Tag: chip

March 8, 2024

In Q3, the company plans to tape out its first large language model chip and, in Q1 2025, intends to IMG_0296-150×150.webpmake it available to early customers. Taalas has raised $50 million dollars over two rounds of funding led by Pierre […]

February 20, 2024

In Taiwan last year, IC industry production value fell 10.2% to $139.2 billion, the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center said. This year, the Taiwan IC manufacturing sector is expected to grow 16.6% to $98.7 billion led by TSMC with sales […]

January 29, 2024

Investments in fab by TSMC, Bosch, NXP and Infineon are “good for the European car industry but it’s not enough. It’s not enough at all,” says Wennink, “if you want to get to 20%, you just have to calculate how […]

January 11, 2024

Two Congressmen have written to US Secretary for Commerce, Gina Raimondo, expressing concern that China is “on track to flood the United States and global markets with foundational semiconductors.” By ‘foundational’ they mean chips made on older nodes than 28nm. […]

December 12, 2023

New York state will spend $1 billion to expand research into chip technology in Albany, the state’s capital, with the goal of turning the region into a global center of semiconductor research and manufacturing, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Dec. 11. […]

October 18, 2023

The US has also extended the ban to over 40 countries which are seen as likely to buy the chips for re-sale to China. “Today’s updated rules will increase effectiveness of our controls and further shut off pathways to evade […]

May 30, 2023

Early last week, China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, after a meeting m Korean Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun, said the two countries had agreed to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on semiconductor industry supply chains. However, a Korean government statement on the […]

March 31, 2023

It will include etch, cleaning, deposition and litho among 23 different types of equipment. All immersion litho machines are included in the restrictions. “We are fulfilling our responsibility as a technological nation to contribute to international peace and stability,” said […]

February 6, 2023

If the pact also includes a ban on Western technicians going over to China to keep installed machines running, then existing China semiconductor operations will be severely affected. The pact is a smart move by the Americans who, no doubt, […]

November 17, 2022

The U.K. government said a Chinese-owned company must unwind its acquisition of a British computer-chip factory more than a year after the takeover was completed because the deal posed a risk to national security. In a decision published late Wednesday, […]

October 28, 2022

At that time, the strength of the emerging semiconductor industry in mainland China looked likely to be in design and development rather than manufacturing. “We have a team in mainland China trying to understand market needs and the requirements of […]

October 13, 2022

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSM 5.55%▲ cut its capital expenditure forecast by about 10% this year, despite reporting a record quarterly profit surge, responding to headwinds including slowing global chip demand and rising costs. The world’s largest contract chip maker […]

October 12, 2022

South Korean memory-chip maker SK Hynix Inc. 000660 4.21%▲ received a one-year exemption from new U.S. restrictions blocking exports of advanced chips and related equipment to China, a sign of Washington’s willingness to offer reprieves that help minimize potential disruption […]

September 22, 2022

The semiconductor market dropped 0.8% in 2Q 2022 versus 1Q 2022, according to WSTS. The 2Q 2022 decline followed a 0.5% quarter-to-quarter decline in 1Q 2022. The 2Q 2022 revenues of the top 15 semiconductor suppliers match the overall market […]

September 12, 2022

“Global semiconductor sales remained strong in July, easily topping the total from last July, but market growth has slowed substantially in recent months, with year-to-year sales increases dropping into the single digits for the first time since December 2020,” says […]

August 1, 2022

The three men are: the former Minister of Industry and Information Technology – Xiao Yaqing – the head of the National Integrated Circuit Fund (often called the ‘Big Fund’) Ding Wenwu – and the former chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup – […]

July 27, 2022

The U.S. medical device industry hailed the Senate vote today to appropriate $280 billion over several years to increase domestic production of computer chips, including a special fund to ensure the production of older generation chips used in many medical […]

July 19, 2022

Which is why the US Chips Act may get passed this week. Maybe even today. Up to now, non-manufacturing chip design companies have been playing silly buggers with the Chips Act asking for hand-outs when the whole purpose of the […]

May 23, 2022

The past few years have proved challenging for the auto manufacturing industry. Automakers faced a slew of obstacles amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but few were as far-reaching and disruptive as the chip shortage. Median semiconductor inventories fell from 40 days […]

February 27, 2022

The U.S. share of global semiconductor-manufacturing capacity has declined sharply over the past three decades, fueling concerns about American reliance on imports for chips that are crucial to the economy and national security. In an effort to reverse that decline, […]