Entries for September 2015
Apple Seen Splitting 14/16nm Orders Among Foundries into 2016
posted on September 22, 2015 08:05
TAIPEI — Apple, the world’s largest buyer of chips made with leading process technology, is likely to divvy up its orders for 14/16nm products this year and next as part of a strategy to gain pricing power over foundry suppliers such as Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), according to six analysts surveyed by EE Times.
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Superconducting Graphene Beckons
posted on September 22, 2015 08:04
PORTLAND, Ore.—Graphene has been hailed as the wonder material for the post-silicon era slated to start circa 2028 by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.
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ALD Market Heats Up
posted on September 22, 2015 08:03
Amid the shift to 3D NAND, finFETs and other device architectures, the atomic layer deposition (ALD) market is heating up on several fronts.
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Chips Slump as Drivers Falter
posted on September 22, 2015 08:02
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Market researchers at Gartner are weeks away from lowering their forecasts for semiconductor growth in 2015 for the second time this year, this time to as little as 0.5%.
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Q&A with GloFo CEO: ‘IoT Is No Mystical Animal’
posted on September 22, 2015 08:01
SHANGHAI — PC shipments are going down all over the world. The smartphone market is losing steam. The chip industry is expecting a down year in 2016. Practically every chip vendor in the world is groping for growth drivers for the semiconductor market.
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Apple Unveils New Chips For Mobile
posted on September 14, 2015 17:05
Apple rented out a much larger venue — the 7,000-person capacity Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco — to unveil today (Sept 9) a handful of devices that are much, much smaller. The company’s new iPad and iPhone will run new processors with an updated architecture.
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Equipment Spending Slows but Still Positive in 2015 and 2016
posted on September 14, 2015 17:04
Front End fab equipment spending (including new, used, and in-house) is projected to increase 5.0 percent in 2015 (to US$ 37.0 billion) and another 6.6 percent in 2016 (to $39.4 billion) according to most recent edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast. SEMI data indicates that some companies still plan to increase equipment spending in the second half of 2015, compared to the first half.
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Challenges At Advanced Nodes
posted on September 14, 2015 17:03
Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss finFETs, 22nm FD-SOI and how the how the market will segment over the next few years with Marie Semeria, CEO of Leti; Patrick Soheili, vice president of product management and corporate development at eSilicon; Paul Boudre, CEO of Soitec; and Subramani Kengeri, vice president of global design solutions at GlobalFoundries. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.
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IoT Is About Older Nodes, Cheaper Dev
posted on September 14, 2015 17:02
The upcoming IEEE S3S Conference 2015, Sonoma, CA, on October 5th thru 8th, will focus on key technologies for the IoT era. Here are some of the highlights in the upcoming event.
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Semiconductor outlook negative
posted on September 14, 2015 17:01
The semiconductor industry is expected to grow at an anemic 2 percent annually this year as demand for cell phones shrinks amid a stuttering macroeconomy and prolonged inventory correction, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA, 台灣半導體產業協會) said yesterday.
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