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Texas Instruments’ 2024 financial report reveals a year of stable performance amidst a challenging macroeconomic environment. While revenue experienced a slight decline, the company demonstrated strong cash generation and significant returns to shareholders, highlighting the resilience of its business model and the effectiveness of its long-term strategy.
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X-FAB’s 2024 financial report reflects a year of navigating significant market headwinds, primarily driven by industry-wide destocking, particularly impacting the automotive sector. Despite these challenges, the company demonstrated resilience, maintaining profitability and laying the groundwork for future growth.
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Revenue Performance: Full-year 2024 revenue
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Feb. 7, 2025—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor sales hit $627.6 billion in 2024, an increase of 19.1% compared to the 2023 total of $526.8 billion. Additionally, fourth-quarter sales of $170.9 billion were 17.1% more than the fourth quarter of 2023, and 3.0% higher than the third
Read MoreFebruary-7, 2025 — TSMC , Taiwan’s leading semiconductor manufacturer, is reportedly planning a new 1-nanometer fabrication plant in Tainan’s Shalun area. This massive facility, a Giga-Fab capable of housing six 12-inch wafer fabs, aims to leverage the existing advanced manufacturing cluster in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP). Its location
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2025 — GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading semiconductor manufacturer, announced a significant leadership transition and outlined ambitious expansion plans this week. Effective April 28th, 2025, Tim Breen, currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO), will succeed Thomas Caulfield as President and CEO. Caulfield, who has served as CEO since 2018,
Read MoreThe semiconductor industry is experiencing a surge in investment and expansion of advanced packaging facilities, driven by increasing demand for high-performance computing and other applications. Several key players are significantly expanding their capacity, aiming for substantial production increases by 2025. This expansion is geographically diverse, with major projects underway in
Read MoreNORTH READING, Mass.–(February 3, 2025 )– Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER), a leading supplier of automated test solutions, and Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY), a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to advance power semiconductor test.
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Mannheim, Germany, January 30, 2025 — EXTOLL, a leading provider of high-speed and ultra-low-power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, has been selected by BeammWave, an innovation leader in mmWave 5G/6G digital beamforming, as a key SerDes IP supplier for its next gen communication ASIC development portfolio on GlobalFoundries’ (GF) 22nm FD-SOI process
Read MoreMunich, Germany, and Oxford, UK – 28th January, 2025 — Codasip GmbH and RED Semiconductor International Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on developing advanced AI acceleration technologies.
Under the MoU, RED will leverage the Codasip Studio processor design tools to integrate its VISC technology as an accelerator for Codasip
The semiconductor industry is poised for a significant expansion in 2025, with plans to commence construction on 18 new fabrication plants (fabs). This surge, detailed in SEMI’s World Fab Forecast, reflects the industry’s projected growth to $697 billion in 2025, an 11.2% increase from 2024. While some fabs are slated
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