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Semiconductor Units Forecast To Exceed 1 Trillion Devices Again in 2021 (2021.04.11)
Total semiconductor unit shipments, which include integrated circuits as well as optoelectronics, sensor/actuator, and discrete (O-S-D) devices, are forecast to rise 13% in 2021, to 1,135.3 billion (1.1353 trillion) units to set a new all-time annual record, based on data presented in the 2021 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry |
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Semiconductor Units Forecast To Exceed 1 Trillion Devices Again in 2021 (2021.04.11)
Total semiconductor unit shipments, which include integrated circuits as well as optoelectronics, sensor/actuator, and discrete (O-S-D) devices, are forecast to rise 13% in 2021, to 1,135.3 billion (1.1353 trillion) units to set a new all-time annual record, based on data presented in the 2021 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry |
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Intel to Keep Its Number One Semiconductor Supplier Ranking in 2020 (2020.11.24)
IC Insights announced its November Update to the 2020 McClean Report. The forecasted 2020 top-15 semiconductor supplier ranking includes eight suppliers headquartered in the U.S., two each in South Korea, Taiwan, and Europe, and one in Japan |
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Imec Presents Alternative Metals in Advanced Interconnect and Contact Schemes As a Path to 2nm Nodes (2020.10.10)
At the 2020 International Interconnect Technology Conference, imec demonstrates for the first time electrically functional 2-metal-level interconnects fabricated with Ru semi-damascene and airgap technology showing a long lifetime and good mechanical strength |
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Chip Manufacturing Equipment Spending to Hit Record High $70 Billion in 2021 After Strong 2020 (2020.07.22)
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase six percent to $63.2 billion in 2020 compared to $59.6 billion in 2019 before logging record high revenue of $70 billion in 2021 on the strength of double-digit growth, SEMI announced today in releasing its Mid-Year Total Semiconductor Equipment Forecast – OEM Perspective at the annual SEMICON West exposition |
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Taiwan Edges South Korea as Largest Base for IC Wafer Capacity (2020.06.29)
In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly IC wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). Figure shows the installed IC capacity by region as of December of 2019 |
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Metrology/Inspection Semiconductor Equipment Driven by 5nm (2020.06.04)
Advanced state-of-the-art IC production at 5 nanometer dimensions will be a catalyst for strong growth in the semiconductor metrology/inspection equipment market in 2020 and 2021, according to the report “Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control in VLSI Manufacturing,” recently published by The Information Network |
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Global Semiconductor Market Expects 1.2% YoY Growth in 2020 Amid COVID-19 (2020.06.03)
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, it is anticipated the global semiconductor market will still grow 1.2% year-on-year in 2020 although it may face a one-to-two quarter delay in demand recovery, according to MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a government think tank and IT research institute in Taipei |
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China to Fall Far Short of its "Made-in-China 2025" Goal for IC Devices (2020.05.22)
IC production in China represented 15.7% of its $125 billion IC market in 2019, up only slightly from 15.1% five years earlier in 2014. IC Insights forecasts that this share will increase by 5.0 percentage points to 20.7% in 2024 (one percentage point per year on average) |
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TSIA Q1 2020 Statistics on Taiwan IC Industry (2020.05.18)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The TSIA survey showed that Q1 2020 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$723.8 billion (US$23.4B) (4.0% decline on-quarter and up 28.3% on-year), with NT$174 |
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Semiconductor Downturn to Continue Into 2020 Due to COVID-19 Impact (2020.05.04)
Ahead of the COVID-19 virus, worldwide semiconductor revenue declined 12.2% in 2019 to $418 billion, according to the latest update of the IDC Semiconductor Applications Forecaster (SAF). The global economy in 2019 grew at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis in 2008, and US-China trade disputes grounded semiconductor sentiment and demand |
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IC Unit Shipments Forecast to Display First-Ever Back-to-Back Decline (2020.04.23)
IC Insights forecasts that worldwide IC unit shipments will register their first-ever back-to-back annual decline in 2020.
From 2013 through 2018, IC unit shipments were on a respectable growth path with an 8% increase logged in 2013, a 9% jump registered in 2014, a 5% increase displayed in 2015, a 7% increase shown in 2016, a double-digit growth rate of 15% in 2017, and a 10% increase in 2018 |
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COVID-19 Impact on Global Semiconductor Production to be Moderate but Severe on IDMs: MIC (2020.04.14)
MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a government think tank and IT research institute in Taiwan, has foreseen a moderate impact of COVID-19 outbreak on the production of the global semiconductor industry. However, if COVID-19 lingers longer than expected, the industry will eventually be affected by the decrease in consumer market demand, says MIC |
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Global IC Market Forecast Lowered From 3% to -4%, Says IC Insights (2020.04.12)
When 2020 started, global economic conditions pointed to single-digit percentage sales growth in the IC market after it fell by 15% in 2019, according to IC Insights. However, the world abruptly changed in 1Q20 with the rapid outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, which shut down nearly all countries and paralyzed global markets beginning in March 2020 |
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Global IC Market Forecast Lowered From 3% to -4%, Says IC Insights (2020.04.12)
When 2020 started, global economic conditions pointed to single-digit percentage sales growth in the IC market after it fell by 15% in 2019, according to IC Insights. However, the world abruptly changed in 1Q20 with the rapid outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, which shut down nearly all countries and paralyzed global markets beginning in March 2020 |
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Samsung Announces Industry (2020.03.25)
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has successfully shipped one million of the industry's first 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 (Double Date Rate 4) DRAM modules based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. The new EUV-based DRAM modules have completed global customer evaluations, and will open the door to more cutting-edge EUV process nodes for use in premium PC, mobile, enterprise server and datacenter applications |
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Samsung Announces Industry's First EUV DRAM with Shipment of First Million Modules (2020.03.25)
SamsungElectronics today announced that it has successfully shipped one million of the industry's first 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 (Double Date Rate 4) DRAM modules based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. The new EUV-based DRAM modules have completed global customer evaluations, and will open the door to more cutting-edge EUV process nodes for use in premium PC, mobile, enterprise server and datacenter applications |
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Propelled by 51% Share of IDM Sales and 65% Share of Fabless Sales, U.S. Companies Captured 55% (2020.03.22)
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 |
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Propelled by 51% Share of IDM Sales and 65% Share of Fabless Sales, U.S. Companies Captured 55% (2020.03.22)
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 |
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TSMC and NCTU Work on Wafer-scale One-atom-thick Insulating Layer Technology (2020.03.17)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Under long-term support from the “Taiwan Consortium of Emergent Crystalline Materials” (TCECM) program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, a research team at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) collaborated with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to form an industry-university joint research team, reporting a breakthrough in the synthesis of one-atom-thick boron nitride (BN) |
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