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Friday 8 March 2024
CHIPS Act funding still waiting for progress as Biden's State of Union Address promises little
US President Joe Biden said in his 2024 State of the Union Address that America is rising and has the lowest trade deficit with China in over a decade. A response from the Semiconductor...
Friday 8 March 2024
Nvidia's latest restrictions on CUDA stirs Chinese AI community
Nvidia has taken further actions targeting the Chinese market to maintain its dominance in the GPU market, attempting to block third-party GPU companies from seamlessly using CUDA...
Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwanese IC design firms accelerate exit from red ocean markets
Chinese IC design companies have initiated price wars in saturated and highly competitive market categories, leading Taiwanese IC design houses to expedite their withdrawal from these...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Exclusive: Chinese ex-Google employee stole company's AI secrets while moonlighting at Ant Group affiliate
Former Googler Linwei Ding is accused of stealing AI secrets from the US tech giant while secretly working for an Ant Group affiliate just months before Ant announced its own AI di...
Thursday 7 March 2024
US urges allies to squeeze China further on chip technology
The US government is pressing allies including the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, and Japan to further tighten restrictions on China's access to semiconductor technology, a controversial...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Computex Taipei 2024 to have AMD, Intel CEOs on stage
TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) has announced that Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, will be a keynote speaker at Computex 2024 on June 4. The council earlier announced...
Thursday 7 March 2024
British Nvidia's uncertain future: Graphcore weighs sale amidst financial and geopolitical woes
Amid Nvidia's historic achievement of reaching a market value of US$2 trillion, attention shifts to its rivals.
Thursday 7 March 2024
MediaTek Research releases LLM 'Breeze-7B' to target bilingual environment
Following the release of the world's first large-scale traditional Chinese language model (LLM) in early 2023, MediaTek Research, a forward-looking AI research unit under MediaTek,...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Germany in semiconductor spotlight with Taiwan in TSMC JV
Following the recent grand opening of Kumamoto Wafer Fab 1 by Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), a joint venture between TSMC and Japan's Sony, Denso, and Toyota,...
Thursday 7 March 2024
India and the Netherlands join hands on semiconductor opportunities
According to a report co-developed by India and the Netherlands, the two countries will join hands in the semiconductor sector.
Thursday 7 March 2024
US chip kingpin Texas Instruments tells reporters about GaN automotive opportunities
The US semiconductor kingpin Texas Instruments (TI) held a media briefing to discuss the latest power density solutions, the potential expansion of Gallium Nitride (GaN) usage in...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Airoha to strengthen Ethernet chip offering
MediaTek subsidiary, Airoha Technology, which specializes in Bluetooth Audio and PON chips, is looking to broaden its Ethernet chip offering by partnering with IC Plus, another MediaTek-affiliated...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Backend houses gearing up for AI chip boom
The arrival of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) age has underscored the increasing importance of semiconductor packaging and testing, with makers stepping up efforts to expand advanced...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Nvidia restricts CUDA usage on third-party GPUs, highlighting Chinese reliance on foreign technologies
Nvidia recently warned developers against using its CUDA on non-Nvidia GPUs, a move where the company tries to fend off other competitors. It also highlights another challenge in...
Wednesday 6 March 2024
TSMC supplier Topco sees market momentum in used semiconductor equipment
Topco Scientific Co., the leading provider of integrated services for semiconductor and optoelectronic key materials, stated that as semiconductor demand gradually recovers, the industry...