Category Archives: ASIC Industry Market Trends

Semiconductor Units To Rebound, Exceed 1 Trillion Devices Again in 2020

Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices are forecast to rise 7% in 2020 and surpass one trillion units for the second time in history, based on data presented in the new, 2020 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of

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Five Semiconductor Companies Hold 53% of Global Wafer Capacity

IC Insights recently released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report that provides in-depth detail, analyses, and forecasts for IC industry capacity by wafer size, process geometry, region, and product type through 2024.
 
Included in the report is a ranking of the 25 largest wafer capacity leaders in terms of monthly

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Semiconductor R&D To Nudge Higher Through 2024

The semiconductor business is defined by rapid technological changes and the need to maintain high levels of investment in research and development for new materials, innovative manufacturing processes for increasingly complex chip designs, and advanced IC packaging technologies.
While consolidation in the semiconductor industry contributed to lower growth rates in

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26 of 33 Semiconductor IC Products Forecast to Demonstrate Positive Growth in 2020

IC Insights recently released the 2020 edition of The McClean Report.  The new analysis and forecast of the IC industry includes IC Insights’ 2020 ranking of sales growth rates for each of the 33 IC product categories defined by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.  The top-10 fastest growing

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Global GDP Growth An Increasingly Important Driver of IC Market Growth

IC Insights is in the process of completing its forecast and analysis of the IC industry and will present its new findings in The McClean Report 2020, which will be published later this month.  Among the semiconductor industry data included in the new 400-page report is an analysis of the correlation

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Record Amount of IC Capacity Forecast to be Added in 2021

IC Insights recently released its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report that provides in-depth analyses and forecasts of IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process geometry, by region, and by product type through 2024.
 
Typically, the IC industry meets most of its IC unit demand by increasing wafer starts, not by

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