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| Supply chain shortage Make GPU prices to go up |
5/20/2022 |
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GPU prices have been fluctuating significantly since the second half of last year. We have even seen GPUs listed on third–party sites for well over MSRP. Is inflation to blame for the high cost of GPUs?
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| Foxconn to plan new 300mm wafer fab in Malaysia |
5/19/2022 |
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Malaysia’s Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNex) announced on Tuesday (May 17) it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Foxconn’s fully owned subsidiary Big Innovation Holding Limited (BIH) to set up a joint venture to build a 12-inch wafer plant, according to CNA. The facility is expected to produce 28 and 40-nanometer chips and have a monthly production capacity of 40,000 wafers.
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| Quadric and MegaChips Corp. have formed partnership to deliver ASIC and SoC IP's |
5/19/2022 |
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MegaChips announced an equity stake in Quadric in January 2022 and is also a major investor in a $21 million Series B funding round announced in March through their MegaChips LSI USA Corp. subsidiary. The round aims to help Quadric release the next version of its processor architecture, improve the performance and breadth of the Quadric software development kit (SDK), and roll out IP products to be integrated in MegaChips’ ASICs and SoCs
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| SEMICON China 2022 cancelled |
5/18/2022 |
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SEMI has cancelled SEMICON China 2022, originally scheduled for June 15-17 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) in Shanghai, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and related government control measures in the region.
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| Startup Axelera Unveils AI Test Chip |
5/18/2022 |
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AI chip startup Axelera has tested and validated a chip as a test vehicle for its Thetis digital in–memory compute core. The company’s tests show the 12–nm chip can achieve 39.3 TOPS with a power efficiency of 14.1 TOPS/W in an area of 9mm2.
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| SMIC post 67% revenue growth for Q1 |
5/17/2022 |
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SMIC has reported a revenue of $1.84 billion in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), up by 16.6% from the previous quarter, and by 66.9% from the same period last year.
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| Micron to apply new memory chip price model |
5/16/2022 |
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Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) on Thursday announced it was experimenting with a new pricing model for its chips called forward pricing agreements that would aim to stabilize the steep price fluctuations that plague the industry.
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| Software to differentiate the future EV |
5/16/2022 |
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There are of course many facets to why software is important. It allows for brand differentiation, it allows new services to be delivered over the lifetime of the car, it allows for new mobility models, and more.
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| EV batteries do not give zero carbon footprint |
5/16/2022 |
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The carbon footprint of mining and producing the raw materials used in batteries is comparable with that of tailpipe emissions. The e-mobility revolution has hidden expenses, including the recycling of battery components.
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| NAND Flash wafer prices start to slide |
5/13/2022 |
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suppliers are increasingly motivated to cut prices in exchange for sales due to weak retail demand since March, and a more conservative outlook for shipments of other end products, according to TrendForce.
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| Western Digital to meet cloud challenges with HDD and SSD |
5/13/2022 |
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Western Digital Corp.’s (WD) latest batch of new storage products is a reminder that hard drive technology isn’t going anywhere as customers of all sizes grapple with exponential data growth and raise their performance expectations of storage media.
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| MIPS to focus on RISC-V based multiprocessor IP core products |
5/13/2022 |
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The company said its new eVocore family of IP cores are highly scalable and configurable, enabling customers to blend coherent clusters of multi-threaded, multi-core CPUs in unique combinations to meet their exact power and performance requirements.
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| India's ISMC is getting closer to build a new IC fab |
5/12/2022 |
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The project would invest about $3 billion in a 65–nm analog chip fab, according to a statement by India’s Next Orbit Ventures, a fund management firm that aims to kickstart the effort. Israel’s Tower Semiconductor said it will be a technology provider for the project.
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| Infineon offers Coreless Current Sensor Ideal for EV Applications |
5/12/2022 |
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The coreless open loop current sensor offers an accurate and stable current measurement – provided as an analog output voltage. Based on Infineon’s market-proven temperature and stress compensation the measurement error is very low with proper calibration. TLE4972 adopts differential measurement concept which suppresses common mode magnetic interferences and is suitable to operate precisely in a magnetically noisy environment.
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