The EU is beginning to push for a non-Huawei 5G network in Europe. “Progress is urgently needed to mitigate the risk of dependency on high-risk suppliers, also with a view to reducing dependencies at Union level,” said the EC last week. France has followed the UK in banning Huawei switchgear in 5G networks by saying ...

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The US semiconductor industry is in pretty good shape, argues the Cato Institute, while the Chinese semiconductor industry is struggling to gain traction. Cato quotes Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data which show U.S. “Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing” to have increased substantially in recent years, topping $113.4 billion in real gross output and ...

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Imec’s CMOS boss Sri Samavedam sees five trends ahead for the semiconductor industry: Trend 1: Moore’s Law will continue for the next 8 to 10 years… CMOS transistor density scaling will roughly continue to follow Moore’s Law for the next eight to ten years. This will be enabled mainly by advances in EUV patterning and ...

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Intel  said yesterday that its 7nm process is six months behind schedule. The company is looking at pushing more wafers out to foundry. “We’re going to be pretty pragmatic about if and when we should be making stuff inside or making outside, and making sure that we have optionality to build internally, mix and match ...

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Researchers at  the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have come up with a new memory technology based on ferroelectric tunnelling junction (FTJ) technology. FTJ devices  promise to increase data upload speed, extend smartphone battery life, and reduce data corruption. Han Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the USC Viterbi ...

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The year has been one of gradually increasing optimism for the chip market, reports Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. Two months ago most forecasts called for a decline in the semiconductor market in 2020, says SI. The outlook changed in June, WSTS  projected 3.3% growth in 2020. This month IC Insights revised its IC forecast for ...

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The power transistor market is expected to fall 7% in 2020 , but to rebound 7% next year and reach a new record high in 2022, says IC Insights’ O-S-D Report. After three straight years of record-high sales, the power transistor market is forecast to drop 7% in 2020 because of the economic fallout from ...

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China leads in 5G base station deployment, network coverage and market share in 5G smartphones, says TrendForce. Chinese smartphone brands have a 75% share in the H1 global 5G smartphone market. Total global smartphone production is forecast at 1.24 billion units in 2020 with 5G handset production is expected to reach 235 million units, an ...

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