HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology Corporation today unveiled the success of projector ASICs, covering high-end 4K/8K projector, head-up display (HUD), AR, and 3D sensing pico-projector applications for top-tier projector manufacturers in Japan, USA, and Taiwan...

Research included in the April Update to the 2018 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report shows that the world’s leading semiconductor suppliers significantly increased their marketshare over the past decade. The top-5 semiconductor suppliers accounted for 43% of the world’s semiconductor sales in 2017, an increase of 10 percentage points from 10 years earlier...

SEMI announced that after several years of incremental increases the worldwide semiconductor photomask market surged 13 percent to a record high $3.75 billion in 2017 and is forecast to exceed $4.0 billion in 2019. The mask market is expected to grow 5 percent and 4 percent in 2018 and 2019, respectively, according to the SEMI report...

SEMI reported that worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $56.6 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 37 percent from 2016 sales of $41.24 billion. The data are available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report, now available from SEMI...

Fueled by heavy government investment, IC packaging and testing in China generated $29 billion in revenue in 2017, making China the world’s largest consumer of packaging equipment and materials, according to SEMI’s recent China Semiconductor Packaging Industry Outlook report...

HSINCHU, Taiwan – eMemory announces its collaboration with Europractice to offer eMemory’s eNVM (Embedded Non-volatile Memory) IP to European academia and startups. Under the announced partnership, eMemory will provide its eNVM solutions through the world-leading research and innovation hub imec in the Europractice IC Service program for startups as well as over 600 universities and research institutes in the Europe region...

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.41 billion in billings worldwide in February 2018 (three-month average basis), according to the February Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI...