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Moore's Law says that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit, without cost drawbacks, doubles about every two years.
That means that manufacturing process technologies have to be planned well in advance, and this is precisely what United Microelectronics Corp. is doing.
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25 May 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Wafers are thin slices of highly processed silicon that are used to make integrated circuits. When global wafer shipments grew, so did the whole semiconductor industry. SEMI has reportedly concluded that the total wafer area shipments has grown 1 percent compared to last quarter. That can be called good news only ... |
11 May 2012
03:05 GMT |
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International Data Corporation (IDC) has made public its latest Worldwide Semiconductor Applications Forecaster (SAF) today. The company’s market analysis shows that the entire semiconductor market grew a modest 3.7 percent in the last year. This 3.7% may seem small and it really is a modest growth, but consid... |
30 April 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Although the Taiwanese company is in the middle of a serious 28nm manufacturing capacity expansion, Morris Chang, chairman and chief executive of TSMC, gave a rather somber outlook for the overall semiconductor industry. He said that the expected growth would range between 2% and 3%. TSMC is investing heavily in cap... |
25 April 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Toshiba was one of the corporations who lost a factory during the Thai floods in 2011, so it has decided to rebuild it in a different area.
The facility belonged to Toshiba's sub-division Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand Co., Ltd. (TST), which was established in 1990.
Once the new fab is built, TST will be able... |
24 April 2012
08:44 GMT |
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The Abu Dhabi investment group that bought the CPU FABs from AMD some time ago and renamed them Globalfoundries, is now investing $4,8 million (3,6 mil. Eur), along with Germany’s State of Saxony into semiconductor research. The theme of the two-year research is a three-dimensional chip packaging, but it will ... |
18 April 2012
08:36 GMT |
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For every product, there is a counterfeit, or the reality of things is close enough to this statement that people don't bother trying to debate its validity.
Analysts from IHS iSuppli decided to try to figure out how much counterfeit semiconductors cost the worldwide electronics industry in a year.
Even when ... |
7 April 2012
06:26 GMT |
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We've learned that the SK Group, an industrial conglomerate from South Korea, has invested an undisclosed sum of money into Hynix Semiconductor. What this means is that Hynix will henceforth be called SK Hynix and will start making other sorts of semiconductors besides memory chips. The company is already a ... |
27 March 2012
20:31 GMT |
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When looking at the state of the semiconductor market, iSuppli discovered something about 2011.
Apparently, Intel's overall chip market share was of 15.6%, quite a bit over the 13.1% of 2010.
In fact, it was the largest market share Intel has had during the last 10 years, which is really saying something.
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27 March 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Technology research firm Gartner issued a report today confirming that Apple was the largest single buyer of semiconductors last year, being trailed only by Samsung and Hewlett-Packard. Redefining the meaning of stating the obvious, Gartner points out that semiconductor spending increased because Apple sold more stu... |
24 January 2012
08:26 GMT |
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Intel may still have no problem with Moore's Law, but Advanced Micro Devices found that the advantages enabled by more advanced manufacturing process technologies aren't as obvious as a few years ago.
Normally, a new manufacturing node (40nm, 32nm, 28nm, etc.) is introduced once every 18 to 24 months.
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17 December 2011
03:49 GMT |
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One would think that, with all the troubles on the RAM market and everything else, there wouldn't be much to see when looking at the worldwide semiconductor industry, but that is not the case.In fact, from what the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) can tell, 2011 could mark an industry first.The global... |
1 December 2011
21:21 GMT |
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Quantum tunneling might just become the basis for quantum computers, or at least the tunnel-FET technology will, as soon as current methods and hardware stops being so much more convenient because of familiarity.
Then again, the PC has come such a long way in less than half a century that it is more or less clear t... |
25 November 2011
10:22 GMT |
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It isn't hard to guess that the chip market isn't doing so hot lately, but analysts have uncovered that things are somewhat worse than most would tend to believe.
One way of knowing whether or not demand for a specific IT segment is healthy is to look at the product stockpiles.
