Sand to Silicon - How Semiconductors are Reimagining the Digital Future

Sand to Silicon - How Semiconductors are Reimagining the Digital Future

Summary

The semiconductor industry revolves around the design, manufacture, and distribution of smaller, quicker, and cheaper chips that are used as inputs for various sectors such as healthcare, transportation, and consumer electronics. IBM, Micron, Samsung, SMIC, and Canon are some of the major players to advance chip design and fabrication. The report uses GlobalData’s Innovation Explorer database and expert analysis to showcase some noteworthy examples from the semiconductor industry. It also casts light on GlobalData’s semiconductor industry value chain and how key players are innovating to rise to the top of the game with ground-breaking developments such as 2, 3, and 7-nanometer chips as well as contemporary lithography solutions. The awareness, knowledge, and expertise in these innovation areas can help transform business models, decision-making, and strategic thinking that directly influence research and development, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions.

Innovations: presents real-world innovation use cases and examples related to the implementation of emerging technologies by players in the semiconductor business. It casts light on how tech-enabled innovations are disrupting the semiconductor industry value chain while opening up avenues for the manufacture of smaller and more powerful chips in the future.

Scope

• Innovation Insights: innovation examples by each application segment of the semiconductor industry to present key trends.

• No surprise that technology has been a driving force in business transformation for years, but the term ‘emerging technologies’ has all of the sudden become the key catalyst to drive the next wave of innovation across sectors. The sense of urgency weighs different across different sectors, where the direct customer-facing sectors are at the forefront compared to other capital-intensive sectors. Companies in one sector can take cues from successful innovations in other sectors to either draw analogies with existing products, services, and processes or transfer strategic approaches for a revolutionary transformation.
• Against this backdrop, enterprises need to understand which emerging technologies are impacting their sector and how various companies are implementing them to meet various challenges.
• The innovation landscape report on semiconductor technologies published by GlobalData covers some of the key trends and real-world examples related to the implementation of various technologies to advance the manufacture of semiconductor chips.