TSMC has entered the mass production of 3nm chips with yields in excess of 70%. And as a rule, customers pay for all plates and chips, including defective ones. According to the AppleInsider portal, citing a report by The Information, Apple only...
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In the first quarter of 2022, Intel announced its intention to buy the assets of Israeli specialty chip maker Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion. Now the fate of the deal depends on the decision of China’s antimonopoly authorities, which has...
The initiative to subsidize the development of the semiconductor industry in Europe has long since turned from a draft law into a ready-made legislative act, in the first half of this month it was approved by local parliamentarians, and this week...
Last Sunday, the Japanese government expanded its export control rules for semiconductor component manufacturing equipment, adding 23 more types of exported goods to the sanctions list. In fact, these measures made it impossible for Chinese...
At a recent quarterly conference, TSMC management had to admit that the company cannot fully meet the demand for chip packaging and test services at the moment and the situation may not normalize until the end of next year, but for this the company...
A few years ago, the development of the Japanese semiconductor industry in terms of the practical application of lithography stopped somewhere at the 40nm turn, as all the more advanced electronic devices were manufactured outside the country...
Macroeconomic difficulties do not prevent the German authorities from soberly assessing the risks associated with the local industry’s dependence on the supply of semiconductor components, as the pandemic with its chip shortages has learned...
For a year and a half, Intel has been proclaiming literally on every corner that it wants to regain its technology leadership in the field of lithography by 2025. By that time, it will master the Intel 18A process, and a year earlier, as part of the...
The so-called second generation of the 3nm process technology carried out by TSMC usually appeared in the Taiwanese company’s internal documents under the designation N3E and was tied for implementation in the second half of 2023. At the last...
AMD CEO Lisa Su traveled Asia this week and when she spoke in the Taiwan capital earlier in the week, she ended up in the Japanese capital, where she admitted in an interview with local media that the need to diversify risks is forcing the company...
TSMC not only processes silicon wafers in-house, but also tests and assembles chips into packages when it comes to products with complex spatial arrangements. This phase of the contract manufacturing of chips for artificial intelligence systems is...
TSMC executives angered investors with several statements at yesterday’s quarterly event. As the company is the largest contract manufacturer of semiconductor components, its assessment of the current state of the market can have a major...
The decision made in December last year to start construction of a second contract manufacturing facility in the USA was not easy for TSMC. Requests for subsidies were directed to American partners whenever possible, while the company’s medium...
Many industry analysts expected TSMC’s second-quarter revenue to fall nearly 14% due to ongoing unfavorable market conditions. In fact, TSMC’s revenue fell 13.7% year over year to $15.68 billion, within the company’s own guidance...
By 2025, Intel hopes to master the manufacture of components using proprietary 18A process technology, officially regaining its technology leadership in lithography. It is planned to produce profile chips at two new plants under construction in Ohio...
Excitement about improving the quality of Samsung’s 4nm products has shifted to discussions about the company’s plans to attract new customers to its contract business. According to various sources, AMD, Google and even Tesla are already...
TSMC is due to release its second-quarter results this week, but industry analysts polled by Reuters are already providing their own forecasts for the company’s key performance indicators for the period ahead of this event. According to them...
Late last week, news broke that chip imports to China fell 18% in the first half of this year, largely due to sanctions imposed by the US and its foreign policy allies. According to the latest statistics from Chinese government agencies...
The flash memory market has not yet reached equilibrium as supply far exceeds demand and prices are naturally falling. In this situation, the willingness of the Chinese company YMTC to raise prices for its 3D NAND products seems strange, but...
According to the terms of the 2020 deal between Intel and SK hynix, the Korean side must pay the American company $2 billion by March 2025, and also take full operational control of the company in Dalian, China, which produces 3D NAND flash memory ...
