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| President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass Semiconductor Bill |
1/25/2022 |
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"Let's get another historic piece of bipartisan legislation done," Biden said in remarks at the White House. "Let's do it for the sake of our economic competitiveness and our national security. Let's do it for the cities and towns all across America working to get their piece of the global economic package."
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| TSMC to build a new advanced packaging plant in Taiwan |
1/25/2022 |
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This will be TSMC's sixth advanced packaging plant, if constructed. The company now operates four advanced packaging fabs, located in Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), and Longton in northern Taiwan, mainly engaged in bumping, advanced testing and backend 3D packaging.
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| Four new W-iFi building blocks are on the horizon |
1/24/2022 |
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According to Wi-Fi Alliance, the number of Wi-Fi devices in use will reach nearly 18 billion in 2022. The network of companies that manages the Wi-Fi design ecosystem also forecasts 4.4 billion devices to be shipped this year.
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| China is still generations behind in semiconductor technology |
1/21/2022 |
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"China is probably three or four generations behind what is considered leading edge,” Mario Morales, group vice president for enabling technologies and semiconductors at the International Data Corporation, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
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| ASML recovered from a recent fire expects to grow 20% |
1/21/2022 |
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“We currently believe that we can manage the situation, and that we will not see a significant impact on our EUV output in the year 2022,” ASML CEO Peter Wennink said after the company announced its quarterly results this week. “We expect about 20 percent growth as compared to 2021.”
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| Trend for memory continue to look good into 2022 |
1/21/2022 |
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The need for more memory bandwidth will continue in 2022. Moreover, CXL-connected memory modules in various form factors such as E3.S, E1.S and PCIe AICs will start to be adopted and used for memory expansion and acceleration starting with data center and computing applications. Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open industry interconnect standard for providing high bandwidth and low latency. It also enables memory expansion and acceleration across high-performance computational workloads for AI, ML, HPC, and communications segments.
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| Custom IC design brings more business to EDA vendors |
1/20/2022 |
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Cadence and rivals Synopsys Inc (SNPS.O) and Siemens EDA (SIEGn.DE) are at the center of a microchip industry shift as cloud computing providers, software makers and others who traditionally have bought semiconductors from a few big companies now want to draw up their chips own in-house.
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| Keysight offers test solution to verify advanced 5G new radio (NR) features |
1/20/2022 |
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KT selected Keysight’s Protocol Research & Development (R&D) Toolset to accelerate the launch of 5G mobile devices that support the latest 5G NR specifications defined by 3GPP, the global standards organization. This includes 3GPP Release 16 specifications, which device makers use to support advanced 5G features.
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| GlobalData: Shortages will begin to improve in the latter half of 2022 |
1/19/2022 |
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"For the automotive sector, it means that new car sales will not be as high as automakers would like, simply due to production issues, For the tech sector, smartphones and gaming consoles will continue to be affected. Consumers will be impacted by rising prices or a general lack of widespread availability. This is because tech companies will either decide to absorb the cost internally or pass the cost onto the consumers."
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| China criticizes UK's policy of banning network equipment made by Huawei |
1/19/2022 |
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On Thursday MI5, the agency responsible for domestic security, circulated a warning and picture of Christine Lee Ching-kui to members of parliament which said she was “involved in political interference activities” in the United Kingdom on behalf of the United Front Work Department, a branch of the Chinese Communist Party.
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| Chroma gets into semiconductor test through acquisition |
1/18/2022 |
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Environmental Stress Systems Inc. (ESS), a provider of thermal forcing systems that can reach temperatures ranging from -104°C to 175°C. This technology will enable Chroma to grow their expertise on temperature control in semiconductor test equipment and meet the testing requirements of the wafer market for extremely low and high temperatures.
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