IC Insights today released its forecast of top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 2018. It includes seven suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Europe, two each in South Korea and Japan, and one in Taiwan...

IC Insights pointed that IC market is expected to enter a period of cyclical “cooling” after an extended period of very strong growth. Figure illustrates the worldwide quarterly year-over-year IC market increases from 1Q through 3Q and IC Insights’ forecast for 4Q of this year...

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has completed all process technology development and has started wafer production of its revolutionary process node, 7LPP, the 7-nanometer (nm) LPP (Low Power Plus) with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology...

HSINCHU, Taiwan - M31 Technology today announced that it has developed a diversified TSMC 28HPC + Ultra-Low Power (ULL) Memory Compiler IP portfolio that provides customers with more flexibility in their SoC design. “TSMC’s 28HPC+ ULL memory bit-cell provides further leakage reduction for mainstream smart phones...

IC Insights’ September Update to The McClean Report shows that as a result of a 51% forecasted increase in the China pure-play foundry market this year, China’s total share of the 2018 pure-play foundry market is expected to jump by five percentage points to 19%, exceeding the share held by the rest of the Asia-Pacific region...

TAIWAN, Hsinchu – M31 Technology Corporation announced today that its MIPI M-PHY Gear3 IP has been certified with the ASIL B safety level of ISO 26262 and will be used by international first-class automotive electronics manufacturers to provide safe and reliable automotive SoC design...

In its Mid-Year Update to the 2018 McClean Report, IC Insights updated its forecast of sales growth for each of the 33 major IC product categories defined by WSTS. IC Insights now projects that seven product categories will exceed the 16% growth rate expected from the total IC market this year...