In other words, the Da... |
8 October 2011
06:22 GMT |
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After many months of almost constant downward price slide, the DRAM market has seen one of the very few recoveries, even if it is unclear if the trend will last for any significant period of time.The semiconductor industry is a part of the IT industry that was hit fairly hard by the recession, though other factors w... |
26 September 2011
11:05 GMT |
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TSMC may have seen its fair share of hurdles, but it looks like, at least right now, it isn't doing so badly for itself, provided a recent rumor about its finances going upward isn't inaccurate or plain out false.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has not exactly been at the center of go... |
12 September 2011
08:23 GMT |
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Chips have advanced quite quickly in terms of manufacturing node size, and Globalfoundries has announced that it already taped out 20nm test units, aided by leading EDA vendors.Globalfoundries is one of the two major chip manufacturing corporations of the world, the other being TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturi... |
30 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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It appears that all the troubles that hit the IT industry this year are turning out to be less disastrous than originally expected, with analysts now believing that the semiconductor market will still manage a significant growth by the end of 2011.As the world knows, Japan was hit by a very big disaster on March 11,... |
23 June 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Micron and Elpida are usually known as rivals on the market for semiconductor products, but if certain reports are true the two might end up joining forces in order to compete with a certain other strong presence in the field.Partnerships on the IT market can be seen as more or less just as common as lawsuits are fo... |
21 June 2011
06:03 GMT |
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A research note by IHS iSuppli reveals that Cupertino-based Apple is now the world’s largest OEM semiconductor buyer, surpassing Hewlett Packard.
Apple became the largest buyer of semiconductors among original equipment manufacturers for the first time ever, and it’s all due to booming demand for the i... |
9 June 2011
04:15 GMT |
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It appears that, at least so far, the disaster that struck Japan in the month of March hasn't had too great an effect on the semiconductor industry, although disruptions may still emerge in the short to mid-term.The natural disaster that hit Japan on March 11 will always be remembered because of the immense dea... |
3 June 2011
04:42 GMT |
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Companies or analysts may look at CPUs, DRAM and NAND chips individually when trying to figure out how well they sold, but SIA decided to look at the semiconductor market as a whole.The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), as its name implies, keeps track of all developments on the worldwide chip market.Turns o... |
3 May 2011
10:19 GMT |
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With all the success that slates and e-book readers have been enjoying, it isn't that big of a surprise to hear that the sales of parts using in their creation would jump this year, but IDC decided to say just by how much chip shipments will improve.As consumers know, the tablet market, particularly the segment... |
5 April 2011
09:06 GMT |
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It seems that, once again, analysts have taken a close look at what state the semiconductor market is in, and while March results are still to come, SIA established how the month of February turned out.As its name implies, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is responsible with monitoring the happenings on ... |
4 April 2011
09:53 GMT |
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End-users will have likely heard of the ditch the DRAM industry slid into during the later parts of 2010, and which it more or less still is in, but it seems the effects of it were more pronounced than one might expect.As far as industrial decline goes, two of the more unfortunate developments on the IT segment are ... |
2 April 2011
07:06 GMT |
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While certain companies are busy with restructuring and ending up bereft of their figureheads, others are looking to expand, such as Samsung Austin Semiconductor, which intends to boost its workforce.
One can safely say that the first quarter of 2011 was one that saw many strange things come to pass, and this inc... |
2 April 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Moore's Law has practically dictated the development of newer and better processors, particularly the advancement to the next manufacturing process, but a certain natural disaster might just compromise it.One might say that there are two big problems with natural disasters, and those that they are most unpredic... |
22 March 2011
10:35 GMT |
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As far as finances go, 2011 appears to be a year of optimism, since so very many companies hope for high revenues, and even though the disaster in Japan will likely leave some companies with a lot on their plate, Globalfoundries is one of those that still aims high.It looks like the IT market is still in its state o... |
22 March 2011
09:17 GMT |
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It was hard to get an idea of just how severely the IT market was hurt by the disaster that hit japan on March 11, but it seems things are finally becoming clear, and they are looking none too well.The one big problem in Japan, even now, is the ongoing crisis at the damaged nuclear power plant, in danger of reactor ... |
22 March 2011
04:32 GMT |
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As one would expect, the massive natural disaster in Japan is proving to have far-reaching consequences, not just in terms of casualties but also as far as the world economy goes, in this case the semiconductor market.No doubt people around the world have already heard of the massive earthquake that struck Japan a f... |
14 March 2011
02:05 GMT |
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Yesterday was the day when one of the most serious natural disasters of our world's recent history struck Japan, and it seems that there will most likely be serious consequences on the electronics market.No doubt end-users will have learned of the catastrophic event that slammed Japan just about a day ago.What ... |
12 March 2011
05:19 GMT |
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There may or may not be a chance for the DRAM industry to start recovering, price-wise, by the end of the month, but the fact is that average selling prices of chips are still abysmal even now.As some may know, the DRAM segment is one part of the semiconductor industry that has definitely not been going through its ... |
11 March 2011
07:23 GMT |
