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According to a latest market intelligence study, the global Ion implantation machine market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of ~8% during the forecast period, owing to numerous factors, regarding which, study offers thorough insights and forecasts in the global Ion implantation machine market report. In this market report, study predicts that, increase in the demand of electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, and other electronic gadgets is anticipated to proliferate the Ion implantation machine market.

Malcolm Penn is forecasting a 10% hike in the global semiconductor market rationalising an upturn is certain, it is just a matter of how much. As Penn , the CEO of Future Horizons reveals, “There is plenty of historic evidence that the market could show double-digit growth.”

ROHM and STMicroelectronics have announced that it signed a multi-year Silicon Carbide (SiC) wafers supply agreement with SiCrystal, a ROHM group company having a top share of SiC wafers in Europe. The agreement governs the supply of over 120 million dollars of advanced 150mm silicon carbide wafers by SiCrystal to STMicroelectronics during this period of demand ramp-up for silicon carbide power devices.

The global market for semiconductors used in utility meters is expected to rise to more than $1bn in 2023, up from $907m in 2018, offering an attractive opportunity for chip suppliers, according to IHS Markit. Market growth is mainly being driven by government-imposed rollout plans and enhancements in the utility infrastructure, as reported by the Industrial Semiconductor Intelligence Service.

Littelfuse has announced the Gate Drive Evaluation Platform (GDEV). The new evaluation platform helps designers evaluate SiC MOSFETs, SiC Schottky diodes, and other peripheral components like gate driver circuitry, so that they can better understand how silicon carbide technologies will behave in converter applications under continuous operating conditions.

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Mouser Electronics has agreed a distribution deal and partnership with GigaDevice, a provider of non-volatile memory solutions. As part of the agreement, Mouser Electronics is now an authorised distributor of GigaDevice SPI NOR, SPI NAND, and parallel NAND flash memory devices that are ideal for embedded applications such as automotive, consumer electronics, Internet of Things (IoT), industrial and mobile devices.

IC Insights recently released its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report that provides in-depth analyses and forecasts of IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process geometry, by region, and by product type through 2024. Typically, the IC industry meets most of its IC unit demand by increasing wafer starts, not by dramatically increasing the number of dice per wafer. The number of good ICs shipped per wafer increased by an average of only 0.9% annually from 2000 through 2019.