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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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UltraSoC and Agile Analog Collaborate to Detect Physical Cyber Attacks

Cambridge, UK, 15 April 2020:
 
UltraSoC and Agile Analog today announced a collaboration that aims to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive hardware-based cybersecurity infrastructure by combining UltraSoC’s embedded on-chip analytics with Agile Analog’s advanced on-chip analog monitoring IP. The combination will enable the detection and prevention of ‘analog interference’

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Silicon Wafer Production Process

Semiconductors are extremely critical and central components in modern technology. Most of the electronic devices we use today operate on these integrated circuits that are housed on silicon wafer chips. It does, however, take a lot of processing and work to get the semiconductor in that condition from the raw

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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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Talking Sense With Moortec – Key Applications For In Chip Monitoring

This is a guest post by Richard McPartland, Technical Marketing Manager, Moortec
 
The latest SoCs on advanced semiconductor nodes typically include a fabric of sensors spread across the die and for good reason. But why and what are the benefits? This first blog of a three-part series explores some

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Semiconductor Supply Chain Overview

Semiconductors lie at the very center of the modern world of technology and digital devices. Semiconductors chips such as microcontrollers give us a level of control that wasn’t possible before. The demand for semiconductors and ICs from companies that build consumer devices is extremely high and they expect high quality

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Wafer Level Packaging Market Information 2020

WLP will definitely be a winner by 2025, declared Yole Développement (Yole) in its new Advanced Packaging Quarterly Market Monitor. $2.5B will be the market figure to remember as it will be Fan-out (FO) package revenue by 2025. Behind this data, there is TSMC’s strategy to drive fan-out for 5G applications. In parallel,

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100 IC Wafer Fabs Closed or Repurposed Since 2009

Over the past decade, the IC industry has been paring down its older capacity as manufacturers have consolidated or transitioned to the fab-lite or fabless business models.  In its recently released Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights shows that due to the surge of merger and acquisition activity in the middle

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Talking Sense With Moortec – Hyper-Scaling Of Data Centers

This is a guest post by Stephen Crosher, CEO of Moortec
 
As we move in to 2020 it’s clear that every sector of industry, including the semiconductor industry, will have a responsibility to address growing environmental concerns. We should be aware that as our sector underpins the growth in

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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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