Bulk CMOS, FD-SOI and finFETs all on tap as big players vie for differentiation. But where will chipmakers go after 28nm?

ITRI received three 2018 R&D 100 Awards on November 16 in Orlando, Florida. ITRI's technologies were selected as winners for innovation in the Software/Services, IT/Electrical, and Mechanical Devices/Materials categories.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is poised to secure a crucial order from IBM for premium server chips, validating the company as a serious challenger to global chipmaker Intel in the high-value data center market.

Dialog Semiconductor said on Wednesday it was not seeing a hit to demand from its main customer, Apple, after some suppliers issued profit warnings due to weakness in iPhone sales.

Larry Kudlow confirms that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has restarted trade talks with his Chinese counterpart

The U.S. decision to cut off a Chinese state-backed chipmaker from U.S. suppliers amid allegations the firm stole intellectual property breaks World Trade Organization rules and aims to protect a U.S. monopoly, China told a WTO meeting on Tuesday.

"It is alarming to uncover that producers are labelling black powders as graphene and selling them for top dollar, while in reality, they contain mostly cheap graphite"

Blockchains can be used to create "smart contracts" to guarantee other agreements between two parties.

An earlier 5G-only modem, the XMM 8060, "is becoming a development platform" rather than a commercial product, said an Intel spokeswoman. Thus Intel "will miss the 2019 5G launches, but it is targeting large-scale rollouts from customers such as Apple and [partner] Spreadtrum," said Malik Saadi, vice president of strategic technologies for market watcher ABI Research.

Arm will ease up its investment in research and development after two years of rapid growth even as it pushes to meet ambitious targets of doubling its UK headcount by 2021.

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies took a further multi-million euro provision to cover a legal dispute, overshadowing strong quarterly results and an upbeat outlook to send its shares sharply lower on Monday.

Shares in iPhone parts supplier Lumentum plunged after the maker of optical devices on Monday cut its fiscal second-quarter revenue guidance by roughly 17% and its profit outlook by 25%. The slashed guidance sent down shares in presumed customer Apple.

Infineon Technologies has acquired Siltectra, a start-up based in Dresden. A purchase price of EUR124 million was agreed on with the venture capital investor MIG Fonds, the main shareholder.

Xilinx has hired Barclays to advise on a bid to acquire Mellanox after approaching the chipmaker with an offer, according to people familiar with the matter, continuing a trend of consolidation in the semiconductor industry.

Amazon Web Services will begin using AMD's processors

A report from Fast Company says that Apple will go ahead with using Intel modems for the first 5G iPhone, set to launch in 2020.

U.S. semiconductor supplier Broadcom has made a patent claim for more than $1 billion against Volkswagen.

China has promised to further cut import tariffs and open its economy as it tries to address criticisms that its trade practices are "unfair".

The mediation committee for the dispute between Samsung Electronics and its former employees suffering from work-related illnesses announced the finalized settlement for the two parties, with the plan including compensation of up to 150 million won (US$132,000) per illness.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against two companies based in China and Taiwan and three individuals.

Intel's exclusive deal to provide modem chips for new iPhones has strained its ability to supply such longtime personal computer partners as Taiwan's Acer and Asustek Computer, which face shortages of a key component heading into the year-end shopping season, industry sources said.

The company posted KRW 65.46 trillion in consolidated quarterly revenue, up 5.5 percent from a year earlier, and KRW 17.57 trillion in quarterly operating profit, up 20.9 percent.

Samsung Electronics slashed 2018 capex by more than a quarter on Wednesday and warned of lower profit until early next year, calling an end to a two-year boom in memory chips that fueled record third-quarter profit.

The Chinese currency - the yuan - is flirting with the 7 mark against the US dollar, a level it hasn't seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. The movements in the yuan are closely monitored, not least because the currency is a flashpoint in the US and China's trade war.

Israeli chip manufacturer TowerJazz on Monday reported lower quarterly net profit and forecast fourth quarter revenue below expectations, citing overall market weakness.

US official fears supply chain attack on US military systems.

More than 70 percent of U.S. firms operating in southern China are considering delaying further investment there and moving some or all of their manufacturing to other countries as the trade war bites into profits.

The companies will accelerate the adoption of EUV lithography for high-volume production, including the current latest available equipment for EUV (0.33 Numerical Aperture, NA). Moreover, they will explore the potential of the next-generation high-NA EUV lithography to enable printing of even smaller nanoscale devices advancing semiconductor scaling towards the post 3nm logic node.

Intel said its making progress on improving 10nm yields and reiterated its pledge to have 10nm chips shipping by the 2019 holiday season.

Wingtech will indirectly own 75.86 percent of Nexperia as a result of the deals.

Pichai said 48 employees have been terminated for sexual misconduct over the last two years.

Intel is denying a new report that claims the chipmaker is abandoning its 10 nanometer manufacturing process following years of delays.

Shares in AMS fell as much as 31.5 percent Tuesday, the steepest intraday decline since January 11, 2008.

Qualcomm has announced with Samsung Electronics that they are working together to develop 5G small cells - opening the door for massive 5G network speed, capacity, coverage and ultra-low latency.

Super Micro Computer says it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report.

Philips Lighting is seeing double-digit growth in India, which is among the top five markets in the world for the global company, and poised to rise to the third rank, Eric Rondolat, its global CEO said.

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Samsung Electronics has announced its acquisition of Zhilabs, known for its AI-based network and service analytics, to further enhance its 5G capabilities. The acquisition lays the foundation for Samsung to foster its 5G offerings of automation and network analytics to finely tune the customer experiences in the 5G era.

Semiconductors are key components for the IoT, connecting the real with the digital world now evolving to cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) functionality.