Demand for thinned wafers will grow at a 5% CAGR from 2019-2025,  says Yole Développement, to reach more than 135 million thinned wafers at the end of the period. The market is mainly pushed by memory, CIS and power SiC components as well as LED and laser diodes. The thinning equipment market is dominated by the ...

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After  six successive y-o-y quarterly revenue declines Qualcomm grew revenues 10,2% in Q2, says TrendForce, while Broadcom’s 2,4% Q2 revenue decline marked five successive down quarters. Qualcomm became part of the supply chain for Chinese brands’ flagship and high-end smartphones in Q1 and its 5G RF front-end products enjoyed increased market adoption. These factors, combined ...

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Fab equipment spending is expected to grow 24% y-o-y in 2021 to reach a record $67.7 billion according to  SEMI’s World Fab Forecast. Memory fabs will lead worldwide semiconductor segments with $30 billion in equipment spending, while leading-edge logic and foundry is expected to rank second with $29 billion in investments. The 3D NAND memory subsegment ...

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Judging by the record number of people who have pre-registeredalready, the 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, which takes place next week (15-19 June) on a virtual basis instead of in Hawaii as originally intended, may be a harbinger of how technical conferences organize themselves in the future, writes Gary Dagastine. At a pre-event ...

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Q2 foundry revenues were up 20% y-o-y says TrendForce. Q1 did not see a large reduction in wafer demand and Q2 saw clients expand orders for new devices and new applications created by the coronavirus. The comparatively low base period in 2Q19 also contributed to the y-o-y increase in foundry revenue in 2Q20. TSMC posted ...

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Jim Keller, a legendary chip architect and svp of silicon engineering at Intel, has resigned with immediate effect citing personal reasons. Keller’s Departure comes after last month’s article in Fortune headlined: “Why Intel is betting its chips on microprocessor mastermind Jim Keller.” “Today, Intel announced that Jim Keller has resigned effective June 11, 2020, due to ...

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The government will provide £10 million over four years to develop groundbreaking cyber security technologies, Nine grant winners are recipients of the government’s Digital Security by Design programme, which aims to help the tech infrastructure of UK organisations and digital devices be more resilient to cyber attacks. The winning research teams that will share the ...

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CEA-Leti says it has broken the throughput world record of 5.1 Gbps in visible light communications (VLC) using a single GaN blue micro- light-emitting diode (LED). Their data transmission rate of 7.7 Gbps achieved with a 10 µm microLED marks another step toward commercialization and widespread use of LiFi communication.   VLC, commonly called LiFi ...

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