Investments
TechInsights continues to make substantial investments to drive value and quality for all our customers.
TechInsights has invested in cutting-edge solutions that expand our capabilities and enhance our customers’ experience. In today's dynamic business landscape, companies that consistently invest in innovation, infrastructure, and talent are not only ensuring their own success, but also creating a mutually beneficial situation for their customers.
Leveraging AI to quickly deliver trusted semiconductor insights that are easy to understand
Using TechInsights’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Connected Data system, Insightful Chat is the gateway to quickly leverage the breadth and depth of semiconductor intelligence in the Platform. Getting answers to tough questions impacting competitiveness, profitability, and innovation has never been so easy.
This is just the start of applying the power of AI and Connected Data to the most extensive collection of semiconductor content, quickly providing answers tailored to your priorities. Learn more and try Insightful Chat to discover how easy it is to unlock the value of semiconductor intelligence.
New Products
TechInsights is proud to introduce an array of new product innovations, each serving to significantly diversify and enrich our company's already extensive expertise and capabilities.
New Capabilities
We continue to invest in R&D to bring new capabilities which enable us to go deeper, move faster, and connect the dots.
New Features and Platform Enhancements
A high-level summary of key new features/platform enhancements and their value for prospects and customers.
TechInsights is proud to introduce an array of new product innovations, each serving to significantly diversify and enrich our company's already extensive expertise and capabilities.
Manufacturing Carbon Module
TechInsights' new Carbon Module empowers chip manufacturers in their sustainability efforts by revealing emission sources and electricity consumption.
Packaging+ Carbon Module
Enables customers to track the carbon impact of an integrated circuit from cradle-to-gate. Users can run scenarios selecting from more than 20,000 consumer integrated circuits from TechInsight’s Teardown database, facilitating reporting, as well as benchmarking and competitive analysis.
Enterprise Datacenter Teardown
TechInsights has broadened its Teardown analysis to now include equipment in enterprise datacenters.
Component Price Analyzer
This is a powerful tool which enables customers to identify opportunities for cost reduction and to understand lead times and supply constraints.
We continue to invest in R&D to bring new capabilities which enable us to go deeper, move faster, and connect the dots.
Delivering iterative versions of content and images, faster
We have developed a new process to issue releases of images, analysis, and insight in Reverse Engineering reports, delivering content to our customers with speed.
Back Catalog
Beyond the new capabilities and products that we are creating, we continue to compile the most comprehensive back catalog of technical analysis, images, and market coverage.
Reverse Engineering preparing for 2nm process nodes
Among the investments that we have recently made are the Talos F200X G2 TEM and a Raith CHIPSCANNER. Our investments in R&D have enabled us to be the trusted source to verify:
- SMIC’s 7nm (N+1) process in the MinerVa Bitcoin Miner SoC
- SMIC’s 7nm (N+2) process in the HiSilicon Kiran 9000s processor, which powers the Huawei Mate 60 Pro
- TSMC’s 3nm process in Apple’s A17 Pro processor, which powers the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
- Micron’s D1b LPDDR5 16 Gb DRAM chip in the iPhone 15 Pro
Updated State-of-the-art Lab: Microelectronics Reverse Engineering and Market Analysis
Gain access to the leaders in microelectronics reverse engineering and market analysis. From chip identification down to structural analysis at the atomic level, TechInsights uses proprietary sampling and imaging tools in our state-of-the-art lab. This allows our expert team of engineers, scientists and technologists to uncover the insights our customers demand, to help them make informed decisions about their products, design roadmaps, and longer-term technology investment decisions.
Market Analysis
We have expanded our market analysis coverage through acquisition of best-in-class firms such as VLSI, Strategy Analytics, Linley Group, McClean Report, and IC Knowledge. Individually, these companies provided unique and valuable data and insights. Building upon these great businesses we are now launching the most robust end-to-end coverage of the full Semiconductor Value Chain connecting technical verticals such as logic, memory, image sensors, power, and RF with industry verticals such as Datacenter, Mobile, Compute, AI, and Consumer Electronics.
Teardown Analysis Speed and Transparency
We have increased the speed by which our Teardown analysis is delivered up to 4 weeks faster than before and increased visibility to customers by expanding our checkpoints from 2 to 6.
