I recently read an interesting article “Intel’s cost cuts could give rivals higher ground: analysts” where the analysis claims that Intel Corp’s move to delay the launch of its next generation chip technology to 2017 may see the company lose ground to rivals Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Samsung Electronics
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I authored my first book “Mass Capitalism : A Blueprint for Economic Revival” in 2014 with a purpose of letting the global semiconductor industry ( and particularly the US Semiconductor Industry) know that the Semiconductor Industry is headed for a monumental transformation in the very near future due to a
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With the increased demand for improved functionality and miniaturization in portable hand-held devices—such as cell phones, PDA, digital cameras and laptop computers—original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and integrated device manufactures (IDMs) have joined forces to ensure enhanced chip performance without sacrificing valuable board real estate. Rather than use conventional single chip
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has dropped its prices on 28nm and 20nm process technologies by 5-10% in hopes to secure additional orders from major companies which includes Qualcomm and MediaTek, according to DigiTimes. However, the reaction of 28nm prices will most likely affect AMD and Nvidia positively, who are
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The Semiconductor IP marketplace is a two digit rate growing market which should continue its increase next years according to Gartner Dataquest and according to a new market research report by Form Factor.
Semiconductor IP is expected to reach $5.63 billion in 2020 at a CAGR of 12.6% from
Multi Project Wafer (MPW) emerged in the 1970’s to help companies and researchers prototype their silicon and demonstrate their work. It was the early days of the semiconductor industry when firms like Fairchild, IBM and others were applying technology innovation to create smaller, faster and cheaper chips. Back then, Multi-Project
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