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Industry coverage6 commissioned studies · $19.1B in aggregate coverage

Semiconductors & Electronics.

Semiconductor geopolitics is now first-order. We cover logic, memory, analog, SoC, compound semis (SiC, GaN), equipment (EUV, deposition, etch), and the electronics value chain from foundry to OEM.

Our view

Thesis on Semiconductors & Electronics.

Semiconductor geopolitics is now first-order. We cover logic, memory, analog, SoC, compound semis (SiC, GaN), equipment (EUV, deposition, etch), and the electronics value chain from foundry to OEM.

Same methodology as every other Meridian verticalCommittee-reviewed before publication
What we research

Sub-sectors of Semiconductors & Electronics.

Every sub-sector below is commissionable as a standalone 30-chapter study, or scoped bespoke for investment-committee and diligence use.

Logic, Memory & Foundry

Advanced-node economics (3nm/2nm), DRAM and NAND cycles, TSMC-Samsung-Intel dynamics.

Analog, Power & Compound Semis

Analog ICs, power management, SiC/GaN adoption in EV and industrial applications.

Semiconductor Equipment

EUV, deposition, etch, test, metrology, capex cycles and geopolitical restrictions.

Electronics & Components

Passive components, PCB, connectors, displays, OEM supply-chain and price-cost pass-through.

Sensors & MEMS

CMOS image sensors, automotive MEMS, industrial sensors, and IoT-edge hardware.

Automotive Semiconductors

Auto MCUs, SiC inverter chips, ADAS SoCs, and supplier-OEM dynamics.

Interactive · live

A working semiconductors & electronics dashboard.

Every commissioned semiconductors & electronics study ships as an interactive dashboard, size and trajectory, ranked share, regional cuts, segmentation. Hover every bar to see the underlying figure; every number is traceable to a named source.

Interactive dashboard · live
Global semiconductors · specimen
MRI · Q2 2026
Overview
2025 size · 2026–2036 forecast · committee-signed
$491B
2019
$513B
2020
$537B
2021
$561B
2022
$586B
2023
$612B
2024
$640B
2025
$919B forecast
2030
$1.42T forecast
2036
Revenue trajectory (historical 2020 – Q1 2026 · forecast 2026–2036)
Headline figures
2025 size
$640B
2036 forecast
$1.42T +8.3% CAGR
Confidence
High
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Strategic themes · this quarter

What is moving in Semiconductors & Electronics.

The priorities our research committee is tracking across the sector this quarter. Sub-sectors describe structure; themes describe motion. Reports commissioned against these themes ship with the latest signal-read baked in.

01

US–China export controls escalation

Node-threshold, equipment-class, and entity-list expansions; allied-block coordination.

02

TSMC US fab ramp

Arizona fab timelines, yield economics, and advanced-packaging capacity siting.

03

HBM capacity and AI-training demand

HBM3E/HBM4 capacity constraints; DRAM-maker capex-ROI; merchant-GPU share dynamics.

04

SiC automotive penetration

OEM SiC-inverter adoption, 800V architecture migration, and SiC-substrate supply economics.

05

Japan & Korea equipment restrictions

Allied-export-control alignment; second-tier equipment-supplier market-share gains.

06

Advanced-packaging share shift

TSMC CoWoS, Samsung SAINT-D, Intel Foveros, packaging capex outpacing front-end; OSAT (ASE, Amkor, SPIL) capacity economics and substrate-supplier bottleneck.

07

Automotive-grade chip oversupply unwind

Post-2022 over-ordering digesting through 2025 in mature-node auto MCUs; 2026 margin-recovery thesis for NXP / Infineon / STMicro / Renesas.

08

Chiplet standardisation and UCIe adoption

UCIe-ratified chiplet interconnect unlocking mix-and-match die sourcing; EDA-tool and advanced-packaging revenue pool implications.

In the library

Commissioned studies.

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Who uses this research

Role-tested in Semiconductors & Electronics.

The four teams that most commonly commission semiconductors & electronics research. Each role below maps to a specific use-case the commissioned study is scoped against, from diligence to annual planning.

Corporate Development · Semis

Logic, analog, and equipment acquisition diligence with supply-chain and export-control context.

Strategic Planning

Supply-chain mapping, capacity-siting analysis, and advanced-packaging capability assessment.

Venture Capital

Chiplet, EDA, compound-semi, and AI-hardware thesis validation.

Equity Research

Cycle-position, TAM re-estimation, and AI-training capex context for semi and equipment coverage.

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