intel started mass production of 14 nm chips, closely with in few months TSMC started producing 16 nm chips. When it
2 min readMid-year semiconductor market forecast for 2015: near flat to small growth
The year 2015 is neither a significant growth nor a fall for the semiconductor chip industry. By looking at the performance of most of the semiconductor companies up to the second quarter of 2015, it can be estimated a very small growth or near flat growth curve compared to 2014. Someth
3 min readSemicon West: Forget microelectronics it’s not even nano let’s call it atomtronics
The era of atomic level control of electrical properties have already begun, in that sense the so-called Moore’s law will continue but with the new way of doing things. The researchers in semiconductor manufacturing are both engineers and also equally good material scientists who always explored how
5 min readChina goes for big in semiconductor
It is reported in the media, China's Tsinghua Unigroup is planning a acquisition bid to buy Micron for US$23 billion. This offer clearly shows China's super-fast growth plans in chip industry. China imports huge amount of chips but sells back to the world by using them in the electronics systems it
4 min readGartner's global semiconductor forecast for 2015: a 2.2% growth to reach $348B
Gartner has forecasted the global semiconductor sales revenue to reach US$ 348 billion in year 2015, a growth of 2.2% compared to 2014. "The outlook for the major applications that drive the semiconductor market, including PCs, smartphones, and tablets, have all been revised downward. This, com
3 min read3-D semiconductor innovation by IRT Nanoelec, CEA-Leti, STMicro and Mentor
In a three-dimensional semiconductor device fabrication achievement, IRT Nanoelec, CEA-Leti, STMicroelectronics and Mentor Graphics have developed a 3DNoC IC device based on a 2D semiconductor die that can be used in a stand-alone applicative mode, and also in a 3D stack with several dice, to multi
5 min read7nm test chip taped out by IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung alliance
7nm test-chip is taped out by semiconductor research alliance headed by IBM. Si Ge (Silicon Germanium) semiconductor material is used as FET channel-material and EUV lithography semiconductor equipment is employed to print 7nm width patterns in this test chip. Self assembly is also anticipated to
3 min readSemiconductor market no more cyclical, a marginal 2-3% growth in 2015
Due to the boom and bust like market opportunities in semiconductor market, the revenue growth of IC chips used to be ups and downs of double-digit growth and fall before 2010. With the many memory manufacturers understanding demand controlled supply and also stabilization of markets such as comput
3 min readLess power consuming 65 nm semiconductor fab process by Toshiba
Toshiba is not limiting its semiconductor fabrication research focus to pure memory alone, it has announced a new flash memory embedded process based on 65nm logic process. The chips made from which consume lesser power than the present mainstream technology. Toshiba also developed single-poly non-v
3 min readSOI fab news: 130nm 300mm RFSOI and 180nm SOI foundry capacity available
RF Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology focused chip company Peregrine Semiconductor announced industry’s first RF SOI technology built on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 130 nm 300 mm RF technology platform. This process technology platform called UltraCMOS 11 uses a custom fabrication flow from GLOBALFOUNDRIES
3 min readGlobalfoundries completes acquisition of IBM semiconductor business
Globalfoundries said it has completed the acquisition of IBM's semiconductor business. IBM's semiconductor business sold to Globalfoundries, includes IBM's semiconductor foundries/fabs and the related technology. However IBM continue to focus on fundamental research in the material science related
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