Yole Développement announces its Glass Substrates for Semiconductor Manufacturing report. This analysis provides a glass substrate wafer forecast for the next five years and predicts future application trends. In addition to key insights into future glass technology trends & challenges, the report delivers an overview of glass’s functionalities and the end-applications that use glass.

The SiC Power Center, Enterprise Europe Network and Yole Développement are proud to announce their third collaboration on the International SiC Power Electronics Applications Workshop (ISiCPEAW), taking place in Stockholm, Sweden from June 9 - 11. This year’s ISiCPEAW is a three-day event consisting of a two-day workshop covering the latest Silicon Carbide technology innovations in the Power Electronics area, and a one-day tutorial prior to th...

Yole Développement announces its High-Concentration Photovoltaics Business and Technology Update report. Yole Développement’s report presents the key factors to improve the bankability of HCPV installation projects and a new analysis to guide strategic business decisions related to this technology. Yole Développement also updated from its 2012 edition market data for wafers, epiwafers and installation, costs of HCPV modules & system.

For the second straight year, Yole Développement and Serma have joined forces to organize the Successful Semiconductor Fabless conference, a unique European event dedicated to the fabless business model. This event takes place in Paris, from April 10 to 12. In the 1970’s, the semiconductor industry was vertically integrated. Most companies were IDMs with manufacturing, design, intellectual property and marketing activities.

Yole Développement announces its Flip Chip Market and Technology Trends report. Yole Développement’s analysis updates the business status of the Flip-Chip market including data for TIM, underfills, substrates and Flip-Chip bonders. Discover fully updated 2010 – 2018 market forecast, detailed technology roadmap and bottom up approach, plus a strong focus on micro bumping for 3DIC & 2.5D.

According to Yole Développement, “In the semiconductor industry, there are different ways of managing the technology evolution and doing business”. Indeed, key players like Intel are at the forefront of technological developments and adapt their capabilities by introducing new production lines. Such companies have vast financial resources for in-house development.

Yole Développement’s research has credited STMicroelectronics for capitalizing on the booming demand for MEMS in mobile devices by shipping a whopping 58% more MEMS units in 2012 to become the first company to reach $1 billion in MEMS sales. And that was in a year when the average prices of accelerometers and gyroscopes that are its core MEMS products dropped by 20%-30%.

In its new report MEMS Front-End Manufacturing Trends, Yole Développement goes further in the equipment & materials market forecasts and in the manufacturing trends for MEMS. The report gives detailed analyses about MEMS device technology process flow, manufacturing trends and manufacturing cost breakdown (accelerometers/gyroscopes, microphones, pressure sensors, optical MEMS…).

Yole Développement announces its Inverter market trends for 2013 – 2020 and major technology changes report. Yole Développement’s report provides a focus on the six most attractive applications (PV, wind turbines, EV/HEV, rail traction, motor drives and UPS) and a new analysis on power stack trend from the previous report. Yole Développement also updated the technology trends, market forecasts until 2020, supply chain analysis and regional...

Yole Développement announces its report “BioMEMS”. In this new edition, Yole Développement has gone a step further in its forecasts by splitting each general application into more detailed sub-applications. For example, “Blood Pressure applications” is separated into “blood monitoring disposable” and “blood monitoring equipment”. Moreover, compared to the previous edition, the company added the latest market data for each device...

Yole Développement announces its Super Junction MOSFET - Business Update report. Yole Développement’s report provides an exhaustive analysis of high-voltage (+400V) Super Junction MOSFET markets (metrics and forecasts), technologies (deep trench vs multi-epi) and players.

Yole Développement announces today its new report “LED packaging”. Compared to the last edition, this update version provides you an update of all market metrics (packaged LED, equipment, materials…), an highlight of 2012 LED packaging trends (design, new technologies and materials per process step…) and lots of additional analysis (wafer bonding, thermal management at the LED module level…).

Yole Développement has organized an LED & Power Electronics seminar in South Korea for January 29, 2013 – just prior to SEMICON Korea. Dedicated to the areas of LED and Power Electronics, the seminar will consist of Yole Développement presentations on the aforementioned market areas, along with presentations from System Plus Consulting on their Reverse Costing and Cost Simulation tools. Featured speakers are Dr. Philippe Roussel, Yole Dévelo...

Yole Développement announces its report “Sapphire Substrates 2013”. This report provides a detailed analysis of the sapphire industry, including revenue, volume and price trends for all major substrate applications. It also includes an extensive list of manufacturers with current and planned capacity, and an analysis of established and emerging manufacturing technologies. The drivers and dynamics of the LED and SoS markets are analyzed, and ...

Yole Développement and Serma Technologies are proud to announce that the Successful Fabless Semiconductor 2013 Conference, jointly organized with Novotel Vaugirard, will take place in Paris from April 10 - 12, 2013. With four sessions dedicated to the fabless industry -- including design, industrialization and a special focus on “fabless in Power Electronics” -- the SSF 2013 program covers all business, technology and supply chain challenges...

Yole Développement announces its Power Electronics for Rail Applications report. Yole Développement’s report focuses on the rail industry. Yole Développement Power Electronics team analyzes how this industry is structured, its market and players and technological developments that will impact the power electronics market.

Yole Développement announces its webcast Thin Wafer Applications & Related Technologies. This online event takes place on Nov. 14 at 8.00 AM PST. The webcast is sponsored by EV Group and powered by I-Micronews.com. With more than 330 registrations today, this webcast is a promising event, where attendees and speakers will exchange about the latest market trends and technologies innovation.

Yole Développement and System Plus Consulting announce the Reverse Engineering & Costing seminar. This event takes place on Nov. 13 & 14, 2012 in Taipei, ITRI office. During two days – First day dedicated to the MEMS area and second day dedicated to the LED area – both companies offer you to discover the industry, its technical challenges and reverse costing & cost simulation tools. To register, please contact Mei-Ling Tsai, Business Develo...

So far, OLED revenue has been driven mainly by display applications (smartphones…) but the industry is now targeting the lighting market based on the technology specificities in terms of design and efficiency. Yole Développement is pleased to announce today its new report “OLED for Lighting” which presents all OLED Lighting applications and associated market metrics for the period 2012-2020, and a deep analysis of OLED technology and OLED ...

Yole Développement announces its new analysis “Emerging Energy Harvesting Devices”. In this report, Yole Développement analysts describe why and how emerging energy harvesting devices will be increasingly used in the dynamic wireless sensor business.