While SEMICON Japan 2024 highlighted 3DIC and advanced packaging equipment essential for artificial intelligence (AI) chips, the event saw fewer physical machinery demonstrations...
The global wafer foundry landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation. TSMC maintains its dominance in advanced nodes below 7 nanometers, while competitors Samsung and Intel...
The Chinese semiconductor industry faces a significant market correction as wafer fabs prepare for a downturn in 2025 amid oversupply concerns, causing substantial impacts across...
Rapidus shared progress on its 2-nanometer (nm) chip production preparations at SEMICON Japan 2024, highlighting its innovative AI-enabled overhead transport system. The company remains...
GlobalWafers has disclosed that its two US subsidiaries will receive up to US$406 million in direct funding from the US Department of Commerce under the Chips Act.
Industry sources indicate that prices for mature semiconductor manufacturing process tape-outs will likely decrease in 2025, primarily driven by higher tape-out demand from integrated...
At SEMICON Japan 2024, JASM president Yuichi Horita announced that TSMC's first wafer fab in Kumamoto, Japan, is on track to begin mass production within 2024, reports Nikkei...
Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Inc. (FITI), a subsidiary of Foxconn specializing in semiconductor equipment, is expanding its footprint in Thailand with a THB10.5 billion (approx...
Chinese SiC substrate vendors are seeking to expand beyond their home market where prices have collapsed amid severe oversupply, according to industry sources.
Rapidus, a Japanese chipmaker pursuing 2nm chip mass production, has unveiled significant technological breakthroughs developed with IBM, as former lawmaker Akira Amari warns of risks...
The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in August 2022, has been in place for over two years. While companies like Intel and Microchip have progressed with...
In response to the semiconductor shortages caused by the pandemic and the ongoing tensions between the US and China, countries have increasingly focused on strengthening their semiconductor...
Rapidus is underway with the construction of a wafer fab in Chitose City, Hokkaido. The company aims to commence trial production of 2nm chips by April 2025 and anticipates scaling...
VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC), a joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors formed in September 2024, celebrated...
Following American chipmaker Microchip Technology's announcement regarding the closure of its Fab 2 wafer factory in Arizona and pause in its application for US semiconductor subsidies,...
