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TSMC earmarks $40B for Capex |
4/18/2022 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd (TSMC) reiterated its plan to spend more than $40 billion this year for capacity expansion despite concerns that overall demand for chips may wane.
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Samsung hired a supercomputer expert from Intel |
4/15/2022 |
Samsung hired Robert Wisniewski as a senior vice president and chief architect of high-performance computing (HPC) and head of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) America Systems Architecture Lab.
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Huawei founder calls attention on IP revenues |
4/13/2022 |
“Previously our intellectual property [efforts] were made for self-defence and to keep our own business safe,” “[However] after years of accumulation … we need to set up a reasonable pricing benchmark for industries to use our patented technologies fairly, and generate an appropriate return on our research and development,”
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Trend Force predict supply chain to ease up due to slow demand |
4/13/2022 |
The consumer electronics market will feel the brunt of the weakening stay-at-home economy, the pandemic in China, international tensions, and rising inflation in the second half of 2022 (1H22). Coupled with the traditional off-season, demand for relevant applications such as PCs, laptops, TVs, and smartphones has cooled significantly and downstream customers have successively downgraded their shipment targets for the year.
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US companies captured 54% of the worldwide IC market in 2021 |
4/12/2022 |
South Korean companies held 22% of the IC market (the combined total of IDM and fabless IC sales) in 2021, said IC Insights. Taiwan-based companies, on the strength of their fabless company IC sales, held 9% of global IC sales as compared to a 6% share held by the European and Japanese suppliers.
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Nanox opens a new MEM fab in Korea |
4/12/2022 |
Nanox expects to get to scale for production by mid-year 2022. Additionally, Nanox has been building its production line capabilities and establishing an operational assembly line at its Israeli facility to enable the expected ramp up in production and preparation for shipments of the Nanox.ARC system.
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ASM to expand Singapore manufacturing facility |
4/12/2022 |
ASM announced the groundbreaking of a second manufacturing floor at the site. The opening ceremony was attended by Singapore Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr. Tan See Leng, and by representatives of JTC Corp. and of the Singapore Economic Development Board.
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Synopsys offer cloud base pay-as-you-go design system |
4/11/2022 |
The company said this new cloud-optimized EDA deployment model offers chip and system design flexibility via a single-source, pay-as-you-go approach, helping drive significantly greater productivity and efficiency for increasingly complex chip designs.
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