American authorities’ lack of concern about the ability of Chinese companies to source lithography equipment from Japan has long been based on the assumption that local manufacturers provide solutions primarily for sophisticated lithography...
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The joint venture between TSMC, Sony and Denso, which is being developed in southwestern Japan, is scheduled to begin producing series products next year. In the future, it will master the production of 28nm and 12nm components, but the matter will...
Intel Corporation is trying to become a significant player in the chip contract manufacturing market, but is in no hurry to name the key customers it has managed to attract. In general, the Intel boss assumes that Amazon, Google, Microsoft...
From a purely formal perspective, Samsung Electronics was not only several months ahead of TSMC in implementing 3nm process technology, but also significantly ahead of its competitors in switching to the use of circular gate transistors (GAAFET)...
On the eve of the anniversary of the introduction by US authorities of restrictions on the supply of certain types of equipment for the production of chips to China, South Korean memory manufacturers managed to extend indefinitely the exemption for...
So far, US authorities, represented by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, tend to believe that China is unable to produce chips using 7nm technology in large quantities. External analysts expect Huawei’s partners to produce 33 million of these...
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics remained the world’s largest memory chip maker, but was the longest to withstand the overproduction crisis that accompanied the end of the pandemic. The company began to reduce production volumes of NAND...
So far, activity in building semiconductor factories in Europe that could be eligible for subsidies under the country’s “chip law” has mainly been shown by companies from other parts of the world, such as Intel and TSMC. The...
To assess the profitability of semiconductor component production, conveyor utilization is an important indicator that determines the company’s profit margin and the need for further capacity expansion. At companies that process silicon wafers...
Despite the active purchase of foreign equipment that is not yet subject to sanctions from Chinese chipmakers and some progress in import substitution, the local semiconductor industry still cannot boast of having a sufficient production base for...
As industry sources have already noted, the implementation of the Japanese TSMC project is progressing much faster than the American one, and there are a number of reasons for this. Now the company is already starting to install devices in a joint...
Canadian company Tenstorrent strengthened its leadership team in December 2020 with the addition of legendary processor designer Jim Keller, who initially served as CTO and became CEO in January 2023. As it turns out, Samsung Electronics will not...
About a year ago, American authorities introduced new restrictions on the supply of certain types of chip manufacturing equipment to China, and also banned the supply of computer accelerators with a certain level of performance. Now US officials are...
The Chinese company Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), a leading semiconductor manufacturer in the country, has increased its raw material purchases from its Taiwanese partners. This became known after the company delivered the...
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, according to Nikkei Asian Review, decided to allocate about $13.4 billion to subsidize the domestic semiconductor industry over the next two years. Micron Technology’s Hiroshima plant will...
Micron has begun testing 128GB DDR5 modules with 32Gbit memory chips. The chips are assembled in a monolithic package without stacking technology. The release of monolithic 32Gb DDR5 chips paves the way for promising 1TB memory modules for servers...
The Chinese industry needs import substitution at the level of equipment for the production of semiconductor components, as sanctions from the USA, Japan and the Netherlands begin to restrict the supply of even not the most advanced imported...
The expansion of Ireland’s Intel facilities has been plagued by challenges and delays during the pandemic. Some local employees were sent on long, unpaid leave in December last year, but the first EUV lithography scanner installed at the fab...
The Chinese company Yingren Technology, known outside the Middle Kingdom under the InnoGrit brand, announced the start of mass production of the first PCIe 5.0 SSD controller developed in the country – the YR S900 model, designed for corporate...
Intel has taken four to five years to build the first phase of its production complex in Magdeburg, Germany, but the significant investments (up to 30 billion euros) and long waiting times will have to be compensated for by the introduction of...
