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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

300mm Silicon Wafers Market Overview

Prior to 2008, the 200mm silicon wafer was used in more cases for manufacturing ICs than any other wafer size. However, since 2008, the majority of IC fabrication has taken place on 300mm silicon wafers. Rankings of silicon manufacturers by installed capacity for each of the wafer sizes are shown

Samsung Likely to Spin off Foundry Business Division

According to Business Korea Samsung Electronics is considering a reorganization of the System LSI division in order to systematically grow the system semiconductor business. The company is planning to separate the design and manufacturing sectors in the business unit and divide or spin off it to fabless and foundry business

Samsung to produce all the Snapdragon 830 chips on a 10nm process

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have extended their decade-long strategic foundry collaboration to manufacture Qualcomm Technologies’ latest Snapdragon premium processor, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835, with Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology.

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The silicon photonics industry is ready for take-off. Objective: a multibillion dollar market

Datacenters with few other emerging applications will become a multibillion dollar market for silicon photonics by 2025. Transporting high level of data with existing technologies will soon reach its limit and photons will continue replacing step by step electrons throughout networks. Growing investments made by VCs have been identified by

Austria’s ams acquires Heptagon become a worldwide leader in optical sensing

Premstaetten, Austria (24 October 2016) – ams (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide manufacturer of high performance sensor and analog solutions, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Heptagon, the worldwide leader in high performance optical packaging and micro-optics. With this transaction, ams becomes the

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

300mm Silicon Wafers Market Overview

Samsung Likely to Spin off Foundry Business Division

Samsung to produce all the Snapdragon 830 chips on a 10nm process

The silicon photonics industry is ready for take-off. Objective: a multibillion dollar market

Austria’s ams acquires Heptagon become a worldwide leader in optical sensing

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Category Archives: Wafer and Foundries

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

300mm Silicon Wafers Market Overview

Samsung Likely to Spin off Foundry Business Division

Samsung to produce all the Snapdragon 830 chips on a 10nm process

The silicon photonics industry is ready for take-off. Objective: a multibillion dollar market

Austria’s ams acquires Heptagon become a worldwide leader in optical sensing

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