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Inflection Points Ahead
By Ed Sperling - 23 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Engineering challenges have existed at every process node in semiconductor designs, but at 20nm and beyond, engineers and executives on all sides of the industry are talking about inflection points. An inflection point is literally the place where a curve on a graph turns down or up, but in the semiconductor industry it’s usually associated with the point at which a progres... » read more

Experts at the Table: Stacking the Deck
By Ed Sperling - 23 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss challenges to 3D-IC adoption with Samta Bansal, product marketing for applied silicon realization in strategy and market development at Cadence; Carey Robertson, product marketing director at Mentor Graphics; Karthik Chandrasekar, member of technical staff in IC Design at Altera; and Herb Reiter, president of EDA2ASIC Consulting... » read more

Substrates for Semiconductor Packaging
By SEMI - 16 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

2012 Market Outlook for Laminate and Leadframe Materials By Jan Vardaman, TechSearch International, and Dan Tracy, SEMI Combined, laminate substrates and leadframes will represent an estimated US$ 13.3 billion market in 2011 and is forecasted to reach $14 billion in 2012. This is larger than the revenues for silicon wafers (including silicon-on-insulator wafers) of $10.3 billion in 2011 and... » read more

State Of The Semiconductor industry
By Ed Sperling - 06 Jul, 2011 - Comments: 0

Jonathan Davis, executive vice president of SEMI, drills down into the state of the chip industry, what's driving the changes and what the big issues are for manufacturing and design in the future. [youtube vid=pjp5i3N1Cw4] » read more

Wafer Demand Outpaces Semiconductor Unit Growth in 2011
By Joanne Itow - 28 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow Semiconductor unit sales remain strong and are expected to reach 718 billion in 2011, an 8.6% growth over 2010. Unit sales are driving wafer demand at both advanced and mature fabs. Total silicon demand is expected to grow by 10% in 2011. In the first quarter of 2011, semiconductor unit sales increased 1.3% over Q4 2010, reflecting an unusually healthy growth compared to the ... » read more

Wafer Demand: Good to Grow in 2011
By Joanne Itow - 25 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow The foundries are ramping 32nm/28nm production but that’s only one of the reasons wafer demand is forecast to grow at above average rates this year.  MEMS and sensors will help to grow wafer demand at the ≥1000nm technology nodes.  Wafers processed at ≥1000nm technology will grow by 10.2% in 2011.  That’s on top of the 25% growth experienced in 2010. Microcontrolle... » read more

Wafer Demand Grows Despite Supply Chain Jitters
By Joanne Itow - 07 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow Semiconductor revenue growth broke records in 2010 increasing almost 32% over 2009.  Units grew an equally impressive 25% forcing manufacturers to increase productivity and ramp up additional capacity as quickly as possible. Increased use of leading edge process technology was evident as products processed at 45nm and smaller grew to 16.8% of the total silicon demand in 2010... » read more

Behind The Scenes
By Ed Sperling - 01 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

This year’s DAC should be one of the more interesting shows in several years, although not for the usual reasons. As an industry, we are just emerging from one of the worst downturns in decades. It started in December 2007, and various segments of the overall economy will begin picking up at different times, depending upon whether they’re leading indicators or trailing indicators. Netb... » read more

Start Your Engines
By Ed Sperling - 14 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

For all intents and purposes, the downturn appears to be over. Like the California drought, it takes time to refill the reservoirs, but at least the economic base level is rising. All of the leading indicators in the semiconductor market point upward and to the right. iSuppli reports that distributor inventories are below average, which is particularly interesting given that the electronic... » read more

Where Did All The Jobs Go?
By Ed Sperling - 18 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

Recoveries are measured in dollars, not in jobs. This one—and even the last recovery in 2003—will produce far fewer full-time jobs in the short run than past recoveries. That doesn’t mean companies won’t hire great numbers of workers. But much of that will be contract labor. The trend is to not hire full timers until it’s hard to get enough qualified people to do contract work be... » read more

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