Fig. 1: Silicon wafer revenue forecast (Feb. 2022 update). Silicon wafer revenues grew 14.5% in 2021, finally reaching the same levels they were at in 2007. Source: Techcet. But now, with capacity ...

Last month, ON Semiconductor and Globalfoundries announced a $430 million agreement to transfer ownership of Globalfoundries 300mm Fab 10 in East Fishkill, NY. While the deal is still pending ...

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In 2008, 300mm wafers took over as the industry's primary wafer size in terms of total surface area used. The number of 300mm wafer fabrication facilities in operation continues to grow and is ...

There are nine 300mm wafer fabs scheduled to open in 2019 (five of them located in China) following seven that opened in 2018. Nine new fabs in 2019 would be the most opened in a single year since ...

“Initially, we called peak capacity at 28nm [to be] 330,000 wafer starts a month. Then it was 400,000, then it was 450,000, and now it’s 500,000 wafer starts a month.” Cost-volume trade off. One of ...

The era of 300mm is finally here, and this time, the industry really means it. Capital equipment CEOs and executives taking part in Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International's (SEMI) recent ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Isonics jumped 11.6% to $3.46 early Wednesday on Instinet volume of 63,321. The move comes after the company said it completed the first sales of its 300 ...

A few years ago, multiple high-end companies were backing the idea of moving from 300mm to 450mm silicon wafers. Historically, moving to larger wafers was a critical way that foundries and fabs ...

The key is to reduce lot size. There are proposals to cut this from the current 25 wafers to two wafers, or even single wafer lots; but they entail an order-of-magnitude increase in the volume of ...