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| Chip shortage to continue into 2022 |
12/7/2021 |
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As demand for chips continues to soar, supply chains will remain constrained for the foreseeable future. That means everyone — semiconductor businesses and their customers — should focus on building more resilient supply chains and use just-in-time models selectively.
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| Semiconductor shortage accelerates innovation |
12/7/2021 |
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With enduring pressure to keep costs in check, OEM design engineers will keep striving to optimize the footprint and number of components in their designs on both the board and systems level. In response, suppliers will be stepping up their innovation efforts.
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| Tower Semiconductor certified Siemens' mPower SBC13 and SBC18 process |
12/6/2021 |
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The software is the industry’s first and only IC power integrity verification solution to provide virtually unlimited scalability for analog, digital, and mixed signal ICs, enabling comprehensive power, electromigration (EM), and voltage drop (IR) analysis for even the largest IC designs.
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| FTC sued to block $40 billion Nvidia/Arm merger deal |
12/6/2021 |
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The FTC said the deal would give Nvidia too much control over technology and designs “that rival firms rely on to develop their own competing chips.” The Commission said it believes the combination would have both the means and the incentive to stifle market innovation.
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| Taiwan - the biggest spender in IC gears |
12/3/2021 |
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Taiwan was the largest buyer of semiconductor equipment in the third quarter of this year, as domestic firms expanded production capacity and upgraded technologies to improve global competitiveness, the global semiconductor trade association SEMI said Thursday.
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| SK hynix forms American Business Unit |
12/3/2021 |
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SK hynix has set up a new business unit solely dedicated to the US market where the memory chip giant has made a renewed push to secure a firm footing and expand partnership with local tech firms.
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| GlobalFoundries posted a 5-percent quarterly jump in revenues |
12/2/2021 |
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Despite global chip shortages, GlobalFoundries reported net income of $5 million in its third quarter ending Sept. 30, putting the chipmaker back in the black after reporting a $293 million net loss a year ago. The company also exceeded analysts’ earnings-per-share estimates of $0.00 with an adjusted EPS of $0.07.
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| Progress on the Nvidia-ARM acquisition |
12/1/2021 |
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European Commission is still seeking feedback from competitors and customers of the two businesses. Its options are to accept the concessions, demand more concessions, or open a four-month investigation, with the investigation seeming most likely.
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| Machine Vision Propel Factory Revolution |
12/1/2021 |
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Machine vision plays a core part in data generation and collection: It captures the physical world and transforms it into digital data in the form of point clouds so that the data can be further evaluated and translated by AI algorithms into valuable information.
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| MediaTek to offer 7nm TV controller chip |
11/30/2021 |
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Built with TSMC’s N7 advanced process technology, the MediaTek Pentonic 2000 offers unparalleled performance and power efficiency with features including powerful artificial intelligence (AI) engines, Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation (MEMC), Versatile Video Coding (VVC) decoding and picture-in-picture (PiP) technology.
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| New Micron LPDDR5 DRAM further reduced power consumption |
11/30/2021 |
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Micron recently announced that its low-power DDR5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM has been validated for MediaTek’s new Dimensity X1 5G chipset for smartphones, representing the flagship of MediaTek’s Dimensity 5G SoC portfolio. Micron has already shipped samples of its LPDDR5X built on its 1a (1-alpha) node aimed at high-end smartphones.
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| Renesas now makes Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) |
11/29/2021 |
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Renesas seems determined to repeat Silego’s previous success with its ultra-low-end GreenPAK line of programmable mixed-signal devices and super-simple design tools, this time in a low-end FPGA line that will appeal to many companies who just need a bit of programmable logic.
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| Semiconductor Industry grew 27.6% y-to-y |
11/29/2021 |
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The major memory companies reported very healthy 3Q21 revenue increases versus 2Q21 with all of them up double digits, led by Kioxia at 21.5%. Among the leading non-memory companies Qualcomm, AMD, Infineon, and NXP all had double digit growth. Intel was the only top semiconductor company with a revenue decline, down 2.2% in 3Q21 versus 2Q21.
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| Ouster Inc expanded in sale and services to Japan and South Korea on digital lidar. |
11/29/2021 |
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“We have already seen significant traction in the industrial and robotics verticals with growing interest across our other target industries. With the appointment of commercial leadership in-country, we intend to generate new leads and increase direct customer sales, while delivering faster support to our customers and ecosystem partners.”
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