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Samsung and Globalfoundries to share capacities for 14nm
Samsung Electronics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES to share manufacturing capacity for 14 nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, with volume production at Samsung's fabs in Hwaseong, Korea and Austin, Texas, as well as GLOBALFOUNDRIES' fab in Saratoga, New York. Samsung has licensed 14nm FinFET process t
3 min readTriangle of collaboration for finFET success
The semiconductor industry is moving towards 3-D FinFETs more for performance rather than cost. There is going to be significant drop in leakage current. 14nm FinFET transistors are expected to increase speed performance by 20% and power consumption reduction by 35% and 15% save in space compared to
4 min readLarge-sized panel shipment up 11% in March 2014, says TrendForce
Large-sized panel shipment rose 11% MOM in March 2014 to 66.57 million units, according to TrendForce panel research division WitsView’s latest panel shipment research report. “After reaching a restocking peak in March, large-sized panel demands will wane in April,”said Witsview Senior Research
3 min readSEMI: Photomask market increased 1% in 2013
SEMI has reported the worldwide semiconductor photomask market was $3.1 billion in 2013 and is forecasted to reach $3.3 billion in 2015. After contracting 3 percent in 2012 the photomask market increased 1 percent in 2013, finds SEMI. Other findings shared by SEMI includes: The mask market is e
2 min readCloud-Managed Wi-Fi market is predicted to grow from US$ 653 M to 2500M
IDC has forecasted the worldwide cloud-managed infrastructure and managed services revenue will reach $653 million in 2014 and $2.5 billion by 2018. In recent years, cloud-managed Wi-Fi growth has been fueled by increased adoption in the midmarket and distributed enterprise (e.g., retail, K-12 ed
2 min readIn 10 years semiconductor material market has nearly doubled
The semiconductor material market has nearly doubled from 2003 to 2013. In 2003 it was around US dollar 23-24 billion and in 2013 it is estimated by SEMI that the total semiconductor material market of US dollar 43.5 billion. However from 2012 to 2013, the semiconductor material market is down by 3
2 min readCombination of graphene and silicon to drive the next wave in semiconductors
To jump off the wall, where the Silicon is hit by severe limitation in miniaturization using photolithography techniques, the semiconductor industry is pinning huge hope on new material Graphene, which holds the commercially and technically beneficial characteristics/properties. The world's seco
5 min readLatest ranking of top 20 semiconductor vendors in 2013 by IC Insights
Foundry services and fabless grow whereas merchant chip makers show no or very little growth. Please find the below latest release by IC Insights on top 20 semiconductor vendors in 2013. SK Hynix, MediaTek, Micron, and Qualcomm each registered ≥30% year-over-year growth. IC Insights’ April Upd
7 min readNon-IC semiconductor market is forecasted to grow by >8% in 2014
IC Insights has reported its market research findings, where it estimates the total Opto, Sensors/Actuators, and Discrete semiconductor/device (O-S-D) sales of $58.6 billion in 2013, surpassing the previous peak of $58.2 billion in 2012, when revenues also grew about 1% from record levels in 2011.
6 min readThe top capex spenders in semicon industry for 2014, forecast by IC Insights
IC Insights has release its forecast ranking of the top 25 semiconductor capital spenders for 2014. A preview of the top 10 spenders is shown in Figure 1. Fig 1 Below are other detail
4 min readThe top ten IC market segments by growth
IC Insights has forecasted the top IC chip product categories by growth in 2014. The findings shared by IC Insights includes: Tablet MPUs, DRAM, and Cellphone Application MPUs, are forecast to exceed the 7% growth rate forecast for the total IC market this year, with seven of the ten categories f
3 min read1 Trillion devices by 2016: semiconductor everywhere and anywhere is the trend
The semiconductors anywhere and everywhere, this is what is going to happen when you look at the number of semiconductor devices shipped every year. By year 2016 it is estimated around 1 Trillion semiconductor devices shipped per year, as for IC Insights, market researcher specific to semiconductor
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