Semiconductor Market
Global semiconductor fab equipment investment: US$130 Billion in 2026 and 110 Billion in 2025, forecasts SEMI
Global semiconductor fab equipment spending for front-end facilities heading for a massive 18% growth in 2026 to reach US$130 Billion, and with a modest growth of 2% in 2025 to reach US$110 Billion, as per the forecast by SEMI, an industry body representing global semiconductor equipment and mate
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TSMC: The Semiconductor foundry goliath facing Intel and Samsung
TSMC’s towering presence in the semiconductor foundry industry makes it a daunting challenge for rivals like Samsung and Intel to overtake, particularly in advanced nodes like 2nm and 3nm. However, in mature nodes, TSMC encounters fierce competition from smaller foundries specializing in th
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Only the paranoid survive: Does Lip Bu inherit Andy Grove's way of building Intel
Intel founded back in the years when semiconductor chips were invented in late 60s, since then it has unparallel legacy of innovations in silicon transistor shrinking and making it as key element of today's silicon AI brain. Except Arm, no company could eat significantly into its share in the non
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Leaders who are driving the global semiconductor industry both big and startups
The global semiconductor industry is being shaped by a mix of visionary leaders and technical innovators who helm some of the most influential companies. These individuals are driving advancements in AI, advanced manufacturing processes, and strategic industry shifts. Below is a brief overview of
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Can microcontroller market consolidate? An analysis on the future of this market
While the global semiconductor sales generated a revenue around $620-630 billion in 2024, an increase of close to 20% compared to the 2023, that was mainly due to HBM memory and AI processor and to some extend due to smartphone AP chips. However some of the semiconductor markets did not see
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Lip Bu Tan appointed as Intel CEO
Lip Bu Tan, a business leader who know the breadth and depth of electronics and semiconductor industry is appointed as CEO of Intel. He led the EDA company Cadence for long duration driving its growth. He also invested in range of semiconductor startups. He is a founding managing partner of
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TSMC revenues for Feb 2025 was approximately NT$260.01 billion down 11.3 percent from January 2025
TSMC announced its net revenue for February 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for February 2025 was approximately NT$260.01 billion, a decrease of 11.3 perce
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Semiconductor market research facts and charts for the week1-Mar 2025: devices, material, equipment
Chips and devices market: SIA reported the global semiconductor sales were $54.9 billion during the month of February 2025, an increase of 17.1% compared to the February 2024 total of $46.9 billion and 2.9% less than the January 2025 total of $56.5 billion. Sal
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The Semiconductor Market Will Recover in 2024 With an Annual Growth Rate of 20%, Says IDC
According to IDC’s latest research, with the global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) exploding, coupled with the stabilizing demand for smartphones, personal computers, infrastructure, and resilient growth in automotive; the semiconductor industry is expec
7 min readKeysight achieved QDART validation for Qualcomm's QRU100 5G RAN Platform
Keysight Technologies has achieved Qualcomm Development Acceleration Resource Toolkit (QDART) validation for the Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN Platform from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. This validation enables Open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) and gNodeB (gNB) vendors to verify products using the Qualcomm 5G RAN P
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Semiconductor fab equipment revenues grew 9% to reach $120 Billion
Market researcher counterpoint has reported that the total semiconductor wafer fab equipment revenues from the manufacturers in this area grew 9% in 2022 to reach $120 billion. The top five manufacturers generated a revenue of $95 billion in 2022. However for the year 2023, the researcher forecasts
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Semiconductor based automotive sensors to grow 10% CAGR 2022-28
Increasing count and usage of semiconductors in vehicles and their criticality in automotive market making them a priorty in automotive component' in auto-component supply chain management. Along with IC chips and discrete power semiconductor devices, semiconductor sensors becoming a key components
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