Wednesday, November 25th 2020
Wafer Prices Rising by Up to 40% in 2021: Report
Semiconductor foundries across the board are preparing to raise price quotes of their 8-inch wafers from 2021. A DigiTimes report sheds light on various foundry companies, including UMC (United Microelectronics), Global Foundries, and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have raised their 8-inch foundry quotes by 10-15% in Q4-2020, with the quotes set to rise by another 20-40% in 2021. Foundries don't tend to use flat pricing, and instead rely on quotes specific to the size and design requirements of an order (by a fabless chip designer).
The foundry industry operates broadly on silicon fabrication nodes and wafer sizes. This article by Telescope Magazine provides insights into the typical use-cases for each wafer size. Although pertaining strictly to pricing of 8-inch (200 mm) wafers, an impending price-rise across the semiconductor industry can be extrapolated on the basis on significant labor cost increases. TSMC is planning to implement a 20% pay hike for its personnel in 2021.
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DigiTimes
The foundry industry operates broadly on silicon fabrication nodes and wafer sizes. This article by Telescope Magazine provides insights into the typical use-cases for each wafer size. Although pertaining strictly to pricing of 8-inch (200 mm) wafers, an impending price-rise across the semiconductor industry can be extrapolated on the basis on significant labor cost increases. TSMC is planning to implement a 20% pay hike for its personnel in 2021.
31 Comments on Wafer Prices Rising by Up to 40% in 2021: Report
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You are referencing an analogue computer, which has about as much in common with modern computers as an abacus.
I should not have to specify on a tech forum where the focus is on digital computers that I was in fact speaking of very subject matter that is featured here. An argument of semantics that ignores basic context is just part of commenting on the internet though, always has to be that one guy "well technically....".Is this a list to prove that capitalism works? If so, that's a very small list. It would be easy to find more failures (stock market crash, injustices of the industrial revolution, trust and monopolies in the US, CEO vs worker wage gap, ect) nor can any one of those be directly attributed to capitalism. Every company you listed is a US company, which does not have a purely capitalistic economy. The US has a mixed economy.
Just as an example, it could easily be argued that the public school system gives workers a basic skill set. If the US did not have a school system, companies like Amazon would have never been able to get enough skilled employees for their company. After all companies are not created in a vacuum. Even the word's most enterprising person won't get anywhere if the country their company in doesn't have sufficient infrastructure, enough quality employees, access to basic utilities like power and water, and the proper regulatory frame work to protect their business (from petty theft to protection of IP). All of these resources and system are provided by distinctly non-capitalistic systems. People sure do champion capitalism as the reason for the US's economic power but in reality the massive socialist programs instituted by FDR and public works programs played a huge role. I would not point to any single thing and say that was the sole reason, economies are not anywhere near that simple.
I digress, this is getting completely off topic and I will not reply to a comment in this vein again.
But let's not stop there. Your Defense department is one the biggest innovators of all time. Government. NASA... government.
Remind me, where did ASML come from exactly?
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Oh yeah... 'socialist' Netherlands... even our right wing is not quite as capitalist as the leftiest left in the US.
Try again - or perhaps adjust your views a bit.
Thanks you for that insight into your character.
Its a forum, you read things you won't agree with. If you want a monologue... start a blog.
Its funny how you combine hatred for Americans with a dislike for the extremes of capitalism, because that is what the post was really about in response to your celebratory post about self-made men. I never put those two together like you did in your mind. Note that even within your own borders there is a little over half the country that voted in FAVOR of public healthcare for everyone, for example. Pretty 'socialist' ? Or at least not extreme capitalist, of nature. They are hating themselves now, going by your logic.
Its good for cultures to reflect on what they're doing and have done. The Dutch culture is a bit older than the American one, and we've had our moments of reflection too. We reflected on 'colonization' for example, we've had a Golden Age (VOC, google it) where we sailed the world over, a global (economical) influence much like the US today and committing similar atrocities in foreign places. We've had our revolutions... separation of church and state is another such example. There are cultures that haven't quite figured that out either. Lots of Islamic ones notably. Is that disapproving, or just an observation? In my mind it is the latter, and it is an important fact to consider as it defines a culture, and its people. In that way we can learn a thing or two about our own identity, too.
This is not criticism. Its a chance to reflect. What am I attacking, really? You? Your way of life? I'm really not, and neither are your fellow citizens who are of a different opinion as yourself. This is exactly what four years of your last administration has fostered: the inability to engage in normal dialogue. Are you joining that idiot now or can you rise above it?