Samsung Electronics has seen its 12-inch wafer fab capacity utilization rise to 90% in the second quarter from 80% registered a quarter earlier, driven by stable 5/4nm process performance and the ...

TSMC is undertaking significant upgrades at its existing 8-inch and 12-inch fabrication facilities that process chips at 90nm and above, while accelerating expansion for cutting-edge 2nm and below ...

Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) vendors’ revenues collectively climbed 12% YoY in 2025, reaching $143 billion, says Counterpoint Research. The growth was propelled by the massive build-out of AI ...

Plasma etching is perhaps the most essential process in semiconductor manufacturing, and possibly the most complex of all fab operations next to photolithography. Nearly half of all fab steps rely on ...