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Semiconductor Growth Still Seen at 11% Despite 2022 Headwinds

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Despite rampant inflation, soaring energy costs, ongoing glitches in supply chains, recent Covid-19 virus lockdowns in China, and Russia’s war with Ukraine, IC Insights continues to anticipate an 11% increase in total semiconductor sales this year—the same growth rate that was forecast in January.  However, what’s different in IC Insights’

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Faraday Launches Soteria! Security IP Subsystem for IoT ASIC

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[Hsinchu,  Taiwan  May 31, 2022] Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today introduced its new security subsystem named Soteria!™. The Soteria! solution provides a RoT (Root of Trust) mechanism for custom SoC designs, enabling hardware-level security to a range of IoT applications.
 
Faraday’s Soteria!

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The Ultimate Guide to IC Design

Today is the era of cutting-edge modern technologies. Things are becoming more advanced, smarter, and more compact continuously due to technical advancements. From smart LEDs to smart phones computer systems to electronic appliances, everything is continuously evolving because of Integrated Circuits (ICs). So, the question raised when we hear the

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China-Based IC Production to Represent 21.2% of China IC Market in 2026

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IC Insights’ 112-page May 2Q Update to The McClean Report 2022 is now available for subscribers to download.  It includes a current outlook for the 2022 global economy, detailed market, unit shipment, and ASP forecasts for IC and O-S-D products through 2026, 2021 semiconductor supplier rankings by product type, the 1Q22 top-25 semiconductor

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Automotive Chip Shortages – An Assembly Perspective

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Since March 2020, the pandemic has brought on scarcity in odd goods like toilet paper, baking flour and exercise equipment. The latest casualty is the auto industry as car production across the world has been hobbled by chip shortages. While much has been written about the role of semiconductor suppliers,

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Faraday Continues Expanding Its Ethernet Solutions for Networking Demands in ASIC

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Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announced that its Gigabit Ethernet PHY has been silicon proven on UMC’s 28HPC+ process and is now available for new ASIC SoC designs and IP licensing. This new IP, based on 28nm node, provides the benefits of

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DA-Integrated Announces New Location

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OTTAWA, Canada, May, 2022 – DA-Integrated is adding additional test capacity and constructing a new facility in order to accommodate continued growth. The property at 27 Iber Road is in the heart of Canada’s microelectronics sector. The new location includes a 3,200 sq ft class 10,000 clean room with class 100

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Silex Insight’s eSecure Root of Trust is now supporting ZAYA microcontainers for enhanced security

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May 3, 2022 — Silex Insight, a leading provider of cryptographic IP solutions, today entered into a partnership arrangement with leading IoT security company ZAYA, who delivers a secure OS containerisation technology for microcontrollers, called ZAYA μContainers. The ZAYA μContainers can be added to Silex Insight’s eSecure Root of Trust module

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Top 10 Semiconductor Sales Leaders 1993-2021

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IC Insights’ 2Q Update to The McClean Report 2022 will be released in May. It presents an analysis of the marketshare of the major semiconductor suppliers excluding the pure-play foundries (Figure 1).  While there is a small amount of double-counting effect due to the IDM foundry revenue included in the figures, it is

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2016-2022 Semiconductor Wafer Capacity Trends

IC Insights’ February 1Q Update to The McClean Report 2022 includes an overview of IC industry capacity and wafer start trends from 2002 through 2026.  This bulletin provides a brief summary.
 
The volatile nature of the IC industry is reflected by large swings in annual wafer starts.  Over the past five years, for

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