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Lead times fell by one day in June according to analysis by the Susquehanna Financial Group. The May average lead time of 27.1 days dropped to 27 days in

The semiconductor market in 2022 is weakening, says Semiconductor Intelligence, driven by inflation, the Russian war on Ukraine, COVID-19 related shutdowns

There’s not much sense to be had out of all the various prognoses for the chip market. BMW CEO Oliver Zipse says: “We will still have to deal with a fundam

The global semiconductor market in 2021 was $555.9 billion, according to WSTS data released by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). 2021 increased

There's Virgin Orbit completing its third mission, Infineon’s 28nm Aurix automotive MCUs, a crackdown on Bitcoin mining in China, the (illusory) hopes of building up a national chip industry and predictions of a coming crash for the semiconductor industry...

A tech veteran ponders on the product that kickstarted Intel’s domination.

3 February Almost twenty European countries want a 2nm fab built in Europe. Impossible, you say? Future Horizons analyst Malcolm Penn doesn’t think so. Europe is dusting off its ambitions in advanced semiconductor manufacturing once again. After several attempts in the past, nineteen EU member states recently signed a joint declaration to collaborate on “strengthening Europe’s capacity to develop the next generation of processors and semiconductors. This includes chips and embedded system...

N JANUARY 13 TH Honda, a Japanese carmaker, said it had to shut its factory in Swindon, a town in southern England, for a while. Not because of Brexit, or workers sick with covid-19. The reason was a shortage of microchips. Other car firms are suffering, too. Volkswagen, which produces more vehicles than any other firm, has said it will make 100,000 fewer this quarter as a result. Like just about everything else these days—from banks to combine harvesters—cars cannot run without computers. ...

January 20, 2021 // By Peter Clarke A rebound in global markets and sold-out IC manufacturing capacity will drive up chip prices and shortages in 2021 says Malcom Penn of Future Horizons. Analyst Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons is predicting high prices and chip shortages in 2021 with a semiconductor capacity crunch as the market is set to grow significantly by 18 percent.  Chip supply is effectively sold out for the whole of 2021 as little new capacity will come onli...

(12/16/2020) Dorothy Twesme, retired Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau (G-E-T) English teacher and librarian, has named the Old Main Historical and Community Arts Center in Galesville in her will to receive a bequest that will fund the “Twesme Family Past and Future Horizons Award” to a graduating high school senior who writes a paper that encourages reading about the past to envision the future. The paper will recall that George Gale — who founded Galesville, Galesville University, an...