The third quarter is coming to an end, but that doesn’t stop the specialists TrendForce Summarize the second one. They found that the total revenue of the top ten integrated circuit developers rose 12.5% to $38.1 billion over the past...
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The Taiwanese company TSMC is preparing three sites in different parts of the island for the production of 2nm components, but current rumors indicate a possible slowdown in the implementation of such projects. At least one of the companies aiming...
Huawei was able to develop custom cores for the 7nm Kirin 9000S processor despite sanctions pressure
An analysis of the acclaimed Mate 60 Pro smartphone platform shows that Huawei has achieved a technological breakthrough with the independent development of semiconductor chips. Four of the eight cores in the system-on-chip (SoC) of the Mate 60 Pro...
According to industry association SEMI, productivity of 200 mm silicon wafers will increase by 14% from 2023 to 2026 inclusive, to a record 7.7 million silicon wafers per month. During this period, 12 new companies will be created and their total...
In October last year, US sanctions restricted the supply of equipment to China that allows the production of solid-state memory with more than 128 layers, and two months earlier the Chinese company YMTC introduced its 232-layer 3D NAND chips to the...
The appearance of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone based on the HiSilicon Kirin 9000S processor, which, as Canadian experts suggest, is made using 7nm technology, discouraged American officials, and an investigation launched by the US Department of...
As a member of the RE100 initiative, the Taiwanese company TSMC has made certain commitments to switch to the use of energy from renewable sources and achieve carbon neutrality. Recently the company announced about its willingness to accelerate this...
Apple management once attended the groundbreaking ceremony for TSMC’s advanced silicon wafer processing facility in Arizona and made no secret of the company’s interest in American-made chips. At the same time, from conversations with...
Surpluses of certain types of semiconductor components and the weakness of the macroeconomy this year will lead their manufacturers to reduce their production volumes and reduce their own costs of purchasing technological equipment. The latter...
Back in 2021, GlobalFoundries announced plans to spend around $4 billion to expand its manufacturing base in Singapore, and this week the new line was officially launched. The introduction of additional capacity will increase the productivity of the...
According to the official press releases, Intel has so far managed to win at least four well-known contract customers. If MediaTek settles for less sophisticated technical processes, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Ericsson are aiming to obtain chips...
In the computing accelerator segment, NVIDIA’s main production partner remains TSMC, whose management recently admitted that it will not be able to fully meet demand for such services until the end of next year. NVIDIA isn’t going to sit...
In July, it became known that the TSMC project to build factories in Arizona will be delayed, and the first of two factories will start producing chips using N4 technology no earlier than 2025. This means that competitor Samsung Electronics can...
About 10 of Arm’s key customers and partners are considering becoming major investors in the developer’s IPO, with the potential to collectively spend up to $735 million on the company’s stock, but few of the...
The calls made the night before by American parliamentarians to understand the origin of the HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, an advanced processor by Chinese standards, have achieved their goal. The US Department of Commerce, which is generally responsible...
Experts have repeatedly expressed the opinion that the volume of production of the same NVIDIA computational accelerators for artificial intelligence systems is now limited not by TSMC’s capabilities in processing silicon wafers, but by its...
So far, industry sources with varying degrees of certainty have mostly spoken of Apple being on TSMC’s customer list 3nm process technology. This week, MediaTek decided to “step out of the shadows,” admitting that 3nm Dimensity...
When the first reviews of the new flagship Huawei Mate 60 Pro with a complete “dismantling” appeared, more and more opinions sounded that the Chinese giant somehow managed to bypass US sanctions that have prevented it from receiving advanced...
Lithographic machines that combine operation with ultra-hard ultraviolet (EUV) radiation and high numerical aperture (high NA) are a necessary tool for mastering the so-called “Angstrom” engineering processes with standards below 2 nm, i...
September 1, loud BloombergOn the island of Hokkaido in Japan, a groundbreaking ceremony took place here for the company of the young company Rapidus, which will establish the production of 2 nm products on behalf of third-party customers by 2027...
