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| Planned TSMC plant in Japan expected to drive up operational cost |
10/25/2021 |
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Western nations are demanding a secure supply of semiconductors as their domestic automakers continue to idle production lines because of chip shortages. Those governments are seeking manufacturing investments from leading chip makers in Asia such as Samsung of South Korea and TSMC of Taiwan, as well as Intel.
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| Electric vehicle (EV) sales up 177% |
10/22/2021 |
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Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Asia and the Middle East reached 1,802,723 units for January to August 2021, up by 177% year-on-year, according to the Worldwide Monthly BEV & PHEV Tracker from Researcher and Research LLC.
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| PC shipment broke record again |
10/22/2021 |
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Global PC shipments marked their sixth consecutive year-on-year (YoY) growth in the third quarter of 2021 at 84.2 million units. This came despite the ongoing component shortages and other supply constraints.
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| Micron to build a new DRAM plant in Japan |
10/21/2021 |
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The new chip fab will produce advanced DRAM for the data center, as the company is shifting focus away from the consumer market after selling its 3D XPoint fab to Texas Instruments.
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| Apple shows off its in house developed M1 and M1 Pro system in a chip |
10/20/2021 |
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The M1 had been widely successful for Apple, showcasing fantastic performance at never-before-seen power efficiency in the laptop market. Although the M1 was fast, it was still a somewhat smaller SoC – still powering devices such as the iPad Pro line-up, and a corresponding lower TDP, naturally still losing out to larger more power-hungry chips from the competition.
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| Rambus announced sampling of DDR5 server memory modules |
10/19/2021 |
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This level of performance, according to the company, represents a 17% increase in data rate over the first-generation 4800 MT/s DDR5 RCD. With the addition of a number of key innovations, Rambus has been able to deliver 5600 MT/s performance at lower latency and power while optimizing timing parameters for improved RDIMM margins.
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| Component shortage slows smartphone market |
10/19/2021 |
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Global smartphone shipments fell by 6% in the third quarter of 2021 as vendors struggled to meet demand for devices amid component shortages, according to market analyst Canalys.
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| Samsung Foundry to offer GAA process by 2022 |
10/18/2021 |
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amsung is being most aggressive pursuing the next generation of transistor technology, with plans to reach mass production ahead of TSMC and Intel. Samsung’s 3-nanometer process will use the gate-all-around (GAA) transistor structure, which the foundry calls MBCFET (Multi-bridge channel FET) and will be in production first half of 2022.
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| DRAM prices projected to be in downswing |
10/18/2021 |
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DRAM contract prices are likely to exit a bullish period that lasted three quarters and be on the downswing in the fourth quarter of 2021 at a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline of 3-8%, according to TrendForce. This decline can be attributed to not only the declining procurement activities of DRAM buyers going forward, but also the drop in DRAM spot prices ahead of contract prices.
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| China and Taiwan combine now controls 37% of semiconductor global capacity |
10/18/2021 |
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As of December 2020, Taiwan held the largest share of IC industry capacity of any country or region in the world. Moreover, if combined, the share of IC capacity within the borders of China and Taiwan would represent about 37% of global IC capacity, about 3x the amount of IC capacity located in North America.
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| AMD offers new $329* Radeon RX 6600 graphics card |
10/15/2021 |
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The graphics card that should be available at Amazon, Best Buy, Micro Center and the Newegg Shuffle starting as soon as the very moment we published this story at 9AM ET. Given how exorbitant GPU prices have been during the global chip crunch, you should probably stop reading if you want one and get with the clicking.
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