While prospects for the global semiconductor market look bright for this year and next, it isn’t great news for the European semiconductor companies says Future Horizons CEO Malcolm Penn. "For the first time in the history of the ...
Tags: Europeans, Semiconductor, Electrical
The semiconductor industry is becoming single-sourced as companies find it economically impossible to use multiple fabs for the same chip design, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons, tells SEMI’s ISS 2013 meeting in Stresa on Lake ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip design, SRAM level
Samsung has added another $100m to its $1bn venture capital Catalyst Fund. The $100m will go to funding a Strategy and Innovation Centre (SSIC) in Sand Hills Road – Mecca for Californian VCs – originally announced by ...
Samsung is doing to Apple in tablets what it did to them in smartphones. According to analysts IDC, Samsung’s Q4 market share in tablets was 15% and Apple’s was 44%. Last year Samsung’s share was 7.3% and Apple’s ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, tablets, smartphone
The semiconductor market will grow 7.9% this year, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons, told IFS2013 in London this morning. However Penn added: “Last year I forecast 8% growth, and I said that was a safe bet and it turned out to ...
STMicroelectronics is considering breaking itself up,reports Bloomberg.It is thought that the profitable analogue business will be split from the loss-making digital business,while the ST-Ericsson joint venture will be sold-probably to ...
Tags: STMicroelectronics, sales slump, break
14nm finfet technology will level the playing field for the fabless community by giving them a process as good as anything available in the IDM community,Mojy Chian,senior vice president for design enablement at Globalfoundries,told the ...
Tags: technology, GF, 14 nm
The European semiconductor industry is missing the point,Maria Marced,President of TSMC Europe,told Future Horizons'IEF2012 meeting in Bratislava this morning. "Europe is shifting-changing towards analogue mixed signal rather than digital ...
Tags: European, semiconductor, Change, VCA
The i2i market is a major opportunity for growth according to Samsung's Chief Strategic Officer,Young Sohn,speaking this morning at IEF 2012 organised by Future Horizons in Bratislava. "The sub-$100 computer is one of the biggest ...
Tags: i2i market, Samsung, Bratislava
The CAGR of the semiconductor market for 2011-16 will be double that of the preceding five years, says IC Insights. Memory will drive the accelerated growth rate. NAND flash is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 16.6% until 2016 and DRAM is ...
Tags: CAGR, Wireless Devices, Semiconductor, Market Conditions
The post 2000 decade was a Lost Decade for Europe's semiconductor industry,Malcolm Penn,CEO of Future Horizons,told IFS2012 yesterday."It's been quite shameful,"he said. "If the Big Three companies had stayed at the same market share that ...
Tags: Lost Decade, Europe, semiconductor
Top tools makers Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron are unenthusiastic about the possible transition to 450mm,reports the Wall Street Journal. Applied corporate vp Kirk Hassrjian told the WSJ that it would be difficult to convince ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, IFS 2012, TSMC, ASML
Globalfoundries is expected to buy IBM's semiconductor division,Mike Bryant,CTO of Future Horizons,told the IFS2012 meeting in London this morning. "We assume Golbalfoundries will buy IBM's semiconductor division and that Hynix/Micron ...
Tags: Globalfoundries, IBM, semiconductor, London
Forecasts of flat semiconductor market growth in 2012 are"totally and absolutely wrong",said Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons at IFS2012 in London this morning. The US Semiconductor Industry Association(SIA)has said there will be no ...
Renesas is going fab-lite.It is putting out its MCU production on 40nm to TSMC. Commnenting on the move,Europe's leading semiconductor analyst,Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons said:"Another small step towards global domination for ...
Tags: Europe, Renesas, MCU, TSMC, semiconductor, Future Horizons