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| Wafer area shipments grew by 16.4% in Q3 |
11/10/2021 |
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Worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 3.3% to 3,649 million square inches in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the previous quarter, a new industry record, the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) reported in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.
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| Intel now wants to compete in the foundry business |
11/9/2021 |
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Gelsinger has an ambitious roadmap to catch and surpass Samsung and TSMC by 2025. Key to the plan is a series of massive new chip fabrication plants, or fabs, that Intel is building in the U.S., Europe and Israel. Combined, they will cost more than $44 billion to build.
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| Amkor Technology to expand package plant in Vietnam |
11/9/2021 |
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This is a strategic, long-term investment in geographical diversification and factory capacity expansion, supporting the company’s commitment to reliable supply chain solutions for our customers.
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| Qualcomm lines up multiple foundry supplier sources |
11/8/2021 |
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that it expected its own supply issues to be materially better by the end of December and the company will have enough supply to meet demand by the second half of next year.
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| ADI now certified to have met automotive Cyber security standard |
11/5/2021 |
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Analog Devices Inc.’s engineering processes are now certified as compliant with ISO/SAE 21434:2021, the new automotive cybersecurity standard for production road vehicle electrical and electronic (E/E) systems. This standard focuses on the end-to-end lifecycle for cybersecurity relevant E/E solutions from component to vehicle level.
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| Apple hit record sales regardless of short supply |
11/5/2021 |
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said robust demand fueled record sales totaling $83.4 billion during the iPhone maker’s most recent financial quarter. Revenue soared 29 percent from the same period a year ago despite worsening supply disruptions
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| AMD book capacity years ahead to avoid crunch |
11/4/2021 |
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Despite a squeeze in supply, AMD has been able to take market share away from rival Intel (INTC.O) in both PCs and servers with its latest line of processors. "Our supply chain team has worked to make sure that we have months and years of forecast ahead into our supply chain,"
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| Reliance increased major solar capacity through acquisition |
11/4/2021 |
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Reliance Industries Ltd, recently executed definitive agreements with Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Private Ltd (SPCPL), Khurshed Daruvala, and Sterling & Wilson Solar Ltd (SWSL) to acquire 40% stake post-money in SWSL through a series of transactions:
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| Needs for sensor and discrete semiconductors to surge |
11/4/2021 |
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A year after the deadly Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020 causing lockdowns worldwide and a deep global economic recession, sales of sensors, actuators, and discrete semiconductors are sharply higher in 2021 due to a resurgence in demand across many rebounding end-use markets and significant price increases for parts in short supply.
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| While vendors are already promoting 6G future |
11/4/2021 |
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Sixth-generation “research is in full swing, even though 6G commercial deployment is expected [to be] a decade out,” said Peter Vetter, president of Bell Labs Core Research at Nokia, opening the media roundtable that started this year’s Brooklyn 6G Summit. Research is needed to determine the “future technology” that 6G will be based on and what “future applications” it will utilize, Vetter stated.
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| Intel shows off new Alder Lake architecture design |
11/3/2021 |
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Taking a page from Arm mobile processors, Intel’s hybrid architecture places performance cores and efficiency cores on the same die. A new “Thread Director” feature in Alder Lake will coordinate with Windows 11 to direct different processing threads to the optimal core.
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| ARM CEO comments on chip shortage |
11/3/2021 |
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I’m here to tell you that you might be disappointed because you might not be able to buy everything that you wanted to buy for Christmas. And the reason for that is because of this global shortage of semiconductors that you may have read quite a lot about in the news recently.”
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| Bosch to invest 400 million Euros in fab expansion |
11/2/2021 |
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Confirming it would spend €400 million at its Dresden, Reutlingen and Penang factories, Bosch also insisted it would ramp up production far earlier than planned. The semiconductor crisis has crippled the world’s automakers, with European car production at its lowest level since the 1990s and UK production culled back to 1982 levels.
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| GlobalFoundries announced capacity sold out for 2023 |
11/2/2021 |
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Automotive companies and home appliance makers have been struggling for months to obtain enough chips for building products, and now the problem is spreading to electronics manufacturers and their suppliers. Apple, for example, said it will miss out on more than $6 billion in sales this holiday season because of chip shortages. Intel likewise blamed its lower CPU sales on shortages in power supply and networking chips.
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