Excess inventory causing concerns and upturn in orders not yet realized San Diego, CA, June 20, 2024: TECHCET — the advisory firm providing materials market information for semiconductor supply chain resilience — previously forecasting a 6% increase for Silicon Wafers in 2024, is now seeing a hurdle to growth. “Excess inventory of silicon wafers held by chip makers over the past 9 months has been surprising everyone,” stated Lita…
Wafer shipments expected to pick up in late 2024 San Diego, CA, February 29, 2024: TECHCET — the advisory firm providing materials market & supply chain information for the semiconductor industry — is forecasting a 5% increase in total wafer area shipments in 2024, with an additional jump of 7% in 2025. Through the 2023-2028 forecast period, total wafer shipments are forecasted to grow at a >4% CAGR as…
Revenues for SOI Wafers remain stable, with high growth forecasted ahead San Diego, CA, July 20, 2023: TECHCET — the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information on semiconductor supply chains — is forecasting a -7% decline for Total Silicon Wafer shipments for the 2023 year due to overall slowdowns in the semiconductor industry. These slowdowns in combination with wafer inventory build has reduced strains on wafer…
Investments in increased capacity not expected to alleviate strain until 2024-2025 San Diego, CA, January 10, 2023: TECHCET—the advisory firm providing business and technology information on the semiconductor materials supply chain — has announced that the Silicon Wafer market is forecasted to hit a downturn that will result in a decline of at most -2% in 2023. This market decline comes after Silicon Wafer shipments reached an all-time high…
New production expansions needed, but will not take effect until 2024 San Diego, CA, August 16, 2022: TECHCET—the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information— announced the Silicon Wafer market for semiconductor applications, including SOI wafers, will grow to US$16 billion in 2022, about 12% above the US$14.2 billion recorded in 2021. Wafer shipments are expected to reach a record, with a forecasted 6% growth to 15.1…
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