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Tuesday 2 July 2024
Taiwan's leadership in chip manufacturing may not last forever: Father of FinFET
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is a pure-play foundry that has been enjoying leadership status in the advanced semiconductor manufacturing market in the world
Friday 28 June 2024
SiFive seizes opportunity in embedded solutions, seeing robust RISC-V growth
SiFive is seeing the golden opportunity to grow RISC-V adoption in the embedded solutions IP market while its competitor voluntarily retreats from the market
Monday 24 June 2024
Intel Foundry's 3nm process is catching up fast, should Samsung worry about it?
Samsung and Intel are trying to overtake TSMC, but TSMC chairman C. C. Wei's answer to that challenge is: "No way!"
Friday 21 June 2024
RISC-V's rapid growth and hurdles ahead: US-China tech tensions and ecosystem fragmentation
RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture, has garnered global attention due to its royalty-free nature and adaptability for custom hardware development
Friday 21 June 2024
From Brussels to the world: EU AI Act advisor on shaping the future of AI regulation
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament announced the passage of the "AI Act," a landmark piece of legislation set to be implemented in phases starting in mid-2025.
Wednesday 19 June 2024
Optical processors: UK startup Lumai revolutionizes AI compute stack for next-level performance
Lumai, a spin out from the University of Oxford, was founded by a team with expertise in optics over two years ago, aiming to develop a new type of AI processor
Wednesday 19 June 2024
Intel pitches foundry services to Chinese clients: can they use non-US fabs?
It is most peculiar to find Intel pitching customized process chip manufacturing services during an interview with Chinese media. Is the Intel Foundry also beckoning Chinese clients to produce Intel 3 chips for them
Tuesday 18 June 2024
Nvidia and AMD are winners of the 4 million units per year high-end GPU chip business
Nvidia dominates the market for AI chips for training and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) and its pricing power is reflected in gross margins as high as 78%, compared to competitors Intel and AMD's 41% and 47% gross margins, respectively, in the latest quarter. So how many high-end GPU chips did Nvidia sell
Monday 17 June 2024
HBM competition (3): the likely changes in the industry ecosystem
Before we discuss the possible impact of HBM4 standard interface on the DRAM industry, we need to review the current status of the DRAM industry
Monday 17 June 2024
Breaking barriers: Bay Photonics thrives as key player in Silicon Photonics evolution
Energy consumption issues and the heat generated by AI training and inference computing have the semiconductor industry looking for Silicon Photonics partners such as Bay Photonics to develop solutions to solve the problems
Monday 17 June 2024
Partnership with Google TPU is logical choice for Apple to fuel computing power demand of Apple Intelligence
According to a recent Reuters report, Apple's "Apple Intelligence" technology has been rumored to use Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerators for early-stage training, illustrating the close cooperation between Apple and Google in the AI sector. Apple may even be using Google Cloud services
Friday 14 June 2024
PurismEV leverages vehicle control to extend EV range by 40%
As most EV industry players focus on improving battery technology to mitigate range anxiety, PurismEV has found an alternative. The Taiwan-based startup targets vehicle control. Its AI Energy Efficiency System can boost an electric two-wheeler's range by 40%
Thursday 13 June 2024
Apple doesn't want OpenAI partnership to overshadow Apple Intelligence
At WWDC 2024, Apple announced "Apple Intelligence," adding its own branding to the terminology of artificial intelligence (AI)
Thursday 13 June 2024
Elephantech seeks strategic partners for sustainable PCB manufacturing in response to surging demand
Elephantech Inc., the first company in the world to successfully manufacture Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) using metal inkjet printing, is seeking strategic partners to scale up manufacturing in light of rising demand
Thursday 13 June 2024
HBM competition (2): The choice of HBM's next steps?
It is important to know how individual memory companies choose to develop their High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology for future competitions
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