Category Archives: Wafer and Foundries

The Wafer Quiz – By AnySilicon

Test Yourself: How well do you know TSMC?

AnySilicon is proud and exited to launch our first quiz series.
 
 

X-FAB Files for IPO

German foundry X-FAB  plans to raise 250M Euros or US$265 million in an IPO in Paris Euronext to support future acquisitions and strengthen its capital structure.
 
We are on a growth track,” says Rudi de Winter CEO of X-FAB, “and being a public company with increased financial capabilities will further

Taiwan Maintains Largest Share of Semiconductor Wafer Fab Capacity

IC Insights recently released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2017-2021 report that provides in-depth detail, analyses, and forecasts for IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process geometry, by region, and by product type through 2021.  Figure 1 splits the world’s installed monthly wafer production capacity by geographic region (or

Intel Announces $7B Investment in Arizona Semiconductor Fab

Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich, announced today during his meeting with the US president, Donald Trump, to invest seven billion dollars in the next 3-4 years setting up a chip manufacturing plant in the city of Chandler, Arizona .
Intel, the world’s largest maker of processors for personal computers (PC), will

X-Fab, SMIC, and TowerJazz each grew by ≥30% in 2016

The pure-play semiconductor foundry market is forecast to play an increasingly stronger role in the worldwide IC market during the next five years, according to IC Insights’ new 2017 McClean Report, which becomes available later this month.  The 20th anniversary edition of The McClean Report forecasts that the 2016-2021 pure-play