Tammy Kiely
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- Goldman Sachs7 min
The Semiconductor Shortage of 2021
Originating from pandemic-driven demand shocks rather than geopolitical tensions, the current semiconductor supply crunch has pushed industry lead times beyond the 14-week danger zone, severely constraining production of microcontrollers and power devices on older 28nm and 40nm nodes. Manufacturers face structural hurdles in expanding capacity due to limited incentives to invest in fully depreciated equipment and a two-year timeline required to construct new facilities, a situation exemplified by Toyota's resilience through pre-established resource planning. As the shortage persists through year-end with rising prices and order overshoot fueled by inventory stockpiling, the market risks a volatile transition where a V-shaped demand recovery could eventually be complicated by future oversupply conditions.
- Goldman Sachs47 min
"The Battle for Our Screens," Part 2: The Future of Work
Heather Bellini, Ryan Nolan, Tammy Kiely, Renee James, Jake Siewert, Heath Terry, Marco Argenti
The rapid acceleration of remote work has triggered a wholesale shift in enterprise infrastructure, compressing two years of digital transformation into mere months and driving a decisive move from legacy systems to cloud-based Unified Communications as a Service. While global knowledge workers and institutions like Goldman Sachs successfully navigated unprecedented usage spikes through virtualized desktops and hybrid collaboration tools, the market is now consolidating around "Enterprise 4.0" standards that prioritize distributed security, automated workflows, and a blended office model. This new paradigm is attracting significant capital inflows for Series A to IPO-stage companies, fundamentally reshaping real estate footprints and IT budget strategies toward operational expenditure and data insights at the edge.
- Goldman Sachs11 min
The Scale and State of the Semiconductor Industry
Facing a projected 10% semiconductor industry decline in 2020 driven by pandemic-induced global GDP contraction, market dynamics have diverged with robust cloud computing demand offsetting weakness in handsets and automotive sectors. While the supply chain demonstrated unexpected resilience outside of specific disruptions in Wuhan, Malaysia, and the Bay Area, geopolitical trade restrictions and US-China tensions continue to create significant regulatory uncertainty for major OEMs like Huawei. Simultaneously, competitive pressures have intensified as top buyers consolidate purchasing power and tech giants vertically integrate their chip designs, shifting the battlefield toward advanced manufacturing triopolies and diversified data center compute cycles.