The IC industry has been on a mission to pare down older capacity (i.e., ≤200mm wafers) in order to produce devices more cost-effectively on larger wafers. In its recently released Global Wafer ...

SAN JOSE — The chip industry's IC wafer fab utilization rate plunged to 72.7% of installed capacity in the second quarter from 83.8% in Q1 of this year, according to new statistics release by the ...

IC Insights recently released its Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023 report that provides in-depth analyses and forecasts of IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process geometry, by region, and by ...

Back in 2012, China ranked fifth among seven regions worldwide in IC wafer capacity but surged past the Americas and Japan in 2018 and 2019 to claim the number three position (figure 1). That’s a big ...

The top-5 wafer capacity leaders saw their combined installed capacity represent 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, according to IC Insights. In 2009, the top-10 wafer capacity ...

SK Group has sated that it believes the wafer shortage could last until 2030, which would continue to further restrict its capabilities to keep up with manufacturing demand for High Bandwidth Memory ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan continued to lead in IC wafer production capacity throughout 2018 with a 21.8 percent share of the world's total. The country was trailed by South Korea, which accounted ...

IC wafer capacity is forecast to grow 8.7% in 2022 after rising 8.5% in 2021, thanks to the addition of 10 new 300mm fabs that are scheduled to open this year, according to IC Insights. Some ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AKHAN Semiconductor (AKHAN), a technology company specializing in the fabrication and application of synthetic, lab-grown electronics-grade diamond materials addressing ...

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM) shares are trading higher on Wednesday after the firm unveiled a new foundry path for co-packaged optics. The company expanded its wafer-scale 3D-IC platform to ...