Abstract
This paper describes the emerging trends in the major business segments of the integrated circuit industry. As the integrated circuit technology approaches its ultimate scaling limit, the different segments of the industry are evolving continuously by adopting new business strategies to gain competitive advantage: the manufacturing is persistently releasing next generation technologies, dedicated foundries are transitioning to complete product development solution providers, fabless companies are adopting innovative business strategies, integrated device manufacturers are transitioning to fab-lite, and the assembly and test is developing scaled packages. This paper discusses the evolution of these major business segments in the microelectronics industry.
Highlights
The semiconductor industry in general and the microelectronics sector in particular have been continuously evolving since the invention of integrated circuits (ICs) in the year 1958 [1] [2]
The objective of this paper is to present the emerging trends in the major business segments of the microelectronics industry
In order to achieve this goal, first of all, we describe the foundry business model and changes occurring in the fabless segments of the microelectronics industry
Summary
The semiconductor industry in general and the microelectronics sector in particular have been continuously evolving since the invention of integrated circuits (ICs) in the year 1958 [1] [2]. The foundry business model offers IC design companies easier market entry to design and sale niche products and set new business trends in the microelectronics industry [10]-[13]. In order to provide manufacturing solution, the dedicated foundries develop advanced manufacturing technology [15] [16] whereas fabless companies focus in design and new product development. With the commoditized front-end manufacturing technology and slowed down pace of advanced technology development, new trends are emerging in different segments of the microelectronics industry. We analyze the front-end fabrication segment of the industry that is continuing to drive technology development enabling the kind of advances predicted by Moore’s Law. we introduce the back-end fabrication segment where the miniaturization race seems to be shifting assembly-and-test segment of the microelectronics industry
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