150mm and 200mm wafer fabs accounted for two-thirds of total closures. March 01, 2018 -- Since the global economic recession of 2008-2009, the IC industry has been on a mission to pare down older ...

Mixing financial data with manufacturing analytics can boost efficiency, but there are still pockets of resistance.

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These factors reduce the overall number of wafers an IC manufacturer can process in a given time, and also raise production costs per chip. Extreme ultraviolet lithography can achieve these ...

the industry is very curious about the wafer pricing that IC design companies will secure for 2025. Recent earnings... Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in ...

From 2016 to 2018, silicon wafer makers saw booming demand, causing tight supply and high prices for wafers. In 2019, though, the IC market is slowing, which impacts the silicon wafer industry on ...