By Craig Addison While 2020 will be remembered as annus horribilis for many, it is set to be a record year for dealmaking in the chip industry.
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Semi Wet Chemicals US$2B Market Threatened by Localization
TECHCET announces the global market for wet chemicals needed for global semiconductor fabrication in 2021 is forecast to reach US$2 billion.
Status of the Advanced Packaging Industry
Revolutionary changes are happening in the advanced semiconductor packaging industry.
Amid COVID-19 and Trade War, China Continues to Advance Its Semiconductor Memory Industry
Amid escalating trade tensions with the West, the process of building a self-sufficient semiconductor ecosystem in China has strongly accelerated. Chinese players are starting to threaten the market’s equilibrium and could trigger profound changes in the memory business.
A View on the Logic Technology Roadmap
While chipmakers are moving ahead with technology generations, maintaining the same timeline for scaling transistors in the front-end-of-line (FEOL), contacts and interconnects in the middle- (MOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) has become challenging.
Going from Macro to Micro in Semiconductor Inspections
Macro-to-micro viewing capabilities of digital microscopes can help overcome common challenges in the inspection process.
Challenges to Replacing Hard-Disk Drives
Computational storage devices are the new must-have peripherals for intensive storage applications.
Wet Copper Deposition Materials for ICs and Packages
TECHCET announces that the global market for wet metal deposition materials including electro-chemical deposition (ECD) and plating (ECP) chemistry blends in 2020 is forecast to be US$63 million.
Professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley to be Honored for Excellence in Semiconductor Research
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) today announced the winners of the 2020 SIA-SRC University Research Awards.
DRAM Price Erosion Expected Through the End of 2020
Price jump that typically coincides with the introduction of new smartphone models in 3Q and 4Q is not expected due to disrupted buying patterns and cautious discretionary spending.
