The US government has started to expand the ban on semiconductor equipment exports to China to include equipment under 14nm processing nodes and memory manufacturing tools in August,...
Competition between CATL and BYD, China's two largest lithium iron phosphate (LFP) power battery makers, has intensified as the new energy vehicle market continues to expand, and...
Achieving supply chain net zero is a parody of The Three Little Pigs. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success, urged Deloitte's senior manager of Risk Management...
AMD has made quarterly share gains in the serve market consecutively for three years, according to Mercury Research. It made its largest quarterly gain in second-quarter...
Semiconductor companies throughout the world are already short of engineers to operate their current supply chains. How will new fabs to be built in the next few years find enough...
The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule on August 12 to impose restrictions on four emerging and fundamental technologies,...
As SoftBank posted a record JPY3.16 trillion (US$23.5 billion) loss in Q1FY22, prompting it to offload half of its holdings in the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Its subsidiary...
Demand for materials analysis (MA) and reliability analysis (RA) services remains robust for chips built using advanced process manufacturing and advanced packaging, according to...
In the post-industrial era, globalization and efficient management have given everyone a deep understanding of the 80/20 rule. Each of us understands that 80% of the added value may...
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released Q2 2022 worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$152.5 billion, up 13.3% on year and increased 0.5% from the first quarter...
Following the subsidies to TSMC's 300mm fab in Kumamoto and TSMC's 3DIC R&D center in Ibaraki, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has lately announced plans...
With Intel and Samsung Electronics making frequent moves to target their common competitor TSMC, the media may be able to observe the changes in the industry from a different perspective,...
Following the escalation of US tech export restriction on semiconductor equipment to cover processing tools for 14 nm and below, which has been confirmed by two American equipment...