Already in 2021, the poor financial situation of the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales forced the owners to agree to a deal with the Chinese-controlled Dutch company Nexperia, but in November 2022 the British authorities decided that the deal had to be...
microchip production
When it finally became clear in late September that SMIC could be involved in releasing the HiSilicon Kirin 9000S 7nm mobile processors for the latest Huawei Mate 60 smartphones, some investors predicted quarterly revenue of $1.64 billion. In...
At the quarterly reporting event, ASML management said that in the third quarter, revenue from shipments of lithography equipment to China accounted for 46% of total revenue. Statistics from Chinese customs authorities also confirm that local ASML...
At Intel’s recent Innovation Day event, CEO Patrick Gelsinger explained how important collaboration with Arm and its customers could be to the company’s contract manufacturing ambitions. Arm licensees already generate a significant...
The nominally American company GlobalFoundries still counts Arab investors among its shareholders, who control 89.4% of its capital, but this does not prevent it from winning defense contracts in the United States. At the last quarterly conference...
On October 1, NXP Semiconductors closed its third quarter with revenue of $3.43 billion, beating analysts’ expectations of $3.4 billion. Proof of the revival in demand for smartphones was NXP’s steady 33% revenue growth in the mobile...
In the middle of last month, the Japanese company Canon began supplying customers with equipment for printing 5nm chips without photolithography. This month, representatives of the Japanese manufacturer said that such devices would be about ten...
Last month it was revealed that TSMC was unable to obtain land to build a future advanced silicon wafer processing plant on a server in Taiwan due to opposition from local residents. Experts explain that by 2024-2025, TSMC will be forced to decide...
From January 1 next year, the Dutch holding ASML will lose the ability to supply to China part of its lithography scanners designed to work with DUV technology, but other equipment for sophisticated technological processes will be launched this year...
This week, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics told investors its immediate plans to transition to production of products using new stages of its lithography technologies. Products using the second generation of 3nm process technology (SF3) as...
As the largest supplier of HBM memory chips, the South Korean company SK hynix has so far retained the exclusive rights to supply NVIDIA accelerators for artificial intelligence systems. Current statistics show that the company is overwhelmed with...
In the most recent quarter, Intel managed to exceed its own expectations in terms of revenue, profit margin and earnings per share. In the client segment, revenue grew 16% quarter-over-quarter, exceeding management expectations for the third quarter...
The Chinese company YMTC has been on the US export control list since December last year, so its management knows firsthand the consequences of US sanctions. The company’s chief executive, Chen Nanxiang, now leads a Chinese industry...
According to TrendForce, high inflation has led to a decline in demand for consumer electronics. This brings global DRAM sales to $17.3 billion in 2022, down 4.6% year-on-year. The financial performance of different DRAM memory module manufacturers...
About 90% of the RAM produced worldwide is now supplied by three companies, two of which (Samsung and SK Hynix) are from South Korea and the third is from the USA – Micron Technology. At the same time, the US share of the global memory market...
This week’s changes to U.S. export controls aim to further restrict the supply of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and industry experts expect they will ban Chinese manufacturers from producing 28nm products. The US deputy...
Tightened sanctions from the USA, Japan and the Netherlands, which are the world leaders in the lithography equipment market, are forcing Chinese semiconductor manufacturers to increasingly turn to their compatriots for such products, and the share...
President and Head of Memory Division of Samsung Electronics Jung-Bae Lee reported in its blog that the company will begin mass production of 9th generation 3D NAND memory with more than 300 layers in early 2024. This leads us to expect new and more...
Since 2014, Samsung Electronics has been building its production site in the Chinese city of Xi’an and currently provides up to 40% of the production volume of 3D NAND memory chips of this brand, but only in the 128-layer design. Samsung will...
The production of 3D NAND memory, which uses a spatial arrangement with vertical connections between layers in chips, requires specialized equipment and has so far been entirely controlled by the American company Lam Research. The Japanese company...
