Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has captured nearly 70 percent share of global smartphone chipset market in Q1, followed by Samsung Foundry at 30 percent market share, according to Counterpoint Research. TSMC captured the market from the complete System-on-Chip (SoC) to discrete A...
Digging deeper into the report, 3-nanometer technology contributed 6 percent of wafer revenue, 5-nanometer tech 37 percent, and 7-nanometer 16 percent. Strong demand for the 3-nanometer technology is expected to provide stable support for the company's revenue, with AI poised to be another sig...
Design.- Annual growth rates in the cost of semiconductor fabrication facilities (eleven percent) and design costs per chip (24 percent) are faster than those of the semiconductor market (seven percent)[3]. And the approximate number of semiconductor R&D workers has been increasing seven percent ...
At this time, we would like to expand our original definition of foundry industry to Foundry 2.0, which also includes packaging, testing, mask making, and others and all IDM, excluding memory manufacturing. We believe this new definition better reflects TSMC's expanding addressable market ...
In August last year, TSMC announced it would set up ESMC in partnership with Robert Bosch LTD, Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors, in which the Taiwanese partner would hold a 70 percent stake, while the three foreign partners would hold the remaining 30 percent. The joint venture...
April 25, 2018 -- Research included in the recently released 50-page April Update to the 2018 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report shows that in 2017, the top eight major foundry leaders (i.e., sales of ≥$1.0 billion) held 88% of the $62.3 billion worldwide foundry market (Figure...
Some market participants have questioned the long-term resilience of the artificial intelligence boom and the return on increasing investments in the technology sector — while Young Liu, CEO and chairman of key Apple supplier Foxconn, told CNBC last week that the AI frenzy "still has ...
Germany's ESMC plans to start constructing the advanced semiconductor fab in the second half of 2024 while chip production will only commence later in 2027. Meanwhile, the entire European Chips Act aims to double the EU's chip making market share from 10 percent to 20 percent by 2030. ...
s qualification tests. TSMC claims that the 28 nm LP process is the low cost and fast time to market choice, ideal for low standby power applications such as cellular baseband. The process apparently provides a 20 percent speed improvement over the 40 nm LP process at the same leakage per ...
which means it is in a tight water resource battle with local residents and Intel, which is also building nearby. TSMC's US plant is forecasted to contribute only 10 percent of the firm's revenue, according to one US investor, adding that his company is not betting on TSMC's plant in ...