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| China is capable to delay the Nvidia/ Arm merger |
6/9/2021 |
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When the deal was announced last September, Nvidia and Arm said it would take approximately 18 months to go through. But Chinese regulators could take up to 18 months from now to reach a conclusion, according to the Chinese antitrust lawyers cited by the FT. Regulators in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. are also probing the deal.
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| GlobalFoundries countersues IBM |
6/9/2021 |
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GlobalFoundries on Monday sued International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N), asking a judge to rule that it did not violate a contract with the U.S. company which claims it is owed $2.5 billion in damages.
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| UMC pledged to be "Carbon Zero" by 2050 |
6/8/2021 |
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In the meantime, UMC has obtained admission into RE100, becoming the second semiconductor wafer foundry in this initiative, and committed to use 100% renewable energy by 2050 by setting progressive goals of 15% by 2025 and 30% by 2030.
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| Winbond see profit double in 2021 |
6/8/2021 |
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Rising specialty DRAM and NOR flash memory prices are set to boost net profits at Winbond Electronics in the second quarter of 2021, which are likely to more than double those generated in the prior quarter.
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| Samsung is progressing on non-memory chips |
6/8/2021 |
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Samsung see sales of its non-memory business particularly the system LSI segment boom this year, buoyed by strong demand for handset application processors, CMOS image sensors, power management chips and display driver ICs.
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| Rising memory prices helps company like Nanya and Adata |
6/7/2021 |
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Nanya already saw its DRAM ASPs rise 15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, when the company posted a 192.7% on-quarter hike in net profits. The company expects to see its DRAM ASPs continue rising in the second quarter, with about flat growth in bit shipments.
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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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