Chip Market May Contract Again
Dylan McGrath, EETimes
3/21/2016 00:01 AM EDT
At least one market watcher thinks the semiconductor industry will decline slightly for the second straight year for the second time in its history.
A least one semiconductor industry market watcher is now predicting contraction for the year, based on macroeconomic sluggishness, weak memory pricing and lack of a “killer app” to drive chip consumption.
Semico Research Corp. recently revised its forecast for 2016 semiconductor sales. The Phoenix-based market research firm now sees thee industry contracting slightly this year, by about one-third of a percent. Late last year Semico was projecting industry revenue would increase this year by 3-4%.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- JPEG XL Encoder
- LPDDR6/5X/5 PHY V2 - Intel 18A-P
- ML-KEM Key Encapsulation & ML-DSA Digital Signature Engine
- MIPI SoundWire I3S Peripheral IP
- ML-DSA Digital Signature Engine
Related News
- Xiphera Partners with IPro for the Israeli Chip Design Market
- lowRISC and SCI Semiconductor Release Sunburst Chip Repository for Secure Microcontroller Development
- 2024 Global Semiconductor Materials Market Posts $67.5 Billion in Revenue
- VSORA Raises $46 Million to Bring World’s Most Powerful AI Inference Chip to Market
Latest News
- Are Synopsys Layoffs a Harbinger of the AI-Assisted Design Era?
- EnSilica to develop quantum-resilient secure processor chip for critical national infrastructure applications backed by £5m UK Government ‘Contract for Innovation’
- CAST Introduces JPEG XL Encoder IP Core for High- Quality, On-Camera Still-Image Compression
- PGC Strengthens Cloud and AI ASIC Acceleration with Synopsys’ Next-Generation Interface and Memory IP on Advanced Nodes
- IntelPro Licenses Ceva Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 IPs to Launch AIoT Matter-Ready SoCs