Driven by increasing demand from IoT devices, chipsets for electric vehicles, and smartphones, global semiconductor sales increased 23.5% from November 2020 to November 2021, establishing an industry record for the highest-ever annual total. Yet efforts to meet demand are hampered by semiconductor processing challenges in both raw materials provisioning and supply chain bottlenecks that have been exacerbated by disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the face of these challenges, what can the industry do to retain this large growth opportunity?
Included in this Intelligence Brief:
- Snapshot of the current state of the industry
- A look at the major manufacturing challenges
- Deep-dive analysis of what’s driving demand and how supply chain problems can be mitigated
- Technological breakthroughs necessary to achieve the next nodes
- New semiconductor materials advancing capabilities beyond those of silicon
- Roadmap for effective mitigation of the current semiconductor processing challenges
