Arm names Eric Hayes as EVP of operations
January 17, 2025
Arm Holdings has appointed Eric Hayes as executive vice president of Operations with immediate effect. He will lead the coordination of end-to-end execution of operational activities across multiple products and solutions and report to Arm CEO Rene Haas.
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Marvell partners with Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix on custom HBM
December 12, 2024
Marvell says it has pioneered a new custom HBM compute architecture, enabling XPUs to achieve greater compute and memory density. The company is teaming up with Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix to define and develop custom HBM solutions for next-gen XPUs.
Vietnam partners with US firms on semiconductor training
July 18, 2024
Vietnam's National Innovation Center will work with two American firms, Qorvo and Cadence Design, to train 50,000 Vietnamese semiconductor engineers by 2030.
Analyst: US chip industry could be worth $5.5trn
June 07, 2024
The combined market value of the US's top semiconductor firms has surpassed USD 5.5 trillion – making the market the world's third biggest 'economy'.
Marvell boosts its presence in Vietnam
May 21, 2024
Marvell Technology has accelerated the growth of its workforce and presence in Vietnam in the past year since the company announced plans to expand R&D, engineering and design activities in the country.
Top 10 IC design houses’ combined revenue grows 12% in 2023
May 15, 2024
In 2023, the combined revenue of the world’s top ten IC design houses reached approximately USD 167.6 billion, marking a 12% annual increase, reports TrendForce.
Kevin O’Buckley to lead Foundry Services at Intel
May 14, 2024
Stuart Pann, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Foundry Services, will retire from Intel after 35 years of service at the end of May. He will be succeeded by Kevin O’Buckley.
Marvell extends deal with TSMC on 2nm platform
March 08, 2024
Marvell Technology is collaborating with chip maker TSMC to develop the industry’s first technology platform to produce 2nm semiconductors optimised for accelerated infrastructure.
Top 10 IC design houses to see 17.8% increase in quarterly revenue in 3Q23
January 04, 2024
TrendForce reports that 3Q23 has been a historic quarter for the world’s leading IC design houses as total revenue soared 17.8% to reach a record-breaking USD 44.7 billion.
Q2 revenue for top 10 IC design houses surge 12.5%
September 21, 2023
Fueled by an AI-driven inventory stocking frenzy across the supply chain, TrendForce reveals that Q2 revenue for the top 10 global IC design powerhouses soared to USD 38.1 billion, marking a 12.5% quarterly increase.
SkyWater appoints new president and COO
September 19, 2023
US-based pure-play semiconductor foundry, SkyWater Technology, has appointed John Sakamoto as president and chief operating officer, effective September 25, 2023.
Global top ten IC design houses break even in Q1
June 20, 2023
TrendForce reports that inventory reduction in Q1 fell short of expectations and coincided with the industry’s traditional off-season, leading to overall subdued demand.
Marvell to set up semiconductor design centre in Vietnam
May 23, 2023
Marvell Technology says that it plans to establish a "world-class" design centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Once completed, the site is said to become the home to advanced semiconductor engineering.
Continued revenue declines among the top 10 IC design houses
April 25, 2023
The global economy has faced increased inflation risks and downstream inventory corrections in 2H22, which impacted IC design companies faster than wafer foundries since they are considerably more sensitive to market reversals.
Marvell cuts its entire China R&D team
March 27, 2023
US semiconductor company Marvell Technology is laying off its entire research and development team in mainland China.
Former Marvell CFO joins AMD
January 20, 2023
AMD's CFO and treasurer Devinder Kumar will be retiring from the company and former Marvell CFO Jean Hu will join on January 23 as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Mark Montierth to lead Micron’s mobile business
January 03, 2023
Micron Technology has appointed Mark Montierth to the role of corporate vice president and general manager of its Mobile Business Unit.
Total revenue of Top 10 IC design houses dropped 5% in Q3
December 15, 2022
According to Trendforce, the total revenue of the global top 10 IC design houses for 3Q22 showed a QoQ drop of 5.3%. Broadcom returned to the number two spot in revenue ranking by overtaking Nvidia and AMD.
Top ten IC design house revenue spikes 32% in 2Q22
September 07, 2022
According to the latest TrendForce statistics, revenue of the top ten global IC design houses reached US$39.56 billion in 2Q22, growing 32% YoY.
Marvell expands operations in Canada
June 14, 2022
Marvell Technology is looking to expand its Canadian presence in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver with plans for ongoing growth.
Top 10 IC design companies revenue reached $39.43B in 1Q22
June 09, 2022
According to the latest TrendForce statistics, the top ten IC designers worldwide posted a combined revenue of USD 39.43 billion in 1Q22, or 44% growth YoY.
Bell Semiconductor is suing companies left and right
May 12, 2022
In late April, Bell Semiconductor, a Pennsylvania-based technology and intellectual property licensing company, filed lawsuits against Micron, Infineon, Nvidia and seven other companies alleging infringement of one of its patents.
Top 10 IC design companies revenue top $100B in 2021
March 25, 2022
Due to vigorous stocking of various terminal applications causing a shortage of wafers in 2021, the global IC industry was severely undersupplied. This, coupled with spiking chip prices, boosted 2021 revenue of the global top ten IC design companies to USD 127.4 billion, or 48% YoY.
SiPearl receives €17.5 million in funding
December 20, 2021
SiPearl has just been awarded a EUR 17.5 million funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program. The funding will support the development and scale-up of SiPearl future-generation microprocessor. The funding aims to contribute to ensure European sovereignty in supercomputing for solving scientific, industrial and societal challenges.
Who's the biggest fabless IC design company in Q321?
December 16, 2021
The semiconductor market in 3Q21 is red hot with total revenue of the global top 10 IC design (fabless) companies reaching USD 33.7 billion or 45% growth YoY, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations.
Marvell completes its acquisition of Innovium
October 06, 2021
The provider of infrastructure semiconductor solutions has completed its acquisition of Innovium, Inc.,and thus broaden its portfolio of silicon solutions targeting cloud data centers.
Chip M&A deals reach USD 22bn; no mega-deals in sight
September 29, 2021
After a record-high start in 1Q21, semiconductor merger and acquisition announcements cool off a bit without the “megadeals” seen in 2020.
Top10 fabless IC design companies sees new revenue highs
September 21, 2021
In view of the ongoing production capacity shortage in the semiconductor industry and the resultant price hike of chips, revenue of the top 10 IC design companies for 2Q21 reached USD 29.8 billion, a 60.8% YoY increase, according to TrendForce's latest investigations.
Penetration rate of Ice Lake CPUs in server market to surpass 30% by 2022
August 23, 2021
While the server industry transitions to the latest generation of processors based on the x86 platform, the Intel Ice Lake and AMD Milan CPUs entered mass production earlier this year and were shipped to certain customers, such as North American CSPs and telecommunication companies, at a low volume in 1Q21, according to market researcher Tren[b][/b]dForce.
Marvell to acquire Innovium - expands ethernet switching portfolio
August 04, 2021
Marvell Technology has entered into a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Innovium in an all-stock transaction. Innovium shareholders will receive USD 1.1 billion in consideration consisting of about 19.05 million shares of Marvell Common Stock.
Crypto mining - key to Nvidia overtaking Broadcom in 1Q21
June 14, 2021
While foundry capacities remained tight, prompting IC design companies to compete over limited foundry capacities in order to fulfill rising demand for various end devices, the top 10 IC design (fabless) companies posted remarkable revenues in 1Q21, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations.
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