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2015: A Year In Review
By Lara Chamness - 21 Apr, 2016 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Market Trends Semiconductor revenues were essentially flat in 2015 when compared to 2014 levels according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS). The materials market mirrored the device market, while the equipment market contracted 3%. The semiconductor equipment market typically receives more attention than the materials market, however, and the materials market has... » read more

China: Strong Market Growth And Innovation In Packaging
By SEMI - 17 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

By Shanshan Du Since the mid-1980s, packaging and assembly have been key segments of the semiconductor supply chain in China. In the past decade, the fast growing market of electronic product manufacturing in China occurred concurrently with the innovation and growth in China for packaging and assembly. SEMI China researched the packaging and assembly industry segment and observed a total... » read more

12 Nations Sign Trade Partnership
By SEMI - 18 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

By Taylor Sholler Last week, twelve nations across the Pacific-Rim came together to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Auckland New Zealand. These economies, making-up roughly 40 percent of the world's GDP, include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S., and Vietnam. One of the largest trade agreements in history, the TPP will... » read more

Obama Delivers Unique State-of-the-Union Speech
By SEMI - 21 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

By Jamie Girard On Jan. 12, President Obama delivered his eighth and final State of the Union Address to the nation. The speech is closely watch by many to signal the intent of the commander-in-chief for the coming year, but this time President Obama broke from tradition in focusing grander themes rather that specific programs. While it was decidedly a different approach to the normal laundr... » read more

Case Study: A CEO’s Journey And Learning In M&A
By Jonathan Davis - 17 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Executives at this year’s SEMI International Technology Partners Conference (ITPC) assessed a number of forces currently shaping the semiconductor industry, including such topics as Internet of Things (IoT) investment, mounting technology complexity, the ascent of China, and pervasive industry consolidation. Participants particularly valued ITPC as a thought-leadership platform for sharing st... » read more

The Urge To Merge
By Jonathan Davis - 14 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

The electronics supply chain will remember 2015 as a year of unprecedented consolidation due to relentless acquisition activity, mega mergers and a rampant restructuring of the industry. Almost every other week brought a momentous announcement. Seemingly, before one could appreciate the current status, the industry reverberated with yet another new deal. To better understand the scope of M&A... » read more

MEMS: Flexible, Reusable Platforms Facilitate Innovation
By Paula Doe - 07 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

As the game-changing enabler for whatever the emerging market of widespread fragmented intelligence turns out to look like, the MEMS sector is in some ways the bellwether for much of the greater semiconductor/components supply chain looking to rethink how to serve a wider range of fragmented applications with lower costs and faster time to market. Leaders from Cisco, InvenSense, Nasiri Ventures... » read more

Healthy Growth Predictions For MEMS
By Paula Doe - 30 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

To figure out what’s actually happening in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market, there’s no better place to look than MEMS and sensors, which are enabling this revolution in embedded intelligence in ever more places. The MEMS market is seeing continued steady growth, but components suppliers also are seeing brutal price declines and low margins, while the data analysis side captures... » read more

The Growing Role Of Extended Supply Chain Collaboration
By Karen Savala - 19 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

At the executive keynote panel held at Semicon West 2015, one of the key industry challenges discussed was the growing need for closer collaboration between supply chain partners in order to support the fast time to market and shortened product lifecycles of today’s consumer electronics. Traditionally, the yield ramp phase has been a critical time to resolve manufacturing issues, enable high ... » read more

China’s MEMS Foundry Business Takes Shape
By SEMI - 22 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

By Clark Tseng Over the years, MEMS has evolved from a niche segment to a strong growth market thanks to the wide adoption from mobile devices in recent years. With the industry moving to the Internet of Things (IoT) era, MEMS will play an even more important role ─ enabling the realization of IoT environment. In the semiconductor ecosystem, China is the largest consumption market but i... » read more

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