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| Nvidia unveiled its next-generation GPU architecture — named Hopper |
3/23/2022 |
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Nvidia has not opted to go down the trendy chiplets route favored by Intel and AMD for their mammoth GPUs. While the H100 is the first GPU to use HBM3, its compute die is monolithic, 80 billion transistors in 814mm2 built on TSMC’s 4N process. Memory and compute are packaged via TSMC’s CoWoS 2.5D packaging.
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| Knockoff semiconductors hazardous to national security |
3/22/2022 |
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The fear is that within the planet's complex supply chains, someone under pressure from customers to fulfill orders by any means necessary accepts components that turn out to be fake, and these will end up in equipment. These parts can be readily picked up from online marketplaces, and they look convincing enough.
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| 5G-capable smartphones reached 51% globally |
3/22/2022 |
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Sales penetration of 5G-capable smartphones reached 51% globally in January 2022, surpassing the penetration of 4G smartphones for the first time, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research’s Global Monthly Handset Model Sales Tracker.
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| Autotalks’ V2X chipset installed in approximately 2,000 buses along Seoul City’s expressways |
3/21/2022 |
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V2X communication involves communication between Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), and Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P). In Seoul, V2X systems aim to intelligently alert bus drivers of pedestrian collision, school zones (i.e., areas in front of schools) and silver zones (i.e., a designated pedestrian safety zone for the elderly that adopts speed limit measures), as well as warn of road and weather conditions.
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| Lagacy systms can be your security risk |
3/18/2022 |
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Because of the complex nature of supply chains, cybersecurity standards and frameworks are still being developed. Legacy systems are one significant aspect of semiconductor cybersecurity that can have major implications, yet they remain in organizational blind spots.
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| SK Siltron to build a new wafer production plant |
3/17/2022 |
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The company plans to spend nearly 1.05 trillion won (US$847.8 million) over the next three years to build a plant that can produce 300 mm silicon wafers in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province.
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| Intel to invest as much as €80 billion in the European Union |
3/17/2022 |
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The announcement includes plans to invest an initial €17 billion into a leading-edge semiconductor fab mega-site in Germany, to create a new R&D and design hub in France, and to invest in R&D, manufacturing, and foundry services in Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Spain
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| ARM plans 15% workforce reduction |
3/17/2022 |
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“Like any business, Arm is continually reviewing its business plan to ensure the company has the right balance between opportunities and cost discipline. Unfortunately, this process includes proposed redundancies across Arm’s global workforce.”
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| Micron offers SSD made with 176 layers NAND |
3/16/2022 |
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The Micron 7450 SSD with NVMe delivers quality-of-service (QoS) latency at or below 2ms, a wide capacity range, and the broadest set of form factors available to meet the needs of the most demanding data center workloads.
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| EV companies to resume autonomous vehicle (AV) passenger services testing |
3/16/2022 |
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Testing shut down completely in response to the pandemic but began to revive last summer. As a practical matter, only three companies (Pony.ai, Waymo, Zoox) performed enough testing to generate a meaningful amount of data, and one company (Aurora) had its permit to test revoked, but testing activity is clearly picking back up.
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| ROHM-Wako Electronics expands component factory in Malaysia |
3/16/2022 |
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ROHM-Wako Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (RWEM) is expanding its electronic components facility in Kelantan, Malaysia, with a total investment of RM910 million ($216.26 million at $1=RM4.20). This investment is expected to create high-skilled jobs for over 340 Malaysians. It is the single biggest investment ever made by the company
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| Sanctions keeps 5G from deploying in Russia |
3/16/2022 |
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Ericsson and Nokia have already confirmed that they have stopped supplying infrastructure to Russian operators Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Megafon, and Veon. Russia’s largest mobile operator MTS started working with the Swedish vendor in 2020 on large-scale modernization of its existing cellular infrastructure (2G/3G/4G) towards a 5G future.
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| Shenzhen lock-down closes Foxconn local production |
3/15/2022 |
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Businesses providing non-essential services have been ordered to close and everyone in the city of 17 million will be tested for COVID-19 following the reporting of 60 new infections on Sunday.
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