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Chinese semiconductor companies are once again quickly making their presence known in the power semiconductor market, particularly in the fields of MOSFET, IGBT, and SiC. Among various types of power ICs and power devices, MOSFET and IGBT-based voltage-controlled switching devices have become the...
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DRAM Spot Market: SpecTek, a subsidiary of Micron, has slightly increased the prices of its products in the spot market. Additionally, sellers have indicated that they will not slash prices further for low-priced chips. As a result, the momentum of trading activities has stagnated. Like...
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The SiC market has been very active lately, with constant news coming from device suppliers and car makers. And there seems to be an ongoing tug-of-war between supply and demand. Toshiba announced in April the groundbreaking of its power semiconductor fab for SiC in Ishikawa Prefecture, with the ...
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Amid a prolonged market downturn and persistent weakness in end demand, the world's top three memory chipmakers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron - have implemented production cuts in an effort to control the continuing decline in memory prices through supply management. Recently, news emerged in the ...
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In the post-Moore's Law era, chiplet design has been burgeoning as the mainstream architecture. With the widespread adoption of EUV technology by foundries on process nodes of 5nm and below, the cost of semiconductor fabrication has skyrocketed. The cost of the 5nm process has grown by almost 1x ...