Tag: Intel

September 6, 2023

Intel will provide foundry services and 300mm manufacturing capacity and Tower will use Intel’s fab in New Mexico. Tower will invest up to $300 million to acquire and own equipment and other fixed assets to be installed in the New […]

June 16, 2023

Intel agreed to build two fabs at Magdeburg costing €17 billion with subsidies from the German government of €6.8 billion but, earlier this year, Intel said that the cost of materials and energy had gone up and it needed a […]

February 1, 2023

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger and other managers are taking pay cuts, days after the chip maker posted quarterly earnings that disappointed Wall Street and spurred a downgrade in the company’s credit rating. Mr. Gelsinger, in the top job […]

January 27, 2023

“Clearly the financials aren’t what we hoped for, but we’re also pleased with the execution process we made,” said CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) “the macro is difficult. It was difficult in Q4. We expect it to remain difficult as we […]

January 12, 2023

Micron Technologies’ announcement to invest $100 billion in semiconductor factory facilities in Clay, NY outside Syracuse over the next 20 years has been named Business Facilities’ Platinum 2022 Deal of the Year. The projects recognized with Gold, Silver, and Bronze […]

December 19, 2022

Intel is delaying its German fab plans while asking for more government subsidies, reports the Volksstimme newspaper. The original plan was to run first silicon in the Magdeburg fab in H1 2023. According to the Volksstime, costs have risen for […]

September 26, 2022

The plant will cost €4.5 billion and is expected to employ 1,500 direct jobs and create 3,500 indirect jobs. It is due to come online in 2025-7. The Vigasio site is part of an $80 billion European investment programme by […]

September 8, 2022

Samsung drops to second place and Intel is expected to fall to third. IC Insights has reduced its worldwide IC market growth forecast for 2022 from 11% to 7%. The downgraded expectation for this year is almost entirely due to […]

August 5, 2022

As a consequence, TSMC is holding back its plans to build N3 capacity. TSMC’s suppliers of N3-related equipment have been notified of postponed orders and TSMC’s 2023 capex may be trimmed. Intel’s cancellations are said to have left Apple as […]

August 2, 2022

The US has already decreed in the Chips Act that companies taking money under the Act cannot make chips in China more advanced than 28nm for the next ten years – a provision which will affect both TSMC and Intel. […]

June 24, 2022

“We’re going slow and small or we’re going to go big and bold based on the Chips Act,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) told Bloomberg, “we’re committed to go build two fabs there. I don’t want a two-fab site there. […]

June 17, 2022

Four of the top 14 semiconductor companies (Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments) are expecting lower revenues in 2Q 2022 versus 1Q 2022. All four cited COVID-19 related lockdowns in China as a factor. China locked down several major cities […]

May 6, 2022

Intel continues to lead the R&D rankings, spending $15.2 billion on R&D last year., The top 10 raised spending 18% last year, and 21 companies invested $1 billion or more on R&D in 2021. Total R&D spending by semiconductor companies […]

April 7, 2022

The engagement establishes a Semiconductor Alliance to propose the foundation for a whole-of-nation approach for a more innovation-focused U.S. semiconductor industry and supply chain. The Semiconductor Alliance, led by MITRE Engenuity, was developed from working groups in 2021, and its […]

April 4, 2022

Collins Aerospace today announced its Perigon™ computer will be the first certified aviation solution to use the Intel Atom x6400E processor. The advanced processor will underpin Perigon’s ability to support customers’ next-gen flight control and vehicle management needs across a […]

February 21, 2022

In the Xeon range, starting in Q1 2022, the company will deliver Sapphire Rapids on Intel 7, bringing performance improvements across a range of workloads and targeting up to a 30x performance increase in AI alone. Coming in 2023 is […]

February 14, 2022

Called MSC C6B-ALP, typical applications for the 125 x 95mm boards will be automation, machine vision, AI, medical equipment, gaming, video processing and security systems, it said. Intel has split cores into two types for these processors: ‘performance’ and ‘efficient’. […]

January 24, 2022

The last time I was in Columbus, Ohio, I bought a very good book at a very cool bookstore and ran in the annual Columbus marathon. And lemme tell you, brother, I came in a lot closer to last place […]

January 21, 2022

Intel Corp. plans to invest at least $20 billion in new chip-making capacity in Ohio, according to a person familiar with the matter, bolstering the company’s semiconductor production ambitions as greater demand for digital products and a global chip shortage […]

January 20, 2022

TSMC’s 2022 capex budget of $40 billion surprised everyone but it’s only a smidgeon bigger than Samsung’s $37.8 billion budget while Intel’s, backed by Uncle Sam, isn’t going to fall too far behind. These are not the sort of figures […]