TSMC enables business growth through effective and collaborative innovation

While speaking on ‘Enabling business growth through effective and collaborative innovation’, at the recently held International Electronics Forum (IEF) 2010 in Dresden, Germany, Dr. Jack Sun, CTO and vice president, R&D, TSMC said that TSMC leads and invests heavily in competitive, energy efficient, and eco-friendly technologies to enable product innovation, such as CMOS platform scaling (40/28/20nm/FinFET,

GlobalFoundries enabling the next wave of ‘foundry’ innovation

According to Mojy Chian, Senior Vice President, Design Enablement, GlobalFoundries, continued innovation in the foundry business demands a new approach. He was speaking at the recently held International Electronics  Forum (IEF) 2010 organized by Future Horizons in Dresden, Germany. GlobalFoundries is bringing a highly integrated model to foundry, which involves the extension of customer operations, early customer-foundry

New frontiers in MEMS around the human body

At the recently held International Electronics Forum (IEF) 2010, organized by Future Horizons in Dresden, Germany, Benedetto Vigna, Group Vice President and General Manager, MEMS, Sensors and High Performance Analog Division, STMicroelectronics, made a wonderful presentation on how MEMS can be useful for the human body, especially from the medical electronics point of view. MEMS (microelectromechanical

Thrive or survive…going for gold in post-recession recovery: Malcolm Penn @ IEF2010, Dresden

According to Malcom Penn, chairman and CEO, Future Horizons, 2010 — a barnstroming year — will likely see the global semiconductor industry grow by 31+ percent. He was delivering the company’s forecast at the ongoing 19th International Electronics Forum (IEF) 2010 in Dresden, Germany, which ends here tomorrow. He said it would take a disaster

What’s happening with the global semiconductor industry?

This is turning out to be quite a week in the global semiconductor industry! First, Intel reported a record Q1, with first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion. It reported operating income of $3.4 billion and net income of $2.4 billion. Great stuff! Next, at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China, it outlined plans for a new

Global semicon trends and spotlight: UWB and PV developments

Here are the excerpts from the Global Semiconductor Monthly Report, March 2010, provided by Malcolm Penn, chairman, founder and CEO of Future Horizons. This post covers market trends and semicon developments. Those interested to know more may contact Future Horizons. Market trends – UWB Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a low power, short-range radio technology that uses

Global semicon industry update Mar. ’10: Time for a reality check…pessimism has swung too far, says Future Horizons

January’s WSTS results continued to follow the underlying industry recovery trend, with ICs sales up 4.8 percent versus December (on a five-week month adjusted basis). They were also up 73.7 percent versus January 2009, a relatively meaningless number other than to recall just how bad things were this time last year. The real significance of

Global semicon industry update: 30 percent growth now on radar for 2010, says Future Horizons

Here are the excerpts from the Global Semiconductor Monthly Report, January 2010, provided by Malcolm Penn, chairman, founder and CEO of Future Horizons. There are a lot of charts associated with this report. The report also covers market trends. Those interested to know more may contact Future Horizons. November’s IC sales continued the year-end rally,

Round-up 2009: Best of semiconductors

Right folks! We’ve now come down to the last day of what has been one of the worst years, or the worst year ever, in the history of the global semiconductor industry! After a very tough first half of 2009, things did start looking up in the second half, and that trend has continued right up

Nov. 09 update: -10 percent growth in 2009, +22 percent minimum for 2010, says Future Horizons

Here are the excerpts from the Global Semiconductor Monthly Report, November 2009, provided by Malcolm Penn, chairman, founder and CEO of Future Horizons. There are a lot of charts associated with this report. Those interested to know more may contact Future Horizons. As a result of September’s sales exceeding the high end of even our