The shift from planar SoCs to 3D-ICs and advanced packages requires much thinner wafers in order to improve performance and reduce power, reducing the distance that signals need to travel and the ...

Impact Estimation of the Myanmar Earthquake on the Wafer Segment and the Outlook for the Upstream PV Market in April. As the earthquake occurred at the month-end of March, based on the current SMM ...

90% of closures were ≤200mm wafer fabs; greatest number of closures in Japan. February 28, 2019 -- The IC industry has been on a mission to pare down older capacity (i.e., ≤200mm wafers) in order to ...

A breakthrough in next-generation semiconductor technology has been announced by Chinese researchers, with the creation of the world’s largest N-polar gallium nitride (GaN) wafer, at eight ...

MILPITAS, Calif. — February 7, 2024 — Worldwide silicon wafer shipments in 2023 decreased 14.3% to 12,602 million square inches while wafer revenue contracted 10.9% to $12.3 billion over the same ...