Yole Développement and TRANSDUCERS 2013 Organizing Committee have joined forces to develop the most powerful event dedicated to the MEMS technology. This event takes place next week, in Barcelona, Spain.

Yole Développement announces its Sapphire applications - Touch screens, displays, semiconductor, defense and consumer applications of sapphire 2013 report. Yole Développement’s report provides a complete analysis of 6 main applications, related volume and revenue forecast, challenges, key players and supply chain. It also focuses on emerging opportunities.

In its latest technology & market analysis, titled “SiC Market”, Yole Développement identifies two scenarios for SiC industry evolution: “The optimistic scenario will see SiC devices used commercially in EV/HEV from 2015 onwards, taking 11% of the market from silicon IGBT devices by 2020”, explains Dr. Philippe Roussel, Business Unit Manager, Power Electronics & Compound Semi at Yole Développement. “In the pessimistic scenario, EV/HEV...

Yole Développement announces its SiC Market 2013: Technology and Market for SiC Wafers, Devices and Power Modules report. Yole Développement’s report focused on the entire value-chain, covers all SiC applications in low, medium and high power ranges and provides all metrics up to 2020. It also includes a Bill-of-Material analysis, to compare Silicon vs. SiC-based system costs, and a cost reduction roadmap for SiC devices.

Yole Développement is organizing a Market Briefing at PCIM Europe 2013. This event will take place on May 15, 2013, Hall 9 - Forum Area #461 - registration is free. Wideband gap semiconductor is a hot topic, but we must not forget that silicon isn't dead. On the contrary, it will continue to improve (SJ MOSFETs, Thin wafer IGBTs, etc.). For example:

Yole Développement announces its Flexible Applications Based on Printed Electronics Technologies 2013 report. Yole Développement’s report provides up-to-date market forecast 2013-2020, roadmaps and timelines for printed, flexible, and printed & flexible applications. Also, it analyses the function vs. flexibility, current technical & economic challenges, manufacturing process and focuses on polytronics.

“Biophotonics Market, Focus on Life Sciences & Health Applications” report from Yole Développement & Tematys Yole Développement, Tematys and EPIC announce their collaboration and release the new technology & market analysis: “Biophotonics Market, Focus on Life Sciences & Health Applications”. With this report, the partners propose you to learn more about the biophotonics industry.

Two years ago, Yole Développement said “The SiC industry is not a niche market anymore.” With its SiC technology & market analysis update arriving in May 2013, the French technology consulting company will confirm this statement by announcing that the SiC Devices market will surpass US$600M by 2020. “We expect a SiC market with 30% CAGR between 2015 – 2020,” said Dr. Philippe Roussel, Business Unit Manager, Power Electronics & Compound...

Yole Développement announces its Glass Substrates for Semiconductor Manufacturing report. This analysis provides a glass substrate wafer forecast for the next five years and predicts future application trends. In addition to key insights into future glass technology trends & challenges, the report delivers an overview of glass’s functionalities and the end-applications that use glass.

The SiC Power Center, Enterprise Europe Network and Yole Développement are proud to announce their third collaboration on the International SiC Power Electronics Applications Workshop (ISiCPEAW), taking place in Stockholm, Sweden from June 9 - 11. This year’s ISiCPEAW is a three-day event consisting of a two-day workshop covering the latest Silicon Carbide technology innovations in the Power Electronics area, and a one-day tutorial prior to th...

Yole Développement announces its High-Concentration Photovoltaics Business and Technology Update report. Yole Développement’s report presents the key factors to improve the bankability of HCPV installation projects and a new analysis to guide strategic business decisions related to this technology. Yole Développement also updated from its 2012 edition market data for wafers, epiwafers and installation, costs of HCPV modules & system.

For the second straight year, Yole Développement and Serma have joined forces to organize the Successful Semiconductor Fabless conference, a unique European event dedicated to the fabless business model. This event takes place in Paris, from April 10 to 12. In the 1970’s, the semiconductor industry was vertically integrated. Most companies were IDMs with manufacturing, design, intellectual property and marketing activities.

Yole Développement announces its Flip Chip Market and Technology Trends report. Yole Développement’s analysis updates the business status of the Flip-Chip market including data for TIM, underfills, substrates and Flip-Chip bonders. Discover fully updated 2010 – 2018 market forecast, detailed technology roadmap and bottom up approach, plus a strong focus on micro bumping for 3DIC & 2.5D.

According to Yole Développement, “In the semiconductor industry, there are different ways of managing the technology evolution and doing business”. Indeed, key players like Intel are at the forefront of technological developments and adapt their capabilities by introducing new production lines. Such companies have vast financial resources for in-house development.

Yole Développement’s research has credited STMicroelectronics for capitalizing on the booming demand for MEMS in mobile devices by shipping a whopping 58% more MEMS units in 2012 to become the first company to reach $1 billion in MEMS sales. And that was in a year when the average prices of accelerometers and gyroscopes that are its core MEMS products dropped by 20%-30%.

In its new report MEMS Front-End Manufacturing Trends, Yole Développement goes further in the equipment & materials market forecasts and in the manufacturing trends for MEMS. The report gives detailed analyses about MEMS device technology process flow, manufacturing trends and manufacturing cost breakdown (accelerometers/gyroscopes, microphones, pressure sensors, optical MEMS…).

Yole Développement announces its Inverter market trends for 2013 – 2020 and major technology changes report. Yole Développement’s report provides a focus on the six most attractive applications (PV, wind turbines, EV/HEV, rail traction, motor drives and UPS) and a new analysis on power stack trend from the previous report. Yole Développement also updated the technology trends, market forecasts until 2020, supply chain analysis and regional...

Yole Développement announces its report “BioMEMS”. In this new edition, Yole Développement has gone a step further in its forecasts by splitting each general application into more detailed sub-applications. For example, “Blood Pressure applications” is separated into “blood monitoring disposable” and “blood monitoring equipment”. Moreover, compared to the previous edition, the company added the latest market data for each device...

Yole Développement announces its Super Junction MOSFET - Business Update report. Yole Développement’s report provides an exhaustive analysis of high-voltage (+400V) Super Junction MOSFET markets (metrics and forecasts), technologies (deep trench vs multi-epi) and players.

Yole Développement announces today its new report “LED packaging”. Compared to the last edition, this update version provides you an update of all market metrics (packaged LED, equipment, materials…), an highlight of 2012 LED packaging trends (design, new technologies and materials per process step…) and lots of additional analysis (wafer bonding, thermal management at the LED module level…).