Spending | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:41:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Spending | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Semiconductor factories expected to spend close to $68 billion on equipment in 2021 https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/christopher-nohall/semiconductor-factories-expected-to-spend-close-to-68-billion-on-equipment-in-2021/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/christopher-nohall/semiconductor-factories-expected-to-spend-close-to-68-billion-on-equipment-in-2021/#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:40:08 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=471878 It's no secret that semiconductor factories are expensive, with companies often pouring billions upon billions into new plants. However, 2021 looks to be a record-breaking year, with an expected growth of 24 percent. Back in 2011, it was estimated that semiconductor equipment reached sales of $41.8 billion – a number that has since grown more …

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It's no secret that semiconductor factories are expensive, with companies often pouring billions upon billions into new plants. However, 2021 looks to be a record-breaking year, with an expected growth of 24 percent.

Back in 2011, it was estimated that semiconductor equipment reached sales of $41.8 billion – a number that has since grown more than 50 percent. Even though the semiconductor market has grown substantially in the past ten years, it doesn't mean that the growth has been constant – 2019 saw an eight percent dip while 2020 is expected to see a four percent decrease YoY.

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According to SEMI, it's expected that 2021 will see all product segments grow, and memory fabs are expected to spend the most, reaching $30 billion. The sector for image sensors is predicted to see an 60 percent increase in 2020, followed up with a strong 2021 with a further 36 percent growth.

In spite of worldwide spending on semiconductor factory equipment decreasing 15 percent in the first quarter of 2020 (QoQ), it's looking like things are on the up. If the forecast from SEMI holds true the market for semiconductor equipment is heading towards a bright future.

Additional information from SEMI is available HERE.

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KitGuru says: What do you think are the main factors driving the predicted growth of spending on semiconductor equipment?

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£440 million will get fibre to 600,000 more homes https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/440-million-will-get-fibre-to-600000-more-homes/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/440-million-will-get-fibre-to-600000-more-homes/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:33:37 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=315421 Over half a million homes in the UK will gain access to fiber internet access for the first time, following an investment of some £440 million by the government. Although not entirely ‘new money' the returned subsidies and £160 million of cost savings will give BT Openreach plenty of extra capital to work with. Despite …

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Over half a million homes in the UK will gain access to fiber internet access for the first time, following an investment of some £440 million by the government. Although not entirely ‘new money' the returned subsidies and £160 million of cost savings will give BT Openreach plenty of extra capital to work with.

Despite its status in the developed world, the UK's average broadband speed is only just within the top 15 countries. Less than half of the country has access to speeds higher than 10Mb per second too, which is part of what the Digital Economy Bill was supposed to change.

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A big chunk of this latest investment money is coming from BT itself, in a confusing return and respend. Surprisingly, BT actually came in under budget when it rolled out faster broadband access to many parts of the UK following a 2010 investment from the government, so now that unused money can be respent on increasing the reach of fiber access (thanks BBC).

This will however only be fiber to the cabinet connections. While the UK looks set to be one of the better countries in terms of that availability, consumer access to fibre-to-the-premises connections, which offer much greater speeds than a few tens of megabits per second, are much rarer. It's those sorts of connections that BT and the government should be targeting critics claim, but countrywide availability of that is likely to take many more years.

KitGuru Says: It's good to see fiber being rolled out to more parts of the UK, but as a small country with a strong tech-sector, we should really be higher on the list of worldwide broadband speeds. 

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