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Last week at the Gartner Semiconductor Briefing held at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Gartner Research Director Sam Wang presented a forecast for the way new IC process technologies will diffuse into the manufacturing mix. The chart he presented (see below) has some really interesting information. Emphasizing the point he made that I covered last week (See “Gartner’s Sam Wang tosses down the 28nm Silicon Realization gauntlet to IC design houses”), Wang’s chart shows that 40nm and 28nm designs will consume about 25% of the world’s IC foundry capacity by 2014.