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Global Fab Equipment Spending Poised to Log Three Straight Years of Record Highs

SEMI highlighted today in its quarterly World Fab Forecast report: Fueled by surging pandemic-inspired demand for electronics devices, the global semiconductor industry is on track to register a rare three consecutive years of record highs...

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 6.5% to $439 billion in 2020

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that the global semiconductor industry sales will reach $439 billion in 2020, an increase of 6.5% from the $412.3 billion in 2019. Global sales in December 2020 were $39.2 billion, an increase of 8.3 compared to December 2019 Total sales for the month increased by 10%...

Chipmakers Are Ramping Up Production to Address Semiconductor Shortage

In order to meet the growing demand during the current global chip shortage, the semiconductor industry is substantially increasing its fab capacity utilization. However, it takes time to improve semiconductor capacity utilization...

Global Computer Chip Shortage "Reaches Crisis Point"

As the global semiconductor shortage intensifies, consumers are facing rising prices and shortages of products ranging from TVs and mobile phones to cars and game consoles. Since last year, the chip shortage has been getting worse. Initially, the problem was a temporary supply delay caused by factory closures...

Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch

Samsung Electronics said it is working hard to cope with the consequences of a "serious imbalance" in global semiconductors to express its concerns about chip shortages...