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Each month, market analysts take the time to see how things progressed on each market segment during the previous one, and it seems that semiconductors have been doing well recently, both sequentially and on-year.Some consumers may know of how different segments of the semiconductor industry are behaving and/or have... |
8 March 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Marvell figured it was time for it to present its financial situation at the end of the fourth quarter of its Fiscal Year 2011, and it seems that both the final three-month period and the entire FY proved lucrative for the company.Marvell is a company that specializes in storage, communications and consumer silicon ... |
4 March 2011
04:29 GMT |
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End-users will probably have heard about how TSMC is moving fast to better manufacturing processes, and it appears that the first shipments of its 28nm process have finally begun, or so it is reported.TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is, technically, already well ahead of all companies that deal in ... |
23 February 2011
05:50 GMT |
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It appears that TSMC has reached the point where it must expand its wafer capacity in order to cope with growing demand for chips and with the (supposedly) upcoming spike in semiconductor orders.End-users keeping track of what is happening on the IT market will probably be aware of the fact that chip sales are expec... |
18 February 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Market research firm iSuppli already found that Samsung, among few others, had done well for itself as a DRAM maker during 2010, but it seems semiconductor inventories are still a bit too high according to most tastes.The semiconductor market is composed of many subsegments, but it seems things aren't as good a... |
17 February 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Since the semiconductor market is growing along with everything else, now that the recession is fading, TSMC decided it was time for a solid expansion so it set up its budget for the year 2011.Like so many other IT market players out there, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company performed quite well, from a fina... |
16 February 2011
10:30 GMT |
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It appears that quite a few companies are experiencing the January effect, so to speak, as revenues are generally falling for everyone, on year, on month or, in the case of particularly unfortunate companies, both.That January is proving to have been less than overly favorable for pretty much every company out there... |
10 February 2011
07:00 GMT |
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It appears that, unlike certain other semiconductor companies, Realtek is actually quite optimistic in regards to its performance during the ongoing first quarter of 2011, or so says a certain recent report.The situation on the semiconductor market can be seen as a sort of mosaic if one were to consider each type of... |
1 February 2011
07:09 GMT |
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There have been various reports about the semiconductor market and how some of the chip makers performance in 2010, especially during the fourth quarter, but SIA has finally issued its press release regarding the overall situation.The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) found that all major semiconductor catego... |
1 February 2011
03:00 GMT |
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It seems that the favorable financial results that TSMC finished 2010 with were enough to paint a pretty picture ahead of the world-class foundry, and its forecast for 2011 speaks for itself.As end-users know, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the foundry in charge with making the majority of AMD ... |
28 January 2011
11:05 GMT |
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It seems that, despite how the general economy seems to be recovering, the semiconductor market isn't doing very well, or at least Toshiba isn't doing very well on this segment is recent reports are anything to go by.The past month has been quite well supplied with rumors and reports about how certain mark... |
26 January 2011
06:04 GMT |
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It seems that leading-brand companies managed to increase their combined stake in the worldwide semiconductor market, with sales of mobile PCs, smartphones and LCDs being the strongest driving forces.It seems that the combined semiconductor market share of the world's top 10 OEMs increased during 2010, by $26.3... |
21 January 2011
09:35 GMT |
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It seems that a consortium of Russian investors have taken an interest in the troubles of a certain company that had, at one time, earned quite a bit of attention for its plastic semiconductors.Plastic Logic is one of those companies that fell on hard times because of marketing and industrial conditions even though ... |
18 January 2011
06:52 GMT |
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Even with all the troubles surrounding the DRAM and NAND Flash chip average selling prices (ASPs), it seems that the global semiconductor market actually reached record revenues.While news did talk repeatedly about decline in prices of DRAM and NAND chips, such developments only happened in the later parts of 2010.A... |
14 January 2011
09:27 GMT |
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As a leading supplier of semiconductors, TSMC has always found the need to expand, but it must also be careful what kind of facilities it builds if it is to stay in business, which is why it has not yet decided on what to do with its next fab.For those end-users that do not know, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C... |
20 December 2010
10:58 GMT |
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With the NAND and DRAM market going through a bit of a rough period, market analysts looked forward and tried to figure out how the situation would progress for 2011, and it seems that growth won't be as high as some may like.Since the year is almost over, analysts are already studying the composition of the ma... |
11 December 2010
07:01 GMT |
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It appears that the month of November is returning mixed results for the many members of the IT market, and TSMC, this once, made it into the group of those with less than exceptional marketing performance.
After it got over the last of its problems with the 40nm process several months back, Taiwan Semiconductor ... |
11 December 2010
05:47 GMT |
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While Intel and AMD are still the two major rivals on the CPU market, things are vastly different on the overall chip market, where Samsung is actually the holder of the second place as worldwide supplier.The semiconductor market includes multiple segments, such as the CPU, the DRAM, the NAND and that of other appli... |
9 December 2010
05:41 GMT |
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