Month: December 2021

People all over semiconductor world have been speculating about the TSMC and Intel deal. SemiAnalysis wants to set the record straight on these. We are going to dive into the details for wafer supply agreements including prepayment terms and capacity agreements for AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.

In this multi-part series we will do a deep dive into the advanced packaging mega-trend. This will include a breakdown of the various types of advanced packaging, flows, tool types, and vendors. In part 1 we dive into what pad limited designs are, the slowdown of Moore’s Law and end of economic shrinks, heterogeneous compute, and the economic and design implications of chiplets.