Order Activity Stayed Hot Amid Supply Chain Woes

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.
01Feb

Mobileye EyeQ Ultra Aims for Level 4

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.
01Feb

Ceva Tackles Unstructured Sparsity

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.
01Feb

Discrete GPUs Cut Power for Laptops

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.
01Feb

Inventory: Loose or Tight? Equipment Shortages.

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
28Jan

IC Supply/Demand indices tighten

IC Supply/Demand indices tighten G. Dan Hutcheson Semiconductor Analytics Semiconductor sales continue to explode out of the normal Christmas roll-over with double-digit W/W and Y/Y growth, as IC Supply/Demand tightened up. The IC weather warmed 1°F last week. Zooming in on Logic this week, the 13
26Jan