Probe Card Market Analysis, Share and Size, Emerging Trends, Overview and Outlook, Growth And Segment Forecasts To 2020
Technavio Announces the Publication of its Research Report – Global Probe Card Market 2016-2020 Technavio recognizes the following companies as the key players in the global probe card market: FormFactor, Japan Electronic Materials, Micronics Japan, MPI and Technoprobe. Other Prominent Vendors in the market are: Advantest, AMST, BucklingBeam Solutions, Cascade Microtech, Feinmetall, Korea Instrument, Microfriend, SV Probe, TSE, and WILL Technology. Browse full report with TOC@ https://marketreportscenter.com/reports/356392/global-probe-cardmarket-2016-2020 Commenting on the report, an analyst from Technavio’ s team said: “Emergence of new testing technologies will be a key trend for market growth. The test equipment industry is seeing the emergence of new technologies to meet the growing demand for compact and efficient semiconductor test equipment. This is helping the test equipment vendors to strengthen their offerings. Self-test technologies are being designed into circuits so as to simplify the testing procedures. The introduction of TSV technology is also demanding new testing technologies to ensure the reliability of semiconductors.” According to the report, miniaturization of electronic devices will be a key driver for market growth. The demand for compact electronics has been aggregating in almost every sector, be it communication device, automotive, industrial manufacturing, or healthcare equipment. This trend has forced the semiconductor IC manufacturers to spend on R&D in order to reduce the size and increase the performance of ICs, which has led to the emergence of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and 3D stacked ICs based on TSVs in which the interconnections, or vias, penetrate the silicon wafer to achieve higher vias density. Due to the introduction of such advanced manufacturing processes, the number of transistors per IC has increased without occupying any extra space, which leads to physical access limitations and increased circuit design complexity. Testing of such type of ICs has become a major challenge and has created a demand for advanced probe cards. Further, the report states that continual price pressure on vendors will be a challenge for the market. Irrespective of the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry, there is always a price pressure on semiconductor manufacturers due to which vendors of test equipment have to reduce their market price.As the competition in the consumer electronics market increases, the prices of these goods are driven down, which creates a significant price pressure on the semiconductor test equipment vendors.