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Thursday 25 July 2024
Chip giants clash: TSMC's Foundry 2.0 takes on Intel's IDM 2.0
With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) proposing its Foundry 2.0 model, some industry experts compare it with Intel's IDM 2.0. However, the challenges Intel faces...
Wednesday 24 July 2024
Who will benefit from a potential tariff war on chips?
With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) chairman C. C. Wei promising to carry through overseas expansion plans regardless of the next US President, those securing TSMC's...
Monday 22 July 2024
Why didn't SK On make a profit in any of the 10 quarters since its establishment?
The SK Group views EV-related businesses as a key growth area for the future, which is why its battery subsidiary SK On invested over KRW20 trillion (US$14.5 billion) to expand its...
Thursday 18 July 2024
Debunking Trump's misconceptions on Taiwan's role in the global chip industry
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, claimed that Taiwan had taken 100% of the chip business from the US without...
Thursday 18 July 2024
Players' cards in AI server assembly market
Generative AI continues to fuel global server business potential spreading like wildfire. Taiwanese manufacturers dominate the global AI server assembly industry, representing as...
Wednesday 17 July 2024
China's counter-intuitive semiconductor exports surge goes unnoticed
China's aggressive automotive exports caught the world's attention, hitting a record high in the first half of 2024 but starting to slow down after tariffs imposed by Europe and the...
Tuesday 16 July 2024
Granted one more chance by SoftBank, focus is now on Graphcore's future operational strategy
With the current boom of generative AI, British AI chip unicorn Graphcore should've enjoyed the dividends from AI. Instead, it found itself struggling.
Friday 12 July 2024
Potential trade war as China prepares countermeasures against EU tariffs on EVs
The European Union has announced additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on electric vehicles from China.
Tuesday 9 July 2024
Largan navigates AI challenges, diversifies portfolio amid shifting smartphone lens market
Largan Precision, a leading smartphone lens manufacturer, is facing challenges due to the increasing influence of AI in the smartphone market and its impact on talent recruitment...
Monday 8 July 2024
Innolux's transformation journey: from display panel to advanced semiconductor packaging
Innolux Corporation, a leading display panel manufacturer, is undergoing a significant transformation as it ventures into the semiconductor field with its Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging...
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.
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...
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
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,...