Expanding our team of experts
In addition to our Senior Fellows including Dr. Jeongdong Choe, Dan Hutcheson, Scotten Jones, and Linley Gwennap, we have recruited experts such as Dr. Dan McGrath, Dr. Owen Rogers, Mike Howard, Walt Coon, Carrie MacGillivray, and Brett Azuma. This is in addition to the more than 1000 years of combined experience in our engineering team and hundreds of years in combined analyst experience.
TechInsights is the authoritative information platform for the semiconductor industry. Over 650 companies and 125,000 users access the TechInsights Platform, the world's largest vertically integrated collection of unmatched reverse engineering, teardown, and market analysis in the semiconductor industry.
This collection includes detailed circuit analysis, imagery, semiconductor process flows, device teardowns, illustrations, costing and pricing information, forecasts, market analysis, and expert commentary, as well as in-platform tools that use the underlying data to provide self-serve visualizations for discovering new insights.
TechInsights’ Platform enhancements are focused on improving:
- Discoverability – making it easier to discover and find content
- Usability – ensuring intuitive access and getting value faster
- Scalability – maintaining high performance as content volumes and users increase
Examples of some notable Platform enhancements are below – more to come.
Discoverability
Insightful Chat
Using TechInsights’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Connected Data system, Insightful Chat is the gateway to quickly leverage the breadth and depth of semiconductor intelligence in the Platform. Getting answers to tough questions impacting competitiveness, profitability, and innovation has never been so easy. Insightful Chat is also available on the TechInsights mobile app (available for iOS and Android). Watch the video to learn more.
Stay informed on the latest semiconductor intelligence
With the breadth and depth of content in the TechInsights Platform, it can be challenging to stay informed on the latest semiconductor intelligence. The TechInsights subscription digest is an easy-to-read summary of key content highlights, making it easier to stay informed. The subscription digest is available for all users and includes both free and subscriber-only (entitled) content. Please note that only subscribers can access entitled content. Check your digest settings if you’re an existing user, or sign up for a free account.
Daily Insights
Keep up with key events in the semiconductor industry with up-to-the-minute market and technical commentary that provides context and perspective.
Future-proof decisions with Progress Tracker and Upcoming Analysis
Get visibility into upcoming innovative or disruptive technology identified by our experts to support planning and strategic efforts. You can also choose to be notified when it is published in the Platform, making it easier to be informed of the latest findings.
Coverage areas include Automotive, Battery, Image Sensor, IoT Connectivity SoC, Logic, Memory (NAND, DRAM, Embedded and Emerging), Mobile RF, Power Semiconductor (Power, PMIC), Teardown, Market Analysis, and technologies from China. Progress Tracker provides an overall view across all coverage areas, whereas Upcoming Analysis is coverage area-specific.
Speed up research with Company Profiles
Whether it’s for competitive research or investigating potential partnerships, quickly get the holistic perspective on an expanded list of companies (in addition to featured capital equipment manufacturers and foundries) that includes technical, market, and forecasting analyses. A view of a company’s future technologies are also provided on Company Profiles.
Usability
Home page - the launch pad to explore content
Get a more customized view of content across the TechInsights Platform on the home page. In addition to the latest content, easily access up-to-the-minute commentary on events impacting the semiconductor industry (Daily Insights), see popular content in the peer community (Trending Content), get visibility into future content (Analysis in Progress), and more.
Data visualizations for faster insights
Easily leverage the underlying data in the Platform for custom visualizations that answer tough questions. Coverage areas include Compute technical analyses (e.g., digital floorplan, process, process flow analysis, packaging, SoC design, and transistor characterization), semiconductor market analysis (e.g., AI, automotive, datacenters/cloud, chiplets, and more), semiconductor end market forecast and rrends, manufacturing analysis market share, automotive, mobile, and consumer electronics.
TechInsights is the authoritative information platform for the semiconductor industry.
Discover the power and potential of the TechInsights Platform and see why our customers include the most successful technology companies. With the world’s largest vertically integrated collection of unmatched reverse engineering, teardown, and market analysis in the semiconductor industry, customers rely on our analyses to make informed business, design, and product decisions faster and with greater confidence.
See the breadth of content in the TechInsights Platform.
We make these investments to ensure that you have the most technically advanced, best quality, and most comprehensive data and insights about the full Semiconductor value chain.
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