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Monday 30 September 2024
South Korea's chip stockpiles shrink at fastest pace since 2009
South Korea's semiconductor stockpiles dwindled at the fastest clip since 2009 last month in a sign of sustained demand for high-performance memory chips used in artificial intelligence...
Monday 30 September 2024
China urges local companies to stay away from Nvidia's chips
Beijing is stepping up pressure on Chinese companies to buy locally produced artificial intelligence chips instead of Nvidia Corp. products, part of the nation's effort to expand...
Monday 30 September 2024
Intel's EUR10 billion semiconductor plant stalls amid German chips and batteries budget battle
Intel's EUR10 billion (approx. US$10.5 billion) semiconductor plant in Magdeburg, Germany, has hit a major roadblock as the country faces a critical budget tug-of-war between funding...
Monday 30 September 2024
Intel's comeback in automotive: will its bet on smart cockpit pay off in dethroning Qualcomm?
Rumors have been swirling recently about Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel.
Monday 30 September 2024
Entering the trillion-transistor era: A semiconductor revolution unfolds
In early September, SEMICON Taiwan 2024 was held in Taipei. This annual global semiconductor event gathered leading semiconductor companies and industry elites from around the world...
Monday 30 September 2024
China's auto chip sector rises to challenge Qualcomm and Nvidia's reign
China's intelligent driving market has experienced significant and rapid growth in recent years. While leading global chipmakers, Qualcomm and Nvidia, continue to dominate the global...
Monday 30 September 2024
Possible PMIC contract between DB HiTek and Tesla
South Korea-based 8-inch foundry business, DB HiTek, is on the verge of closing a contract with Tesla to manufacture power semiconductor devices for its electric vehicles (EVs). Should...
Friday 27 September 2024
US and India launch national security fab for compound semiconductors amid export control challenges
The US and India recently announced the establishment of a national security fab dedicated to producing chips using compound semiconductors, marking a significant milestone in India's...
Friday 27 September 2024
Memory spot prices fall on slow demand recovery
The recovery in downstream consumer markets remains sluggish, leading to a further decline in spot market prices for memory chips. In response, industry leader Kingston Technology...
Friday 27 September 2024
Meta prototype AR glasses features chip co-developed with MediaTek
Meta has revealed a prototype of its Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses, featuring a customized chip co-developed with MediaTek, according to industry sources.
Thursday 26 September 2024
AMD, Broadcom eye lucrative potential in custom chips amid early market hurdles
AMD CEO Lisa Su predicts that while GPUs currently dominate AI tasks due to their parallel processing efficiency, the future will see a broader range of chip architectures emerge...
Thursday 26 September 2024
SK Hynix begins volume production of 12-layer HBM3E
K Hynix has commenced mass production of the world's first 12-layer HBM3E product, boasting a 36GB capacity, the highest of any current HBM available, according to the memory chip...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
TSMC adopts SMC's chillers for 2nm trial production
Japan-based SMC has announced that it has shipped chillers to TSMC for the trial production of 2nm chips. SMC is launching chiller products specifically for advanced semiconductor...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
JCET expands HBM packaging and testing as China accelerates domestic production
The Biden administration is considering imposing restrictions on the import of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and related equipment into China, fueling growing demand for domestic substitutes...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
China leverages compute-in-memory technology to overtake HBM in AI chip development
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has created an unprecedented demand for computational power. As the chip industry faces physical limitations in the post-Moore's...