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| APAC PC Market Down 16% in 2023 |
3/25/2024 |
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The traditional PC market in APAC (including Japan and China) posted a 16.1% decline in 2023 to 97.4 million units, according to IDC.
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| Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades |
3/25/2024 |
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Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet's Google, a first for the industry.
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| Nvidia CEO touts chipmaker's data center market potential |
3/22/2024 |
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company's Blackwell architecture AI GPU series has the potential to boost its data center market scale as much as 25%, or up to $250 billion. Huang sees a place for humans in AI systems to guide software and develop algorithms, and says Nvidia is focused on "this one niche called accelerated computing and AI" in the wider semiconductor landscape.
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| Micron posted an unexpected profit on AI demand |
3/22/2024 |
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Micron Technology is pointing to an increase in AI adoption for its above-estimate third-quarter revenue forecast and a per-share quarterly profit after five quarters of losses. The company's high bandwidth memory chips are sold out for this year and next year's supply has mostly been allocated, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra reports.
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| JEDEC publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard |
3/21/2024 |
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JEDEC has published JESD239, a GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard for AI, graphics and gaming applications. The new standard doubles the bandwidth of GDDR6 for up to 192 GB/s per device.
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| US considers sanctions for Huawei-linked firms |
3/21/2024 |
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The US is weighing sanctions against semiconductor companies with ties to Huawei Technologies, sources say. "Adding more Chinese companies to the US Entity List is a highly likely event," according to Jefferies analyst Edison Lee, who wrote, "It is easy to implement and justify, and it will further block certain key Chinese companies from being able to exploit current loopholes in export restrictions.
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| 300mm Chip Equipment Spending Forecast to Hit Record 7B in 2027 |
3/21/2024 |
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Global 300mm fab equipment spending for front-end facilities is forecast to reach a record $137 billion in 2027 after topping $100 billion for the first time by 2025 on the strength of the memory market recovery and strong demand for high-performance computing and automotive applications.
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| Intel awarded $8.5B in CHIPS funding |
3/21/2024 |
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The award is the largest yet from the Biden administration and will help advance the chipmaker's plants in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon.
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| SK Hynix mass producing HBM chips for AI chipsets |
3/20/2024 |
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SK Hynix has started mass producing its HBM3E high-bandwidth memory chips and plans to send shipments to Nvidia for AI chipsets this month, sources say. Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics are also developing HBMs, though only SK Hynix supplies Nvidia.
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| TSMC eyes Japan for advanced packaging |
3/19/2024 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering building advanced chip packaging capacity in Japan, sources say. Early deliberations are underway that could bring its chip on wafer on substrate packaging tech to Japan, according to the sources.
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| Top 5 IC Equipment Makers’ Revenue Down 1% YoY in 2023 |
3/18/2024 |
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Out of these five WFE vendors, ASML and Applied Materials managed to post YoY growth in 2023 while Lam Research, Tokyo Electron and KLA’s revenues declined by 25%, 22%, and 8% YoY, respectively. Strong DUV and EUV sales drove ASML to the top position in 2023.
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| 3M appoints new CEO |
3/18/2024 |
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The manufacturing giant named former L3Harris Technologies CEO William Brown as its chief executive, effective May 1.
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| Chipmakers focus on growing talent with apprenticeships |
3/18/2024 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and NXP Semiconductor are scaling up apprenticeship programs to fill the skills gap as more chip facilities are built in the US. The National Institute for Innovation and Technology, which is contracted by the Labor Department to expand apprenticeships in the semiconductor industry and related supply chain, is active in 22 states and is working on a national network of training providers.
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