Taiwan had a 26% market share of semiconductor revenue in 2021, says TrendForce, second only to the US. The island’s IC design and packaging & testing industries account for a 27% and 20% global market share, ranking second and first in the world, respectively. Taiwan accounts for 64% of the foundry market with TSMC possessing ...
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The SiC device market will reach $6.3 billion in 2027, says Yole Developpement. The 809V EV is the answer to fast charging and, with more 800V EVs coming, SiC is expected to grow quickly. The IDM business model is the one chosen by leading players to supply devices, especially power modules. ST is the leading ...
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GPU prices are down sharply giving rise to expectations that the chip shortage could be coming to an end. 3DCenter says that the price of AMD’s Radeon RX6000 and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX30 gaming GPUs has fallen from 80% to 20% above MSRP (Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price). Susquehanna reckons GPU prices have falken from 76% to ...
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Researchers at Intel and QuTech – consisting of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) – have created silicon qubits at scale at Intel’s D1 manufacturing factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. The result is a process that can fabricate more than 10,000 arrays with several silicon-spin qubits ...
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The newly merged 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium on Technology & Circuits is organized around the theme: “Technology & Circuits for the Critical Infrastructure of the Future.” The five-day hybrid event, combining both live sessions onsite at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, as well as on-demand access to selected presentations, is scheduled from June 12 – 17, ...
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Farnell has launched ‘The Innovation Experts’ eBook which features interviews with experts on the future of instrumentation for test, measurement, and related technologies. The eBook, which is free to download, shares the views of leading global manufacturers on the future of instrumentation for test, measurement, and related technologies. The eBook provides unique insights for professional ...
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Nine members of the US House of Representatives have protested about the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to the Chinese company Wingtech – the owner of Nexperia. “The UK is a valued ally of the United States, and we hope it will decide to change course,” the congressmen wrote in a letter to President Joe ...
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Wafer capacity will grow 8.7% this year as 10 new fabs enter production, says IC Insights’ Update to the 2022 McLean Report, but strong unit growth will keep industry capacity utilisation at 93% in 2022. Over the past five years annual wafer start growth rates have ranged from -4.7% in 2019 to 19.0% growth in ...
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Rakuten, the virtualised O-vRAN network operator, will use the VIAVI TM500 Network Tester to validate inter-operability of O-RAN network components. The principal objective is to maximize resolution of any issues in the lab in order to accelerate deployment at scale, and it has been designed to simulate a citywide network. O-RAN is taking off with ...
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Demand for chip manufacturing equipment is showing no sign of weakening, says ASML CEO Peter Wennink. “We’re just looking at the data points, they just point to a market that is significantly short of semiconductor manufacturing capacity. This year and next year,” said Wennink yesterday on the company’s Q1 results call. “Currently we see no ...
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