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Die banking is a process through which raw die and wafer is stored by a manufacturer until it is required for ASIC assembly. Because of its ability to keep manufacturers from continuously re-entering the marketplace, die banking is a great way to help avoid price increases, extended lead times, and many kinds of supply chain…
New data from the Hackett Group’s Working Capital Survey indicates that the global supply chain this year, facing inconsistent lead times and shipping delays, has made some drastic strategic changes toward the use of buffer stock. In a survey of 1,000 nonfinancial companies’ working capital levels, inventory balances increased from $1.19 trillion a year ago…
Buffer stock appears to be the way of the future for global supply chains. Recently at the Global Smart Vehicle Executive Summit of Seicon Taiwan 2022, Director of Automotive and MCU Business Development at TSMC, Cheng-Ming Lin, made a comment that made the automotive industry take notice: as hard as the auto industry has had…
The benefits of buffer stock are well known across the business landscape and have long been seen as a strategy to secure supply chains. In 2022, however, the use of buffer stock to shore up critical inventory such as electronic components, semiconductors, have gone from being a supply chain luxury to being an absolute necessity.…
Supply Chain Disruption Expected to Continue From the raw materials to the final build, companies across the industrial landscape are seeing forms of disruption, creating a year of unprecedented uncertainty and concern for the future of their supply chains. At the very origins of the supply chain, there have been raw material shortages. Since the…
Die and wafer banking is here to stay. According to Yahoo Finance, the wafer market is projected to grow in value from $11.4 billion in 2022 to $20.6 billion by 2027 — an annual growth rate of 12.5%. The reasons for such growth are easy to see: companies across all major industries who rely on…