The Semiconductor

Industry
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What is semiconductor?
A semiconductor is a substance, usually a
solid chemical element or compound, that can
conduct electricity under some conditions but
not others, making it a good medium for the
control of electrical current.
The most common semiconductor materials
are silicon and germanium.

What are Semiconductors Used

For?
Integrated Circuits
89.7% of market
CPU and PC memory (DRAM, SRAM, Flash
Memory)
Discrete Devices
Transistors, diodes, resistors
Optoelectrics
LED, Optical coupler, laser diode

History

The invention of transistors

In 1948, transistor was
invented by Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
These first transistors were
bipolar.
This technology allowed a
huge decrease in the size of
electric device

The invention of transistors

John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain at Bell

Labs, 1948

The invention of Integrated

Circuit
In 1952, Geoffrey Dummer presented the idea
of integrated circuits at a conference in
Washington, DC
In 1958, Jack Kilby was the first who bonded 3
transistor together
In 1960, Rober Noyce merged the idea with
Jean Hoemis planar process, and the first
modern semiconductor was born.

The invention of Integrated

Circuit

JACK KILBY AND HIS INTEGRATED

CIRCUIT

ROBER NOYCES INTEGRATED

CIRCUIT

The development of
semiconductor industry
In 1960, semiconductor equipments begun to appear on
the commercial market and shortly after, in 1964, the
semiconductor industry surpassed $1 billion sales for the
first time.
The 1970s developed small chip sizes, allowing to
create small, powerful electronic devices. Price of chips
also fell as technology advanced and production
increased.
In 1974, the digital watch became the first product to
integrate a complete electronic system on a single chip.

The development of
semiconductor industry
The 1980s is often known as the period of early
maturity for semiconductors, and is the basis for
what we see today.
EDA (Electronic Design Automation) became
vital to managing the large scale integration levels
(LSI), which started at 10,000 transistors and
ended at 100,000 transistors.
The 1990s and 2000s was the boom in personal
electronic devices.

Industry
Characteristics

Short life cycles

Continuous
innovation.
Moores law: the
number of transistors
in an integrated
circuit doubles every
18 months

High Research and Development

cost
R&D is vital to maintaining competitive
advantage
R&D enables firms to release competitive
products

Global
Semiconductor
Industry

Global semiconductor sales

Worldwide
semiconductor
sales
increased from $101.9
billion in 1994 to
$335.8 billion in 2014
and forecast to reach
$347 billion in 2015,
$359 billion in 2016,
and $370 in 2017.

Global market
The U.S. semiconductor industry has over half
the global market share

Global market

Global market
Global sales are diversified by type of product

Global market

Company Analysis

VietNams
Semiconductor
Industry

Introduction
Vietnam government places IC design and
fabrication as one of top priority programs to develop
from 2010-2020.
By 2017, the program targets to achieve a highvalue integrated IC industry worth $100-150 million
Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP) is one of favorable
destination for IC design and manufacturing
companies such as Intel, Signet design solutions, etc

Introduction
The Vietnamese government decided to set
up a wafer fabrication plant in Ho Chi Minh city.
The technology chosen for this first wafer-fab
is 0.18um/200mm costing US$300 million.
This fab will be able to make about 400
million chips per year targeting minimum
business revenue of about US$ 120 million/year

Chip design companies

EDA suppliers

Typical products
In 2007, KLA-Tencor Corporation (ranked 5th in the
company Fab Global 2013) has purchased software
FabSolve, LLC of the Company Dolsolf Vietnam Male.

Products are designed

and made by BKIC:
Voltage Regulator IC
BKIC01.LDO03, rectifier IC
BKIC02.AC-DC013,

Typical products
ICDREC, established in 2005, is one of the
nation's leading centers in training and
transferring technology for the IC industry.
Located in Ho Chi Minh City, the centre has long
been known for its successful design of the 8,
16 and 32-bit chips, used for many handling and
telecommunication devices