News China's mature chips to make up 28% of world production, creating oversupply — Western companies express concern for their survival

[Admin]

China's prolific output of mature chips is beginning to shock the global market, with prices sinking and companies hurting.

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[chaz_music]

It has been visible for quite some time that SiC wafers were going to go down in price as they become more and more commodity. Even in power electronics, the device designs are missing some key tech, so this is where tech development should be. And, of course, moving SiC into mainstream devices that can benefit from the higher thermal conductivity and switching speed of SiC such as CPUs, Flash, and communications (PCIe 6/7, PAM/QAM, etc.).

 

[thestryker]

This is an important part of the market that largely seems ignored by the big players because there's no money in it. It has also been ignored by all of the government policies/incentives across the globe. This was a partial driver behind Intel's attempt at buying Tower Semiconductor since they no longer have any legacy fabs. I'm not sure what the best way forward is with regards to protecting that industry, but hopefully it happens.

 

[Sketch 006]

Typical business practices, undercut until you dominate the industry or portion you want of it, then after the competition is killed off, start taking in the profit

 

[Grobe]

comercial question: Does the/some/any retailers have any ethics committee that can somehow mitigate the issue if the origin place (with defined borders as seen on a map or globe) have spoken open about ... (you know, when at least one neighbor of that particular place/area have reason to not feel safe) ?