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| Samsung spent $36 billion on fab upgrade in 2021 |
2/10/2022 |
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According to the South Korean chip giant Wednesday, the company poured 43.6 trillion won ($36.4 billion) for upgrades to and the expansion of its chip plants in Korea and China where advanced DRAM chips and vertical NAND flash memory chips are produced.
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| Arm has a new CEO |
2/9/2022 |
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Arm’s board of directors has appointed 35-year semiconductor industry leader Rene Haas as chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, effective immediately. He succeeds Simon Segars, who has stepped down as CEO and member of the board of directors after 30 years with the company.
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| Intel innvested another billion on foundry business development |
2/9/2022 |
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“Foundry customers are rapidly embracing a modular design approach to differentiate their products and accelerate time to market. Intel Foundry Services is well-positioned to lead this major industry inflection. With our new investment fund and open chiplet platform, we can help drive the ecosystem to develop disruptive technologies across the full spectrum of chip architectures,” said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO.
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| SEMICON Korea 2022 Hybrid to open |
2/8/2022 |
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The hybrid event will feature 2,000 booths; business matching to help domestic organizations expand their international reach.
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| House passes Semiconductor Bill |
2/7/2022 |
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The bill passed by a vote of 222-210. It marks an important step for a top Biden administration priority, but the legislation is likely to be extensively revised as negotiators reconcile differences with what the Senate passed about eight months ago.
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| Synapse Design joined the Design Center Alliance (DCA) program of TSMC Open Innovation Platform |
2/4/2022 |
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Synapse Design, a QuEST Global company, has design centers in the US, India, China, Japan, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and employs more than 1,000 engineers. The company has worked with TSMC closely and completed over 150 designs on TSMC’s process technologies over the past five years, including more than 20 designs on TSMC’s latest N7, N6, and N5 processes.
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| Sony Semiconductor succeeded in developing first stacked CMOS image sensor |
2/4/2022 |
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Sony’s new technology separates photodiodes and pixel transistors on different substrate layers. This new architecture approximately doubles saturation signal level relative to conventional image sensors, widens dynamic range, and reduces noise, thereby substantially improving imaging properties.
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| NAND flash are to go over 200 layers |
2/3/2022 |
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Among the vendors, Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology could be the first racing to kick off volume production of 200-plus-layer 3D NAND flash chips.
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| AMD beats expectation on Q4 revenue of $4.8 billion |
2/3/2022 |
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Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $1.1 billion, or 92 cents a share, beating expectations of 76 cents a share on a non-GAAP basis. AMD’s shares are up 8.85% to $127.11 a share in after-hours trading.
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| Siltronic declared it can go alone without GlobalWafers |
2/3/2022 |
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"We now see ourselves in a strong position to remain successful as an independent company," Chief Executive Officer Christoph von Plotho said on Wednesday, citing a planned new factory in Singapore that reflects its growth ambitions.
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| GlobalWafers' deal to take over Siltronic collapsed |
2/2/2022 |
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GlobalWafers' (6488.TWO) planned 4.35-billion-euro ($4.89 billion) takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic collapsed late on Monday as the deal did not receive regulatory approval on time, although the door remained open to another attempt.
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