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...
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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...
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...
on the technological Deutsche Bank conferences Intel’s interests were represented by CEO Patrick Gelsinger, who at the event paid close attention to the company’s prospects of becoming one of the largest contract chipmakers. According to...
Taiwanese company TSMC has been supplying customers with first-generation 3nm chips for several months, Apple is expected to receive the bulk of them, and the situation will not change until the end of this year, according to informed sources. Intel...
In the context of the pandemic, there is not much room left on the conveyor for mass-produced and at the same time not very profitable autochip manufacturers, so many automakers began to suffer from their shortage. Based on this experience, the...
At the end of last year, the top 10 chipmakers invested a record $146.1 billion to expand and modernize their businesses. This year, the amount is set to be reduced by 16% to $122 billion, for the first time since 2019 and the sharpest in the...
China’s semiconductor industry relies heavily on imported high-tech equipment, which the United States, Japan and the Netherlands are using to curb the growth of China’s technological power. At the same time, experts predict that Chinese...
In early 2022, Intel announced its intention to buy Israeli contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion. Since then, the deal has been approved by antitrust authorities of various countries and regions after stalling, in line with a bad...
July statistics showed that China’s integrated circuit production volume grew for the fourth straight month, but the growth rate is slowing amid a slow economic recovery and the maintenance of elevated product inventories. In seven months of...
The Intel 18A’s state-of-the-art manufacturing process is a few years away from commercialization, but the company is already actively mentioning future customers who will use it. This week Intel and Synopsys reportedthat the latter’s...
A year ago it seems ReutersThe President of the United States signed the so-called “Chip Act”, which provides for a total of 52.7 billion US dollars in subsidies for the national semiconductor industry. Applications from applicants were...
China’s semiconductor industry is being forced to function in the face of tougher sanctions, so the fall in imports of core components to China this year may not only highlight the local economy’s slow recovery from the pandemic. In the...
Manufacturers of semiconductor components in the PRC enjoy financial support from the government, however, these funds are not enough for stable development, which is why some of them regularly attract funds on the stock exchange. Hua Hong...
Global chipmakers like Intel and Samsung say the semiconductor market is nearing the end of its overstock problem, although the outlook for demand from customers outside of the AI industry remains bleak. Chip glut started to fall, mainly due to...
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...
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...