Huge ramps in semiconductor equipment purchases by leading foundries and IDMs in July and August will result in the equipment market ending 2009 dropping 40% instead of 46% previously...
Because of the downturn in the overall economy in 2009, semiconductor capacity utilization - the number of semiconductors made as a ratio to the plant (fab) capacity - dropped precipitously...
The MEMS device market is faring much better than the overall semiconductor industry, but the MEMS processing equipment market is suffering the same fate as the semiconductor equipment...
Rises in the book-to-bill ratio for the North America and Japan semiconductor equipment sectors is giving optimism the industry downturn has bottomed out, but The Information Network...
China's cross-strait investment in Taiwan will help the island to survive the global crisis and at the same time help fix its own IC market, according to The Information Network.
LG Micron vaulted to the lead on the heals of LG Display's growth, according to The Information Network. LG Micron took the lead in the TFT-LCD photomask market with a 29.3% share,...
The semiconductor metrology/inspection equipment (MIE) market finally outperformed the rest of the overall semiconductor front-end wafer processing equipment market for the first...
The planned transition to 450mm diameter silicon wafers for semiconductor production will be disastrous for the equipment industry, The Information Network said.
Netbook manufacturers are adding bells and whistles to their products that are blurring the lines between a netbook and a notebook, but the problem is the netbook market is migrating...
Although global solar panel production went up 48% worldwide to 5.6 gigawatts (GW) in 2008, market reserach firm The Information Network laments that the US is lagging in the market...
On March 2, Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced they had reached an agreement to collaborate on technology platform, IP infrastructure, and system-on-chip...
The semiconductor equipment market will continue to be on a downward slope at least through the end of May, according to a recent report published by The Information Network.