Category Archives: ASIC Industry Market Trends

China to Fall Far Short of its “Made-in-China 2025” Goal for IC Devices

IC Insights will release its May Update to the 2020 McClean Report later this month.  This Update is part of a series of monthly updates to The McClean Report that will be released through November of this year.  The following evaluation of China’s IC market is an excerpt from the original McClean Report released in January.
 
IC production in

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Top Semiconductor Sales Leaders – 1Q2020

IC Insights will release its May Update to the 2020 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a discussion of the 1Q20 IC industry market results, an updated quarterly forecast for the remainder of this year, and a look at the top-25 1Q20 semiconductor suppliers. The top-10 1Q20 semiconductor suppliers are covered in this

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Top 10 Best and Worth Years in the Semiconductor Industry

Using its “baseline” assumptions shown in the April Update to the 2020 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR20), IC Insights forecasts that worldwide IC unit shipments will register their first-ever back-to-back annual decline in 2020.
From 2013 through 2018, IC unit shipments were on a

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Global Semiconductor Capex Forecast to Drop 3% Again This Year

Using its “baseline” assumptions shown in the soon-to-be-released April Update to the 2020 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR20), IC Insights is not lowering its current -3% 2020 semiconductor industry capital spending forecast (Figure 1) due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Although essentially all of the

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Global IC Market Forecast Lowered From 3% to -4%

When 2020 started, global economic conditions pointed to single-digit percentage sales growth in the IC market after it fell by 15% in 2019, based on worldwide market data compiled by IC Insights for the 2020 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR20).  However,

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U.S. IC Companies Maintain Global Marketshare Lead

Regional marketshares of IDMs (companies operating wafer fabs), fabless companies, and total IC sales were led by U.S. headquartered companies in 2019, according to data presented in the recently released March Update to The McClean Report 2020.
 
Figure 1 shows U.S. companies held 55% of the total worldwide IC

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