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| ASM invests $324M to expand Ariz. operations with new HQ |
12/8/2023 |
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Dutch chip equipment maker ASM is expanding its operations in Arizona with a $324 million investment over five years to construct a 20-acre Scottsdale facility for research, design and engineering. The company has had its US headquarters in Phoenix for more than four decades.
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| Intel, Siemens partner on advanced chipmaking |
12/7/2023 |
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Intel and Siemens have announced a 3-year collaboration focused on advanced semiconductor manufacturing with an eye toward delivering both operational efficiencies and sustainability gains. "Intel has big plans with our expansions, but we want to make sure that we do that with the utmost focus on efficiencies of natural resources and our commitments to the net zero," said Intel's global operations chief Keyvan Esfarjani.
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| Tech giants disagree on whether AI should be open, closed |
12/7/2023 |
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As the federal government considers how to regulate AI, Meta and IBM are advocating an "open science" approach and have formed the AI Alliance, joined by Dell, Sony, AMD, Intel and some startups and universities, to push for AI "built fundamentally on top of the open scientific exchange of ideas and on open innovation," IBM's Dario Gil said. Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are pushing for a closed, proprietary approach and have formed the Frontier Model Forum.
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| Demand for memory chips to lift global chip sales 16.8% in 2024 |
12/6/2023 |
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Global semiconductor industry revenue is expected to grow almost 17 percent year-on-year in 2024, following a slump in 2023, largely fueled by a surge in demand for memory chips, according to U.S.-based market information advisory firm Gartner Inc.
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| Appeals court overturns $2.18B ruling in Intel patent case |
12/6/2023 |
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a 2021 verdict in the patent case between Intel and VLSI Technology, which originally ruled that Intel had to pay a 2.18 billion patent-infringement fine. A new trial will determine damages involving a second VLSI patent.
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| Meta scientist: AI likely won't outsmart humans for decades |
12/5/2023 |
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Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't reach sentience for decades and the world will see "dog-level" AI way ahead of human-level intelligence because of the limits of training on texts. "There's a lot of really basic things about the world that they just don't get through this kind of training," LeCun says.
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| BIWIN Launches New PCIe Gen4 SSD for PC OEMs |
12/5/2023 |
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BIWIN has extended a new DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 SSD, the AP860, which is suitable for desktops, laptops, and all-in-one computers. This new product offer high performance, large capacity, excellent compatibility, quality consistency, and supply stability.
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| Huawei eyeing its own chip network amid US ban |
12/4/2023 |
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Huawei Technologies is reportedly building "a self-sufficient chip network" to bypass the US technology import restrictions. Huawei has allegedly transferred patents to SiCarrier, whose subsidiaries could give Huawei access to enterprises that develop lithography equipment, reports say.
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| Amkor plans $2B chip packaging and testing facility in Ariz. |
12/4/2023 |
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Amkor Technology is building an advanced packaging facility in Arizona with a $2 billion investment in the US semiconductor supply chain. Apple is expected to be the facility's first customer, with plans to test and package chips produced at a nearby Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. site.
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| Intel plans to spend $14B on its chips at TSMC |
12/1/2023 |
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Intel is expected to spend $4 billion on making its chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. next year and another $10 billion on orders in 2025, according to a report from analyst Andrew Lu. Intel is likely to displace Advanced Micro Devices as TSMC's second biggest 3-nanometer client, behind Apple,
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| Nvidia reigns as most profitable chip brand amid AI demand |
12/1/2023 |
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Nvidia's profits hit $10.42 billion in the third quarter as it worked to meet global demand for AI chips and serving big-name clients Meta and Microsoft. The strong quarter put it ahead of Intel and Samsung, but CEO Jensen Huang noted that US supply chain independence is still up to two decades away.
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