1Q 2022 Test Equipment Outlook The Chip Insider® Semiconductor Manufacturing Advanced high-end 5nm, 3nm & beyond, Mobile, Automotive & Power, and Memory devices are expected to drive test demand, growing 19% in 2022. Test is in a long-term capital investment cycle expected to last multiple years

IC Supply/demand Tightens G. Dan Hutcheson Semiconductor Analytics Semiconductor sales continued 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 2°F last week. VLSI's IC Supply/Demand indices tightened

Qualcomm announced the QET7100 – the successor to the QET6100, which they dubbed the "world’s first announced 5G 100MHz envelope tracking solution."

Intel disclosed dozens of new Alder Lake products for both laptop and desktop PCs. The 12th Generation products offer sizable performance gains over earlier models, but often at higher prices.