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| Samsung is in position to regain IC sales leadership |
5/5/2021 |
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This unseating marked a milestone achievement not only for Samsung, but also for all other competing semiconductor producers who had tried for years to supplant Intel as the world’s largest supplier.
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| Q1 semiconductor sales up 3.6% |
5/5/2021 |
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“Global semiconductor sales remained strong during the first quarter of 2021, topping sales from the previous quarter and substantially outpacing the total from the first quarter of last year,”
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| Keysight Technologies provides workflow solution for DDR5 |
5/4/2021 |
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Hardware engineers need to minimize the risk of signal integrity issues in memory bus designs, which requires the ability to predict the signal quality after equalization, prototype the design and test for performance.
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| Intel allocates $3.5 billion for fab expansion |
5/4/2021 |
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The U.S. and Europe need to counter the subsidies governments provide the chip industry in Asia, Gelsinger said on “60 Minutes” Sunday night. He described the chip sector as an economic necessity and national security issue – especially given a global chip shortage that is constraining production of everything from laptop computers to automobiles.
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| Global 5G Smartphone shipment grew 458% |
5/3/2021 |
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho, Associate Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global 5G smartphone shipments soared by 458% year-on-year from 24 million units in the first quarter of 2020 to a record 133.9 million in Q1 2021.
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| EU consider chip alliance instead of magafab approach |
5/3/2021 |
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The plan, which is at a very preliminary stage, may include a pan-European scheme known as an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI), which allows EU governments to pump in funding under easier state aid rules, and companies to work together on the entire project,
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| Retail DDR5 memory modules is now market available |
4/30/2021 |
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Crucial's memory modules utilize integrated circuits (ICs) from Micron. The UDIMM module features a one-side design with four 2GB memory ICs, while the SO-DIMM module sticks to a dual-sided design with up to 16 memory ICs of the same size. According to JEDEC's specification, DDR5 is expected to push the envelop in terms of capacity. The expected ceiling is 128GB per module.
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| Fabless IC production constitute one third of semiconductor sales |
4/30/2021 |
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Over the long-term, IC Insights believes that fabless/system IC suppliers, and the IC foundries that serve them, will continue to be a strong force in the total IC industry landscape with their percentage share of the total IC market expected to reach the mid-30s over the next five years.
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| Samsung's memory business continue to go great |
4/30/2021 |
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Samsung's net profit stood at 7.14 trillion won (US$6.4 billion) in the January-March period, up 46.2 percent from a year earlier, the world's largest memory chip and smartphone vendor said in a regulatory filing.
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| Foxconn wants to get into EV with Apple |
4/29/2021 |
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It’s a new chance for Foxconn to develop low-cost modules for electronics brand owners in much the same way as the company started making laptop computers for Apple and Dell decades ago.
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| SK hynix net profit up 53% |
4/29/2021 |
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The world's second-largest memory maker, SK hynix said the strong performance was driven by strong memory-chip demand across all applications and improved yield rates, which refers to the portion of flawless chips per production volume.
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| UMC to spend $3.59 billions on expansion Capex |
4/29/2021 |
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Co-president Jason Wang told an earnings call the expansion will take place at an existing UMC (2303.TW) facility in the Tainan Science Park, with production scheduled to start from the second quarter of 2023.
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| European Union is planning to offer subsidies to chipmakers |
4/28/2021 |
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In an interview Monday with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, EU Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton said the chip shortage, particularly in its effect on the auto industry, had shown "how urgently we need to make our supply chains resilient."
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