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| SK Hynix to operate acquired Intel Memory product unit as independent company |
8/6/2021 |
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Intel and SK Hynix announced last October that Intel would sell its NAND memory and storage business to SK Hynix for $9 billion. This means that Intel will part ways with its NAND SSD product line while it holds on to its Optane memory and storage business that now sits within the newly formed Datacenter and AI Group, a division Intel created recently as part of a restructuring of its Data Platform Group.
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| Foxconn bought chip plant for EV chip productions |
8/6/2021 |
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In a joint news conference, Foxconn and Macronix said the sale of the 6-inch wafer fabrication plant (fab) in Taiwan's chip-making hub of Hsinchu will be finalised by the end of this year. The plant is not currently in operation.
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| Pat Gelsinger: "Intel can be in a mega-fab position" |
8/6/2021 |
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said negotiations with local officials are ongoing, and the company expects to announce a U.S. site by the end of the year. Along with necessary foundry infrastructure, including inexpensive power and plentiful water, the chip maker also wants to locate its new fab near a university.
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| Silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers reports net profits increased of 16.4% |
8/5/2021 |
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GlobalWafers registered consolidated revenues of NT$15.21 billion for the second quarter, up 2.7% sequentially and 11% on year, with the amount surpassing NT$30 billion in the first half, growing 10.3% on year. The company's net profits for the first half were NT$6.65 billion, up 5.8% on year.
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| TSMC is eyeing 2nm production for 5G |
8/5/2021 |
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“A strong roadmap is important for TSMC to maintain its foundry leadership and competitiveness. The company will see increased competition from Intel and Samsung foundries in the future."
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| Marvell Technology acquires Innovium for network technology |
8/5/2021 |
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This latest acquisition automatically drops Marvell into a market that the company said could grow at a 15% CAGR to $2 billion by 2026. Marvell said a Tier 1 cloud customer has already selected Innovium as a supplier, which the company said should lead to significant ramp in sales in 2022.
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| IC designers in Taiwan goes in alliance to stay competitive |
8/4/2021 |
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Facing increasing cost pressure on developing new-generation chip solutions, prompted them to form alliances with peers and partners in other semiconductor segments or integrate subsidiaries to build their own fleet of design forces, according to industry sources.
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| Toshiba offers 12 new motor control MCUs |
8/3/2021 |
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All of the products announced are based upon an ARM Cortex-M4 core with floating-point unit (FPU) and memory protection unit (MPU), running at speeds up to 160MHz.
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| Micron ships 176-layer NAND UFS 3.1 mobile memory |
8/2/2021 |
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Engineered for high-end and flagship phones, Micron’s discrete UFS 3.1 mobile NAND unlocks 5G’s potential with up to 75% faster sequential write and random read performance than prior generations, enabling downloads of two-hour 4K movies in as little as 9.6 seconds.
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| IC unit shipments to surge 21% in 2021 |
8/2/2021 |
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IC unit shipments for 2021 will reach 391.2 billion, more than 11 times the 34.1 billion units shipped over 30 years ago in 1990, IC Insights indicated.
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| STMicroelectronics see strong coming demand |
8/2/2021 |
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The second-quarter net revenues totaled $2.99 billion, up 43.4% year-over-year. The gross margin of 40.5% and operating margin of 16.3% improved from 35.0% and 5.1%, respectively. And the net income rose to $412 million.
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| Samsung post %8.3 billion profit |
7/30/2021 |
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Samsung Electronics’ operating profit in the second quarter soared 54.3 percent on-year to reach 12.5 trillion won ($10.9 billion), its best quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2018.
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| Qualcomm predicts IC shortage to end 2022 |
7/30/2021 |
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The company says it is having multiple vendors produce the same type of chip to boost its supply. Demand for Qualcomm’s products, however, is still outstripping its ability to supply them.
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