Chip Manufacturing Equipment Spending to Hit Record High $70B in 2021
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by OEMs are projected to increase 6% to $63.2 billion in 2020 compared to…
SEMI Applauds Senate Support of Financial Incentives to Grow U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing
SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha has voiced his support for amendments the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate included…
Is Moore’s Law Actually Slowing Down?
Moore’s Law, the tenet that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18-24 months, has driven the…
How SMIC Can Keep Up With Advanced Process Technologies – Part 2
SMIC has begun producing 14nm chips, and has joined the FinFET club. The company is on the verge of a…
1Q/4Q “Direction Indicator” Signals Rebound in the 2020 IC Market
After dropping by 15% last year, the worldwide IC market is expected to show single-digit growth in 2020, even with…
TSMC Boosts CapEx on Strong 5G, HPC Demand
TSMC has increased its capital expenditure plan for this year by about $1 billion on the expected demand for 5G…
EDA Industry Maintains Healthy Growth
The EDA sector continues to expand as system-level efforts gain momentum...
Chip Sector Set to Ride Out the Pandemic Storm
The semiconductor industry appears to be riding out the pandemic — so far. In fact, there might be sales growth…
How SMIC Can Keep Up With Advanced Process Technologies
Despite hurdles both technological and political, SMIC is intent on being as close to the state-of-the-art in production as it…
GaAs RF Revenue Projected to Decline by 3.8% in 2020
RF front-end component IDM and foundry revenues will be affected under dual influences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ever-intensifying…
ADI-Maxim Deal: Where’s ADI Headed?
Where's ADI headed? I would like to sneak inside the head of Vincent Roche and wander around its corridors. My…
Chiplets Promise to Revive Moore’s Law
Die-stitching techniques, the basic concept behind chiplets, aren’t new or necessarily propriety, but the approach could benefit from templates.
