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Top Takeaways From SEMI-MSIG MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress 2017
By Paula Doe - 16 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

The MEMS and sensors sector has been talking about smarter, lower power devices forever, but this year’s recent SEMI-MSIG Executive Congress stressed the market drivers and the emerging technologies that look to bring those changes to the market. Ubiquitous sensing now demands lower power for its always-aware sensors to be useful, while acoustic wave and piezoelectric technologies are emer... » read more

What’s Up With MEMS?
By Paula Doe - 19 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 0

New sensor technologies, and smarter ways of integrating more intelligence, continue to generate unexpected opportunities in the changing MEMS business. Changes needed for sensors for context awareness If digital assistants are ever going to be really useful, they’ll need some particular sensor capabilities to understand emotion, suggests Lama Nachman, head of Intel’s Anticipatory Compu... » read more

Fab Equipment Spending Sets New Record
By Christian Dieseldorff - 21 Sep, 2017 - Comments: 0

Fab equipment spending (new and refurbished) is expected to increase by 37% for 2017, reaching a new annual spending record of about $55 billion. The World Fab Forecast also forecasts that in 2018, fab equipment spending will increase even more, another 5%, for a record high of about $58 billion. The last record spending was in 2011 with about $40 billion. The spending in 2017 is now expected t... » read more

Funding China’s 200mm Fabs
By Clark Tseng - 07 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

China’s ambitious plans to build a world-class semiconductor manufacturing supply chain domestically certainly has the industry’s attention. With over a dozen new 300mm fab announcements lately from Foundries, DRAM, 3D NAND, and as well as CMOS image sensor companies (either from international semiconductor makers or from indigenous players), China has launched a huge investment in wafer fa... » read more

Going Vertical?
By Debra Vogler - 15 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

The topic of transistor scaling has been traditionally covered at SEMICON West in its own right. This year’s event, however, will also explore scaling in 3D, as well as using packaging to accomplish similar objectives. Along with traditional transistor scaling, speakers will tackle design and metrology considerations for scaling the package, and address the economic decisions that inform dens... » read more

Fab Spending Hits New High
By Christian Dieseldorff - 07 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

The latest update to the World Fab Forecast report, published on May 31, 2017 by SEMI, reveals record spending for fab construction and fab equipment. Korea, Taiwan, and China all see large investments, and spending in Europe has also increased significantly. In 2017, over US$49 billion will be spent on equipment alone, a historic record for the semiconductor industry. Spending on new fab cons... » read more

North America Equipment Market Rebounds
By Lara Chamness - 18 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Coming off of two consecutive down years, the North America semiconductor fab equipment market is set to experience growth this year and into 2018. The market is primarily being driven by investments from Samsung, Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Micron, which are expected to account for 85 percent of fab equipment purchased in the region this year. These fab equipment purchases are targeted ... » read more

SEMI Members Mobilize For 2017 SEMI Washington Forum
By Jamie Girard - 20 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

SEMI hosted 24 industry executives in Washington, DC on March 28 & 29 to take part in the annual SEMI Washington Forum. The Washington Forum, which is supported by SEMI’s North American Advisory Board (NAAB), gives SEMI member company executives a chance to come to the Nation’s capital for a firsthand experience in engaging policymakers on the issues that are pertinent to the industry. ... » read more

China Moves To Top Spot In Fab Equipment Spending
By Clark Tseng - 16 Feb, 2017 - Comments: 0

By Clark Tseng, Dan Tracy & Gavin Wang of SEMI With 20, and possibly more, new fab projects underway or announced in China since 2016, spending on fab equipment will surge to $10 billion or more, annually, by 2018 and to even higher levels in the following two years. As a result, China is projected to be the top spending region for fab equipment in 2019 and 2020. Robert Maire, of Semicon... » read more

China Factors Heavily In Policy And Business Considerations
By Deborah Geiger - 19 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

The year begins with intensified attention to China’s rapid semiconductor industry growth, which was a central theme of the recent SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) and also weighed heavily in a new report from a Presidential advisory council. Speaking at the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS), Handel Jones, CEO of International Business Strategies (IBS), forecast the global sem... » read more

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