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Friday 14 June 2024
MKS Instruments expands to Malaysia with new Penang plant, supporting chip production
American semiconductor company MKS Instruments has announced plans to build a manufacturing plant in Penang, Malaysia, to support wafer fabrication equipment production both regionally...
Friday 14 June 2024
Synopsys certifies AI design flows on Samsung 2nm
Synopsys has announced that its AI-driven digital design and analog design flows have achieved certification on Samsung Foundry's SF2 process with multiple test chip tape-outs.
Friday 14 June 2024
Beijing municipal government fund invests in AI chip developer Kunlunxin
Kunlunxin, a spin-off of Baidu's chip and architecture department, has just received investments from Beijing's Municipal AI Industry Investment Fund. It is the sixth AI-related investment...
Friday 14 June 2024
AI chip vendors approach OSATs for possible FOPLP support
Fan-out panel-level (FOPLP) packaging is gaining attention from semiconductor firms seeking extra capacity support, and two AI chip companies are in talks with OSATs about potential...
Friday 14 June 2024
Taiwan anticipates Goldilocks economy in 2024 while closely monitoring uncertainties in China
Taiwan's Central Bank announced to raise the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate forecast for the entire year of 2024 to 3.77% in the second quarter's quarterly Monetary Policy...
Friday 14 June 2024
SEMI to launch first SEMICON India in September
SEMI will hold its first SEMICON India, with Japan-based semiconductor equipment suppliers attending. An analyst believes the market lies in IC backend business rather than wafer...
Friday 14 June 2024
Chipmakers brace for TSMC price increases
IC design houses are bracing for TSMC's forthcoming price increases.
Thursday 13 June 2024
Samsung unveils chip technology road map to win AI business
Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled several forthcoming advancements to its technology aimed at luring makers of AI chips to its manufacturing business.
Thursday 13 June 2024
Rapidus anticipates achieving a US$6.4 bln revenue target by 2030
Rapidus chairman Tetsuro Higashi said the Japanese pure-play foundry that aims to mass-produce 2nm chips could achieve its revenue target 10 years earlier than planned, as the AI...
Thursday 13 June 2024
India reportedly seeks to limit Chinese participation in Indian subsidiaries, woos Taiwanese investments
India reportedly plans to continue its restrictive policy against Chinese investments as local manufacturers are hoping to leverage technological expertise from China to build a local...
Thursday 13 June 2024
China accounts for half of Japan's chip equipment exports for 3 quarters in a row
China's demand for Japanese semiconductor equipment has been growing rapidly amidst the export sanction imposed by the US on advanced semiconductor equipment and technologies.
Thursday 13 June 2024
China-based National Silicon Industry to double wafer production capacity to foster self-reliant chip ecosystem
National Silicon Industry, the top wafer provider in China by market share, announced a plan to double its wafer production as the country has been growing its self-reliant semiconductor...
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.
Thursday 13 June 2024
Audix to see high-margin manufacturing biz climb
IC distributor and OEM Audix held its shareholder meeting on June 12, during which Audix Group chairman and president Chung Yuan-Kai shared his optimistic outlook for 5G NR/6G communications,...
Thursday 13 June 2024
Taiwan data center expansions heap pressure on electricity supply
Taiwan is expected to witness a significant surge in the number of data centers and supercomputers in the next few years, which will result in high electricity consumption.