Indicators show that a weakening of the US economy in mid-2010 will result in a slowdown in semiconductor revenues, according to The Information Network. Personal consumption will...
Intel's Atom processor is being redesigned as a system on a chip (SoC) and will be manufactured by TSMC in an effort to win the mobile Internet device (MID) market. But the investment...
Purchases by chipmakers for advance chips is propelling the market for a rapid recovery in 2010, according to a recent report by The Information Network. Capex can be an important...
Huge ramps in semiconductor equipment purchases by leading foundries and IDMs in July and August will result in the equipment market ending 2009 dropping 40% instead of 46% previously...
Because of the downturn in the overall economy in 2009, semiconductor capacity utilization - the number of semiconductors made as a ratio to the plant (fab) capacity - dropped precipitously...
The MEMS device market is faring much better than the overall semiconductor industry, but the MEMS processing equipment market is suffering the same fate as the semiconductor equipment...
Rises in the book-to-bill ratio for the North America and Japan semiconductor equipment sectors is giving optimism the industry downturn has bottomed out, but The Information Network...
China's cross-strait investment in Taiwan will help the island to survive the global crisis and at the same time help fix its own IC market, according to The Information Network.
LG Micron vaulted to the lead on the heals of LG Display's growth, according to The Information Network. LG Micron took the lead in the TFT-LCD photomask market with a 29.3% share,...
The semiconductor metrology/inspection equipment (MIE) market finally outperformed the rest of the overall semiconductor front-end wafer processing equipment market for the first...
The planned transition to 450mm diameter silicon wafers for semiconductor production will be disastrous for the equipment industry, The Information Network said.
