Semiconductor WEEK: An overview of results and conclusions from recent reports at TechInsights.

Customers Are Clamoring for More Capacity Andrea Lati The Chip Insider® Order activity for semiconductor equipment continued to heat up, jumping past 114 degrees SOC Computing and Memory added another point, hitting fresh new highs for the year With the backlog at an all-time-high, Equipment

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