Q2 silicon wafer shipments rose 8% to 3,152 million square inches compared to the 2,920 million square inches shipped in Q1 and up 6% on Q2 2019, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). “While the short-term outlook remains uncertain due to coronavirus and geopolitical challenges impacting the broader industry, global silicon wafer shipments ...
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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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MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 720 5G SoC for mid-tier smartphones. The Dimensity 720, is part of MediaTek’s 5G chipset family that includes range of chipsets from Dimensity 1000 for flagship 5G smartphones to the Dimensity 800 and 700 series for more accessible 5G mid-tier devices. The 7nm Dimensity 720 SoC is built with MediaTek ...
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Toshiba has added two lens reduction type CCD linear image sensors. Predominantly targeted at implementation in automated optical inspection (AOI) systems, though also suitable for barcode scanners, the TCD1105GFG and TCD1106GFG are 1500pixel monochrome devices that each have a 5.25μm pixel pitch. The TCD1105GFG has a 125V/lux-sec sensitivity, whereas the TCD1106GFG’s sensitivity is 600V/lux-sec. Their ...
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SoftBank has talked to both Nvidia and Apple about selling all or part of Arm to them, reports Bloomberg. Apple, which was one of the founding investors in Arm, is reported to be uninterested in buying Arm outright because it would cause conflicts of interest with Arm’s customers. However Apple, as a user of Arm ...
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