IC Supply/Demand Indices Loosened G. Dan Hutcheson Semiconductor Analytics Semiconductor sales continued to explode out of the normal Christmas lull, ending January near 2021's peaks. The IC weather cooled 2°F last week. Semiconductor Sales growth continued to rise above the 20% Y/Y bar. This is

Semiconductor sales continued to explode out of the normal Christmas lull, ending January near 2021's peaks. The IC weather cooled 2°F last week.

This analysis allowed us to compare or discover new manufacturers, sub-assemblies, and ICs we have found in the consumer device market with components and brands found in the business-focused ThinkSmart Hub.

Order Activity Stayed Hot Amid Supply Chain Woes Andrea Lati The Chip Insider® Order activity for semiconductor equipment held steady at a sizzling 115 degrees Even though the visibility and demand for equipment suppliers is the best it's ever been, persisting shortages and supply chain constraints

Informing the media, public, and investors about semiconductor manufacturing trends and semiconductor industry outlook in wafer fab equipment, ATE, and assembly tools throughout the week with data and summaries from VLSI's latest reports and data analytic programs.

The ADAS-processor leader is developing a single-chip solution for self-driving cars, along with its own lidar and radars. By 2025, Mobileye hopes its system will reduce the car buyer’s add-on cost to just $10,000.

NeuPro-M, a licensable deep-learning accelerator, offers up to 16x faster inferencing than the previous generation thanks to its new architecture, Winograd modifications, and unstructured-sparsity engines.

Low-cost laptops get a graphics boost from AMD and Nvidia, which now offer their leading GPU architectures in low-power products that increase gaming frame rates and enable hardware ray tracing.

Inventory: Loose or Tight? Equipment Shortages. G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® Inventory: Loose or Tight? We were recently asked about the TCI Graphics IC Inventory data, after the WSJ published comments from the US Department of Commerce that their surveys show as little as 5 days lead times on