Back-end segment and the wafer-level packaging (WLP)-related segments ruled the semiconductor market during the year Global semiconductor capex on manufacturing equipment declined 16.1% during 2012 to $37.8bn compared to 2011, according ...
Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
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The global semiconductor materials market decreased 2 percent in 2012 compared to 2011 while worldwide semiconductor revenues declined 3 percent. Revenues of $47.11 mark the first decline in the semiconductor materials market in three ...
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Despite stronger-than-expected growth during the fourth quarter, 2012 was still a miserable year for the semiconductor market and suppliers, with only eight out of the Top 25 chipmakers managing to eke out revenue growth—but nine ...
Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm are top three. Global semiconductor revenue has declined 2.6% to $299.9bn in 2012, according to a report from Gartner. The top 25 semiconductor vendors reported a 2.8% decrease in annual revenue, and accounted ...
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The increase was driven by the memory sales Global semiconductors sales increased 1.4% in February 2013 to $23.25bn compared to the sales of $22.93bn in February 2012, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). In ...
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On March 1, "Fortune" magazine publishes "2013 Global Most Admired Companies" list and Baosteel is again on the list.. According to this year's "Fortune" list, Apple, Google, Amazon rank the top three of the Most Admired Companies and ...
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Asahi Glass and nMode Solutions of Arizona have formed a semiconductor packaging company called Triton Micro Technologies to develop via-fill technology using ultra-thin glass to make interposers for 2.5D and 3D semiconductors. "The ...
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Mike Cowan's mathematical forecasting LRA model for the semiconductor industry is saying that the market will grow 6.6% this year to $310.7 billion. Cowan reckons Q1 shipments will be $73.7 billion and Q2 will ship $75.7 billion making a ...
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After experiencing a slowdown in 2012, the global semiconductor market is set for growth. The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics predicts the global semiconductor market to grow by 4.5% in 2013 after declining 3.2 percent in 2012. The ...
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AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIX; NASDAQ: AIXG) a leading provider of deposition equipment to the global semiconductor industry announced that Paul Hyland, AIXTRON SE’s President and CEO will leave the Company by mutual agreement with effect as ...
Digi-Key has signed two new supplier franchises military chip specialist Holt Integrated Circuits and cognitive memory supplier, CogniMem. CogniMem has developed a neural network architecture to resemble the synapses of the human ...
IDG News Service - Increased sales of electronics and new forms of computing devices will drive the worldwide semiconductor market to growth this year after a slowdown in 2012, the nonprofit organization World Semiconductor Trade Statistics ...
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The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has appointed three new members to its Board of Directors. They are David Baillie, chief executive officer, CamSemi, Jeff Waters, senior vice president and general manager, Altera and Dr. Albert ...
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The scale of global semiconductor sales in 2012 down 3% compared with 2011, to 297.6 billion dollars. Among them South Korea's Samsung Electronics purchases increased 28.9% year-on-year, reached 23.9 billion dollars to be the global sales ...