In recent years, e-mobility has become the new Eldorado of the Li-ion batteries. This includes EV/HEV, electric buses, trucks, and bikes, e-mobility overtakes consumer electronics market segment to represent 72% of the total rechargeable Li-ion battery cell market’s value in 2022.

Glass plays a key role in the semiconductor industry, whether it is used as a permanent or as a temporary material within the manufacturing processes. It is today already implemented as a mature solution, in several market segments such as IR cut filter for CIS technology, microfluidics devices and some actuators and sensors. Yole Développement (Yole) confirms the growth of the glass materials market for the next five years. Therefore, the...

Not only serving as packaging support, advanced packaging is a key enabling technology that offers more value and cost reduction to the final products. The advanced packaging industry with its seven percent CAGR between 2016 and 2022 (in revenues) is undoubtedly a dynamic sector where innovations play a key role. NXP’s SCM-i.MX6Q FO PoP SiP with boot memory and power management is a good illustration of the evolution of advanced packaging p...

"Since its invention in the 1960s, the laser has evolved from 'a solution looking for a problem' to a tool becoming indispensable in many application fields, spanning multiple industries,” explained Royce Lee, Sales Director of Consumer Electronics Industry, Laser Technology, TRUMPF. “Advances in laser technologies ranging from power scaling to ultra short pulse technologies and cost per watt reduction has further accelerated the adop...

According to latest research, the market for MEMS microphones and ECMs, micro-speakers and audio ICs will be worth $20bn in 2022. Compared to 2006, the audio business is about to experience profound changes. When Yole Développement (Yole), part of Yole Group of Companies released its first microphone report in 2006, the MEMS microphone industry was at the early stage, with emerging players and applications. The 'More than Moore' market res...

Today, the main part of the power module cost is the power packaging materials. In 2016 almost 40% of the total cost was due to the cost of materials for packaging. “To understand the evolution of the power packaging market, it is now essential to look in details the selected materials and design and evaluate each innovation,” commented Mattin Grao Txapartegi, Technology & Market Analyst, Power Electronics at Yole Développe...

In its latest power electronics report, Power MOSFET: Market & Technology Trends, Yole Développement (Yole) announced that 'in 2016, the MOSFET market recovered, after a minor downturn in 2015.” With stable growth, mainly in automotive and industrial sales in 2016 the overall silicon power MOSFET market size surpassed 2014’s performance. “We expect the market to grow steadily thanks to increasing demand...

As the development of packaging technologies intensifies, in order to accommodate further front-end scaling trends and multi-die integration, advanced FO RDL and FC substrates represent the key interconnect components. The competition between FO and FC packages and the features of their interconnect components is resulting in an abundance of new package architectures that are crucial in enabling future products and markets.

It is believed that 3D imaging, gas sensing and autofocus will fuel the Infra-Red (IR) light source market. The More than Moore market research and strategy consulting company, Yole Développement (Yole), has announced a $1.5bn opportunity in 2022 in multiple applications and potentially $3.8bn in 2027. “Some applications will generate large revenues and strong growth rates during the next five years,” explained Pars M...

  2016 was the year of strong consolidations in the semiconductor industry and Yole Développement (Yole) highlighted many mergers and acquisitions. “2017 seems to be following the same path”, wrote Jérôme Azemar, Technology & Market Analyst, Advanced Packaging at Yole. Year after year, the advanced packaging industry has attracted more and more of the spotlight.

The 'More than Moore' market research and strategy consulting company, Yole has released a new technology and market report focused on Bulk GaN substrate, titled 'Bulk GaN Substrate Market'.

The MEMS & sensor offering has never been so diverse. Inertial, pressure, temperature, (bio-)chemical and gas sensors as well as microphones, fingerprint and iris recognition. All devices are part of the IoT revolution. Yole Développement (Yole) analysts are currently noting plenty of excitement within the MEMS & Sensors sector. Dream or reality: what is the status of IoT applications?

"MicroLED could emerge as a new display application with unique performance benefits”, commented Dr Eric Virey, Senior Technology and Market Analyst at Yole Développement (Yole). “But there are still numerous challenges ahead”. Interest in microLED displays has grown exponentially since the acquisition of Luxvue by Apple in 2014. 

  The evolution of the smartphone industry since ten years offers to biometric technologies a huge opportunity to install sensors on each human. Today biometrics technologies are rapidly integrated and evolve quickly.

In today's fast-growing fan-out market showing an 80% increase between 2015 and 2017, it is essential to deeply understand the patent strategies of the key players. The Technology Intelligence and IP Strategy Company, KnowMade, has thoroughly investigated the fan-out packaging patent landscape and has released a patent landscape analysis entitled Fan-Out Wafer Level Packaging. 

Within a highly competitive landscape due to a strong price pressure, most LED companies are looking for business opportunities and adopt different strategies of development. Vertical integration, product, application and activity diversification… New relays of growth are required for LED players to survive.

Today, there is a relatively large variety of different battery technologies that can challenge Li-ion batteries. Under its report entitled Beyond Li-ion Batteries: Present & Future Li-ion Technology Challengers, Yole Développement (Yole) identifies: NAS, Li-S, Na-ion, Mg-ion, Li-air, zinc-air and flow batteries and LIC. Some of these technologies are at the R&D stage and some are already in commercial production.

New research from Yole Développement (Yole) has indicated that imaging technology is playing an increasing integral role within the automotive sector, contributing to an estimated 20% CAGR (compound annual growth rate), between 2015 and 2021.

The overall inverter market in 2015 exceeded US$ 47 billion driven by many market segments including EV/HEV, PV inverters, rail traction, wind turbines and more. “With an impressive 6% CAGR until 2021 , the power converter is clearly driving the power passive components market”, announces the “More than Moore” market research and strategy consulting company, Yole Développement (Yole).

Consumer applications, especially smartphones and tablets, have been the main driver of the MEMS and sensors industry for some time now. Today, a general slowdown has been clearly identified by the players and confirmed by the Yole Développement (Yole) report, Status of the MEMS Industry (Yole Développement, May 2016).