Semiconductor industry and market

In the semiconductor market, what is the phenomenon called in which booms and busts repeat periodically due to the balance of supply and demand?

  1. AMoore's law
  2. BSilicon cycle
  3. CDennard scaling
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Answer: B. Silicon cycle

The silicon cycle refers to periodic booms and busts in which capital investment to meet rising demand leads to oversupply a few years later, followed by falling prices and curtailed investment, and then shortages again. Its period has been said to be roughly four years.

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