The global shortage of chips has overwhelmed the production capacity of fabs. At the same time, the supply of upstream semiconductor equipment has also been in short supply. The market demand for semi

The chip shortage continues, causing a major impact on many industries. In an interview, Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, a major American semiconductor company, said that due to the strong market demand for chip

MLCC is the abbreviation of Multi-layer ceramic capacitor. Although its size is small, its capacity is large. It is often used in various circuits such as decoupling, smoothing of power supply voltage

half of 2022, and the shipment prospects in the second half of the year after the Spring Festival holiday will be more clear.

The IC market will grow 11% this year, following strong growth of 26% in 2021 and 13% in 2020, according to the latest forecast published by IC Insights.

According to the latest reports such as the Nikkei, Murata's main production base of MLCC has been infected with the new crown due to the outbreak of the new crown. The target of this outbreak of clu

One of the topics of discussion in the New Year is of course the chip shortage and the flood of cash for new semiconductor capacity. The largest chipmakers have invested more than $450 billion in new

In the middle of January, many semiconductor industry observers have made predictions about the market situation in the first quarter of the new year. On January 10, local time, TrendFroce wrote that

A few days ago, IC Insights released January's "Semiconductor Market Overview" data showing that following a rapid rebound of 25% in 2021, the global semiconductor market is expected to slow down in 2

According to institutional investigations, due to the Xi'an epidemic, Samsung's factory in Xi'an will adjust NAND flash memory production manpower and capacity utilization.

The shortage of foundry capacity continues, and major OEMs will initiate a new wave of price increases, including foundries UMC, Renesas Electronics, ADI, Toshiba, Qualcomm, Melexis, etc., have announced that they will start from 2022. Increase product prices since January.

On December 29, Samsung officially announced that due to the epidemic, it would temporarily adjust the operations of its Xi’an plant in China to protect the safety of its employees as much as possible.

On December 16, the super typhoon Rai landed in the Philippines and brought super heavy rainfall in Southeast Asia. Affected by this, floods occurred in Peninsular Malaysia and affected local port and factory operations. Dutch chip packaging equipment supplier BE Semiconductor (BESI) said that heavy rains affected its main production facility in Sha Alam, Malaysia, resulting in the suspension of the assembly of products worth about 25 million euros (approximately 179 million yuan).

As demand continues to exceed supply, global chip revenue has increased by more than 17% since mid-2021. In the third quarter, the global semiconductor industry's total revenue exceeded US$150 billion, an increase of 13.8% from the previous quarter. Analysts believe this is mainly due to strong memory sales.

Since 2020, there have been some major changes in the MUC industry. To this end, industry insiders have counted the six major events that have occurred in the MCU industry since 2020:

Renesas, NXP, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, including automotive chip inventories, have shown an upward trend. This is the extremely rare first inventory increase since 2021, which may indicate that the supply of chips in the automotive industry is improving.

The impact of the chip shortage on the home appliance industry began to appear at the end of last year. On the one hand, the chip industry chain is under pressure from stock shortages. On the other hand, with the continuous improvement of frequency conversion and intelligence of home appliances, the amount of core consumption has been increasing.

According to relevant industry reports, China's new energy vehicles are expected to reach 6-7 million in 2025, and it is estimated that China's new energy vehicle semiconductor market is expected to reach 6.28 billion-732 billion US dollars in 2025. Industry insiders also revealed that in the field of semiconductors, the demand for semiconductors in electric vehicles will increase by 5-10 compared with the demand for semiconductors in traditional vehicles.

Hyundai Motor said more than a month ago that the continuing report of the body chip shortage is unlikely to be worse than it is now. Although the automaker’s views are more positive than most people in the industry, at the beginning of last week, Mercedes recently stated that The shortage of automotive chips may continue until 2023.

Infineon CEO Ploss said at the opening ceremony of this new power semiconductor fab that chip prices are expected to rise sharply in the future, adding that semiconductor manufacturers need to pay investment costs to meet booming demand.