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| Semiconductor Chip Bill moves ahead |
5/10/2022 |
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Members of Congress will meet Thursday to open negotiations on a compromise measure that would fund $52 billion in semiconductor manufacturing subsidies and boost U.S. competitiveness with Chinese technology.
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| 9% spending growth predicted for R& D |
5/10/2022 |
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Research and development (R&D) spending by semiconductor companies worldwide is forecast to grow by 9% in 2022 to $80.5 billion after climbing by an above average 13% in 2021 to a record-high $71.4 billion,
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| Lisa Su to keynote at COMPUTEX 2022 |
5/10/2022 |
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Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD, will be the first speaker of the COMPUTEX 2022 CEO Keynote series. The digital keynote will take place on May 23, at 2:00 PM (UTC+8), with the keynote theme “AMD Advancing the High-Performance Computing Experience.”
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| Kyocera to build $500M IC packaging factory |
5/9/2022 |
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Kyocera has announced a plan to build a $500m manufacturing facility, the largest it has ever operated in Japan, expanding production capacity for components including organic semiconductor packages and crystal device packages.
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| Apple Hires 31-Year Ford Veteran to Ramp Up Electric-Car Work |
5/9/2022 |
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The tech giant hired Desi Ujkashevic for the car project, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Ujkashevic had worked at Ford since 1991, most recently serving as its global director of automotive safety engineering. Before that, she helped oversee engineering of interiors, exteriors, chassis and electrical components for many Ford models.
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| Kubos is working on improving its cubic GaN technology to make more efficient LEDs |
5/9/2022 |
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Kubos Semiconductors Ltd., a developer of LEDs based on cubic gallium nitride, has identified in collaboration with researchers at Manchester and Cambridge Universities the potential for Kubos’s proprietary material to deliver LEDs capable of switching at faster speeds than those produced in the hexagonal crystal phase.
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| GlobalFoundries announced a US$117 million agreement with DoD |
5/6/2022 |
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GlobalFoundries has announced a US$117 million agreement with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide a strategic supply of US-made semiconductors that are critical to national security systems. Securely manufactured at GF's Fab 8 in Malta, New York.
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| A power struggle at Arm China |
5/6/2022 |
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Wu, Arm China and its British parent Arm Ltd have been embroiled in a two-year-long dispute and the latest development shows a resolution is not imminent.
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| Apple is going after engineers for steaing SOC design |
5/6/2022 |
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Apple’s lawsuit claims that Rivos, which has hired over 40 former Apple employees in the past year, has committed trade secret theft of its homegrown chip designs. The lawsuit especially names two former Apple engineers as defendants in this case:
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| Online sales days Does not necessary offer athe best prices for cellphone |
5/6/2022 |
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According to iPrice Group’s latest study, which gathered the price data of 80,000 smartphone prices across Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia from July 16 to December 31, 2021, online sales days actually do not offer the cheapest prices for smartphones. In fact, the study shows that there were price markups within two weeks before each online sales day.
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| Samsung to mass produce UFS4 in Q3 |
5/5/2022 |
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Samsung will be mass producing its UFS 4.0 in Q3 in a variety of capacities up to 1TB. Samsung UFS 4.0 will provide speed of up to 23.2 Gbps per lane. That’s double the previous leading UFS solution (UFS 3.1).
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| Elliott Management wants to take Western Digital and split off memories |
5/5/2022 |
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Western Digital makes hard drives, USB drives and memory cards. If it reverts to concentrate on its hard drives businesses, its stock price could surge to at least $100 a share by the end of next year, Elliott forecast. A "full separation of the Flash business can allow both HDD and Flash to be more successful and unlock significant value,"
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| AMD predicts 60% revenue growth in 2022 |
5/5/2022 |
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Following strong demand for processors used in servers as well as the contribution from its acquisition of field programmable gate array (FPGA) maker Xilinx, AMD predicts its target annual revenue will grow by 60% in 2022.
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| Four trends to be highlighted at the Embedded Vision Summit |
5/4/2022 |
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The Embedded Vision Summit is coming up May 16–19 in Santa Clara, California. It’s a conference uniquely focused on practical computer vision and visual artificial intelligence (AI), aimed squarely at innovators incorporating vision capabilities in products.
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