According to a recent SIA report, despite a cyclical market downturn in the second half of 2022, global semiconductor sales hit an all-time high of $574 billion for the year, a 3.3% increase from 1921. From the perspective of the end use of semiconductors, the PC/computer and communication end marke...

On January 6th, 2023, a fire took place at a Welnew plating plant in Wuxi, China. The fire has been extinguished, and no casualties have been reported to date. Welnew is a sub-tier supplier to several semiconductor manufacturers including Infineon, Vishay, BOSCH, and OSRAM which have been slowly r...

According to supply chain, demand for consumer chips is declining rapidly, but demand for automotive chips remains strong, and producers are trying to secure more available fab capacity for the fourth quarter of 2022. Supply chain insiders pointed out that suppliers engaged in the automotive industr...

onsemi recently announced the inauguration of its silicon carbide (SiC) facility in Hudson, New Hampshire. The inauguration of the facility, which was attended by a number of dignitaries led by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, marked the event and the importance of U.S. semiconductor manufa...

According to OSATs and chip packaging material suppliers in the semiconductor supply chain, demand for automotive MCUs and MPUs is still on the rise. Leading OSAT companies, including ASE, have secured orders for automotive MCU back-end outsourcing for the next two quarters from international IDM co...

In the first half of 2022, the consumer electronics market was affected by the weakening of the economic effect of the home, the epidemic, international tensions. Along with the traditional off-season, the demand for related applications such as PCs, laptops, TVs, and smartphones has droped signific...

WASHINGTON—March 3, 2022—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor industry sales were $50.7 billion in the month of January 2022, an increase of 26.8% over the January 2021 total of $40.0 billion and 0.2% less than the December 2021 total of $50.9 billion...

Samsung Electronics: Semiconductors including DRAM, flash, SRAM, graphics memory, MCP, mask ROM, system LSI, TFT LCD modules etc. Intel Corporation: The world leader in silicon innovation develops processor technologies and supports global initiatives. SK Hynix: Memory semiconductor company from Sou...

The semiconductor shortage and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)’ production in 2021, but the top 10 OEMs increased their chip spending by 25.2% and accounted for 42.1% of the total market, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. “Semiconduc...