The Chip Shots blog channels the observations of Fabtech's Senior Contributing Editor from -- U.S., Tom Cheyney, a 20-year veteran of semiconductor and advanced micro/nanoelectronics trade journalism. Tom was editor in chief of MICRO (the original home of Chip Shots) until it ceased publication in July 2006; he also serves as Senior Contributing Editor for Small Times. Tom calls Los Angeles home.
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Jan 17, 2008 at 03:32 PM |
The timing of this year's Industry Strategy Symposium and the fiscal year-end earnings announcements from both ASML and Intel taking place during the same week may have been coincidental, but the news certainly opens up a few avenues for random (and not-so-random) numbers games---a favorite pastime here at Chip Shots.
Intel's 2007 revenues came in at a healthy $38.4 billion, which is nearly $3 billion more than Gartner Dataquest's total wafer-fab equipment (WFE) market number ($35.56 billion) for the same period.Write Comment (2 comments) |
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Jan 15, 2008 at 05:31 PM |
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Every Industry Strategy Symposium includes not only the latest macro- and microeconomic forecasts and predictions, but a lot of interesting factoids that offer bite-size food for thought.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Jan 14, 2008 at 03:48 PM |
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The new year looks pretty good for the semiconductor industry, pretty sketchy for the equipment sector, and pretty solid for the materials folks, if the new forecasts from some of the usual research-analyst suspects hold true.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Jan 14, 2008 at 08:52 AM |
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Few solar photovoltaic sectors exhibit as volatile a combination of hype and promise as the copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) thin-film segment.Write Comment (6 comments) |
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Jan 11, 2008 at 07:08 PM |
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Nothing like a forecasted 27X increase in a market over a two-year period to get one's attention: When I saw the news coverage about a report predicting growth from $300 million to $8 billion in the used semiconductor equipment market from 2007 to 2009, I did a double take.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Jan 10, 2008 at 04:46 PM |
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Although I'm not a true gadgethead, I do appreciate the complete and utter feast that this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas must proffer for the gizmologically inclined.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Jan 09, 2008 at 08:07 AM |
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One of the original purposes of blogs, once known as Weblogs, was to offer links to interesting tidbits all over the World Wide Interweb (sic), something Chip Shots does from time to time in addition to the usual onslaught of rants, musings, analyses, and news coverage.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Jan 08, 2008 at 11:07 AM |
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KMG Chemicals' $75 million acquisition of Air Products' high-purity process chemicals (HPPC) unit closed last week: The deal made me think of Ashland Chemicals, HPPC's old corporate home, which Air Products bought for a cool 300 mill during the summer of 2003.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Jan 03, 2008 at 04:23 PM |
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After taking off some time absence during the Christmas and New Year's holiday break, Chip Shots plans to ease back into things---which shouldn't be too difficult considering the paucity of chip/solar/MEMS/FPOE/etc.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 24, 2007 at 09:31 AM |
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As we reported in Fabtech's pair o' blogs last week, Nanosolar announced it had shipped its first CIGS-based solar panels and put its second roll-to-roll manufactured panel up for auction on eBay, with the proceeds destined for charity.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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