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| Editor's Note |
| Foundries making logic chips will account for most of this year's fab closures, according to the latest survey of declining semiconductor industry capacity released during the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Overall installed capacity for 2009 is expected to decline by about 3 percent, or about 15 million wafers per month. As bad as things are, the total number of fab closures in 2002 topped 60. Moreover, industry analyst Christian Gregor Dieseldorff is projecting rising fab capacity in 2010.
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More than 30 fabs to close in '09, says analyst
By the time it's all said and done, more than 30 semiconductor fabs will shut their doors this year as chip companies cut capacity in response to the downturn, according to Christian Gregor Dieseldorff, senior analyst and director of market research for the SEMI trade group.
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| Semicon West News |
Capex trends: 'Fear and cash conservation'
What's the best way to describe the overall buying patterns for fab equipment right now?
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Semicon's hot products: AMAT, EV, KLA, Rudolph
At the Semicon West trade show here, fab tool vendors rolled out a plethora of products.
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Mood at Semicon: What analysts are saying
Here's what analysts are saying on the business in general.
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| Design News |
Tensilica to power Blue Wonder's LTE designs
Design house Blue Wonder Communications (Dresden, Germany), which specializes in baseband chips and IP for mobile broadband applications such as LTE, is to use Tensilica's Xtensa dataplane processors for an LTE broadband modem design.
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Startup Oasys debuts ReaTime Designer synthesis tool
Oasys Design Systems came out of a five-year stealth mode to take the wraps off RealTime Designer, a design tool for physical RTL synthesis of 100-million-gate designs.
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Blog: GM should (still) kill the Corvette
The Corvette no longer fits into GM's strategy of producing family cars, prestige cars and Cadillacs for the wealthy.
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Analyst: Solar approaching grid parity in U.S.
By 2015, two-thirds of the U.S. will have achieved grid parity, the point at which electricity generated from photovoltaics is equal in cost or less expensive than grid power, an analyst said.
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Study: U.S. space program should align with national goals
The U.S. civil space program needs changes that would align it more closely with broader national goals in environmental, economic and strategic areas, according to a report released this week by the National Research Council.
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Researchers claim optical processing breakthrough
Researchers at IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and the University of Ghent (Belgium) are claiming a major breakthrough in optical processing and thus all optical routing.
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