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| South Korea was the world's largest spender on chip equipment |
6/4/2021 |
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South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., spent US$7.31 billion in chipmaking equipment in the January-March period, up 118 percent from a year ago, according to quarterly billings data from SEMI.
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| Micron has achieved 176-layer NAND and 1a (1-alpha) DRAM technology |
6/3/2021 |
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Micron president and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra made the announcements during a Computex keynote, in which he shared a vision for computing innovation and the central role memory and storage play in enabling enterprises to seize the full potential of the data economy.
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| Nvidia is confident that the ARM merger will be approved |
6/3/2021 |
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Government approval in China and elsewhere may come later this year or in 2022, Huang said over video at the Computex conference in Taipei on Wednesday. He pointed out that an earlier acquisition took about a year and a half so it is likely the current process will be similar.
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| TSMC new fab construction starts in Arizona |
6/3/2021 |
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Speaking at the company's annual technology presentation to clients and investors, held online for the second straight year because of the pandemic, CEO C.C. Wei said the planned factory remains on track to start volume production of chips using the company's 5-nanometer production technology starting in 2024.
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| Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger keynotes at Computex |
6/2/2021 |
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Gelsinger concluded by thanking the Taiwan semiconductor ecosystem for playing a critical role in addressing current challenges within the industry. “We are working closely with our ODM, OEM, foundry, assemble and test partners in Taiwan to make sure we are collectively investing in the right areas to eliminate future supply chain bottlenecks,” Gelsinger said.
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| Cadence expanda its collaboration with TSMC |
6/1/2021 |
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Cadence Design Systems Inc. is expanding its collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd (TSMC) to accelerate mobile, AI and hyperscale computing application design using the integrated Cadence digital flow and custom/analog tool suite on TSMC’s N3 and N4 process technologi
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| Marvell offers new NVMe SSD controllers to support PCIe 5.0 |
5/31/2021 |
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The new SSD controllers are the first under the umbrella of Marvell's Bravera brand, which will also encompass HDD controllers and other storage accelerator products. The Bravera SC5 family of PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers will consist of two controller models: the 8-channel MV-SS1331 and the 16-channel MV-SS1333.
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| PC market continue to grow |
5/31/2021 |
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Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, shipments of PCs are expected to grow by 18.1% in 2021 with shipments of just over 357 million units. While IDC still expects PC growth to drop slightly in 2022 (-2.9%), the overall five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) remains positive at 3%.
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| Panasonic offers Bluetooth 5 Low Energy consumption module |
5/28/2021 |
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Bluetooth 5 features a higher symbol rate of 2 Mbps using the high speed LE 2M PHY or a significantly longer range using the LE coded PHY at 500 kb/s or 125 kb/s. The new channel selection algorithm (CSA#2) also helps to improve the module's performance in high interference environments. Furthermore, the new Low Energy advertising extensions allow for much larger amounts of data to be broadcasted in connectionless scenarios.
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| Oversupply of NAND flash start to settle down |
5/28/2021 |
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The NAND flash market will be undersupplied in the second quarter, with prices for mainstream parts being driven up, TrendForce noted. The worsening shortage of NAND flash device controllers has had a further negative impact on the available storage devices.
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| ARM is watching out spending as closing with Nvidia draws near |
5/28/2021 |
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Nvidia has frozen hiring including a ban on backfilling jobs left vacant by departures, has put a stop on new engagements of contractors and has cancelled its FlexPlot scheme which gave US employees $8,500 a year and UK employees $4,500 to spend on certain defined areas.
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| Arm offers latest CPU and GPU designs with its new Armv9 architecture |
5/27/2021 |
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Arm’s designs — and particularly, its big.LITTLE configuration of combining powerful high-performance cores and battery-saving high-efficiency cores — are common to virtually every Android phone. That means the designs introduced here are effectively a preview of what the best Android phones of 2022 will look like.
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| 200mm fab equipment spending to reach $4 billions |
5/27/2021 |
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"Wafer manufacturers will add 22 new 200mm fabs to help meet growing demand for 5G, automotive and Internet of Things (IoT) devices that rely on analog, power management and display driver integrated circuits (ICs), MOSFETs, microcontroller units (MCUs) and sensors,"
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| Intel regained top chip vendor title in Q1 |
5/27/2021 |
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In total, the top-15 semiconductor companies’ sales surged by 21% in 1Q21 compared to 1Q20, three points greater than the total worldwide semiconductor industry 1Q21/1Q20 increase of 18%.
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