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| EU to decide on Nvidia/ARM merger on Oct. 13 |
9/10/2021 |
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The world's biggest maker of graphics and AI chips announced the deal last year, triggering concerns in the semiconductor industry over whether Arm could remain a neutral player licensing key intellectual property to customers and rivals.
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| Qualcomm wants to work with foundries in Europe |
9/10/2021 |
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To tackle a chip shortage that has hit Europe's carmakers and exposed its dependence on Asia, the EU is pushing for multibillion-dollar investments to double the continent's share of global chip production over the next decade.
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| Korean suppliers see high demand on memory chips |
9/9/2021 |
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are optimistic about their business performances for the second half of 2021 thanks to strong memory demand for mobile devices and servers, according to Digitimes Research.
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| MediaTek to add 2,000 jobs to it's work force |
9/9/2021 |
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The company aims to hire over 2,000 new employees through a recruitment campaign targeting soon-to-be-graduates this year, a three-fold increase from previous years as it expects sales to grow in 2022.
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| Samsung is to decide on their foundry plant soon |
9/8/2021 |
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According to news reports and industry sources on Monday, Samsung will soon make its decision on the location of a $17 billion chip plant in the US. Along with Austin, the state capital of Texas, Taylor in Williamson County, Texas, has recently risen as a possible candidate according to public documents.
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| In the global chip shortage substrate suppliers plays important role |
9/8/2021 |
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Some industry specialists said they could remain in short supply for years. That has made sourcing the products a priority for chip companies including Intel Corp., Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and given new clout to the unheralded companies that specialize in making them.
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| Most Big Techs are to design their own custom chips |
9/8/2021 |
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Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Baidu are all shunning established chip firms and bringing certain aspects of chip development in-house, according to company announcements and media reports. “Increasingly, these companies want custom-made chips fitting their applications’ specific requirements rather than use the same generic chips as their competitors,” Syed Alam, global semiconductor lead at Accenture
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| Chips to account for 20% of BOM on your vehicle by 2030 |
9/8/2021 |
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger predicted that semiconductors will account for more than 20% of the total premium vehicle bill of materials (BOM) by 2030. That represents a staggering 5x growth rate over 2019’s 4% figure. This comes amid increasing demand for semiconductors generally.
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| Nvidia stock popped up 15% during August |
9/7/2021 |
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This robust performance can be attributed to the graphics chip specialist's release of strong second-quarter results and continued investor enthusiasm about its long-term growth potential.
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| Toshiba: Chip supply won't meet demand for a year |
9/7/2021 |
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Toshiba Corp. said it won’t be able to meet demand for power-regulating chips for another year and, in certain cases, through the end of 2022, offering a fresh warning for makers of cars, consumer electronics and industrial machines.
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| Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company, wants to get into EV |
9/3/2021 |
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Xiaomi EV Inc., Xiaomi Corp.’s electric vehicle (EV) arm, has completed its business registration with a registered capital of RMB10 billion. Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, is the legal representative of Xiaomi EV. This marks a key milestone of the much anticipated smart EV initiative, which has officially entered a substantial development phase.
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| Weebit Nano extends development partnership with CEA-Leti |
9/2/2021 |
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Weebit Nano, a developer of next-generation memory technologies, has expanded its ongoing strategic development partnership with CEA-Leti, the French research institute, as it looks to further enhance its ReRAM technologies and support its commercialisation efforts.
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| Google reports to be designing its own processor for ChromeBook and Pixel |
9/2/2021 |
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It plans to roll out the CPUs for laptops and tablets, which run on the company's Chrome operating system, in around 2023. Google is also ramping up its efforts to build mobile processors for its Pixel smartphones and other devices after announcing it will use in-house processor chips for the first time in its upcoming Pixel 6 series.
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| Emerging memories can be a $44 billion business |
9/1/2021 |
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Over time, emerging memories are to create new markets of their own, and that’s there’s a great deal of competitive advantage to be gained for participating in the market—not just for memory makers and foundries, but also designers and users of SoCs who are already incorporating these new non-volatile memories into their designs to achieve much more competitive power consumption and system responsiveness.
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