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With the industry still recovering from the recession, design tool and methodology innovation is continuing to shift to tight collaboration between semiconductor companies, EDA vendors, and foundries.
Lack of customer demand has put a deal inked last year on hiatus between the two chip industry giants that was to have covered the porting by the Santa Clara, Calif-based chipmaker of its Atom processor CPU cores to the Taiwanese foundry's technology platform, contrasting with TSMC's announcement last month that it was speeding construction of new fabs and capacity expansions at existing fabs to meet what it described as "urgent recent increases in customer demand."
Thanks to strong demand for PCs combined with DRAM prices that are on the rise, DRAM revenue is expected to grow more than 55% this year, the market research company said.
Spending by the memory and foundry markets, along with the advancement to new technology nodes will drive the semiconductor equipment segment in the first half of this year with quarterly growth slowing slightly in the second half before capacity additions start ramping up the equipment industry again going into 2011, the market research company said.
With a DRAM market expected to increase 74% this year, market researchers at IC Insights now believe that the worldwide IC market will jump 27% in 2010 to $253 billion – exceeding the previous high of $234 billion reached in 2007 – and an additional 15% in 2011 to $290 billion. The market research company said too that if the January DRAM market stayed flat for the next 11 months, the 2010/2009 DRAM market would still register 61% growth.
