SAN JOSE — The chip industry's IC wafer fab utilization rate plunged to 72.7% of installed capacity in the second quarter from 83.8% in Q1 of this year, according to new statistics release by the ...

IC testing houses Ardentec, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics have all seen their fab utilization rates pick up slightly in the third quarter, despite the gloomy outlook for the ...

With their bigger peers transitioning to 12-inch wafer manufacturing, Taiwan-based power management IC (PWM IC) suppliers expect more 8-inch fab capacities to be available to satisfy their demand next ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — When listening to the presentations at SEMI's Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) here this week, the IC and fab tool industries are expected to see a boom year in 2010. Happy ...

Reliance on existing wafer sizes increases as outlook for 450mm wafers fades. December 16, 2016 -- IC Insights has just released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2017-2021—Detailed Analysis and Forecast ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced an expansion of its Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) software platform at ...

There was a time when creating a new IC was a very expensive proposition. While it still isn’t pocket change, custom chips are within reach of sophisticated experimenters and groups. As evidence, look ...

Nanoident Technologies claims to have opened the world’s first manufacturing facility for printed semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices. Located in Linz, Austria, the fab, called OFAB is fitted ...

IC production in China represented 15.3% of its $155 billion IC market in 2018, up from 12.6% five years earlier in 2013, says IC Insights, which forecasts that this share will increase by 5.2 ...

China-based IC production is forecast to exhibit a very strong 2012-2017 CAGR of 17.6%. However, considering that China-based IC production was only about $8.9 billion in 2012, this growth will come ...