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March 15, 2007[POV: Point Of View] Consolidation Strikes The ASIC Market As Revenues Grow
Relatively fragmented in the 1990s, the ASIC market now comprises a handful of top-tier providers, a generally struggling middle tier, and smaller companies consisting of startups and established application specialists. This consolidation will continue, as application-focused vendors pick up market share at the expense of vendors stuck in an older model where raw technology was king and could be used to address a wide spectrum of applications. Those days are long past, and...
February 16, 2006[TechView: The Industry] Nascent 3D Chip Market Likely To Hit $1.3 Billion By 2010
Semiconductors have always lived in a two-dimensional world. But with the rising use of three-dimensional (3D) stacking technology, chips are making a foray into the third dimension. Today's systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) often contain a diverse range of functions, each served best by a different process technology. As silicon moves to 90-nm and smaller geometries, the cost of adding embedded capabilities like analog or flash memory to a logicbased process becomes a burden. The...
April 28, 2005[TechView: The Industry] IC Suppliers Must Add "Lower Power" To The "Smaller, Faster, Cheaper" Mantra
"Smaller, faster, cheaper" has been the traditional IC market refrain. But recently, the tune has changed. Today's chips are adequately small and fast for many electronic systems, even though they may never be cheap enough for purchasing managers or consumers. Yet as a direct and indirect factor impacting system cost, performance, and usability, power consumption has emerged as one of the major challenges surrounding the design and use of core...
