IC Insights forecasts total semiconductor capital expenditures will rise to $102.0 billion this year, marking the first time that the industry has spent more than $100 billion on capital expenditures in one year. The $102.0 billion spending level represents a 9% increase over $93.3 billion spent in 2017, which was a
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced an important step in its transformation, continuing the trajectory launched with the appointment of Tom Caulfield as CEO earlier this year. In line with the strategic direction Caulfield has articulated, GF is reshaping its technology portfolio to intensify its focus on delivering truly differentiated offerings for clients
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Innovative medical devices, autonomous vehicles, IoT applications, cloud based organizations, 5G communication networks and more high-end industries are basing their products on microelectronics and micro-optical components.
Constant reduction in chip size and uncompromising placement accuracy demands are some of the dominant challenges those industries are facing.
We, in Beckermus Technologies,
Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced that it is leveraging Samsung FinFET platforms to extend its ASIC design solutions in next-generation applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G/infrastructure networking, blockchain, cloud storage, high-performance computing (HPC), AR & VR, and high-end imaging.
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IC Insights released its August Update to the 2018 McClean Report earlier this month. This Update included a discussion of the top-25 semiconductor suppliers in 1H18 (the top-15 1H18 semiconductor suppliers are covered in this research bulletin) and Part 1 of an extensive analysis of the IC foundry market and its suppliers.
The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor,
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced a collaboration with IBM to apply design technology co-optimization (DTCO) to the pathfinding of new semiconductor process technologies for the 3-nanometer (nm) process node and beyond. DTCO is a methodology for efficiently evaluating and down-selecting new transistor architectures, materials and other process technology innovations
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