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| SMIC gives up some foundry customers to concentrate on 14nm development |
7/9/2021 |
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China's growth in the semiconductor industry is not without challenges. Chip manufacturing is a highly complex process requiring great precision and typically takes several years to gain expertise and acquire specialized skills to mass-produce chips. Nevertheless, in spite of facing several technical challenges, the country is on track to realize its goal of mass-producing 14nm chips in 2022.
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| Boris Johnson to review risk of selling Newport Wafer to the Chinese |
7/9/2021 |
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“We have to judge whether the stuff that they are making is of real intellectual property value and interest to China, whether there are real security implications,” the PM told MPs, “we are looking into it. I have asked the national security adviser to review.”
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| Samsung realized $11 billion quarterly profit |
7/8/2021 |
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Samsung reported a likely 53% jump in second-quarter operating profit, beating market estimates on the back of strong chip prices and demand despite lower smartphone sales.
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| Intel wants to renew development base on "Sandy Lake" and "Sky Bridge" architects |
7/8/2021 |
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Intel announced that it is bringing back another one of its famed chip architects, 28-year veteran Shlomit Weiss. Weiss will lead all of Intel's consumer chip development and design. Weiss returns to Intel after a four-year stint as Mellanox/Nvidia's Senior VP of Silicon Engineering, where she ran the company's networking chip design group, a team of more than 1,000.
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| Laptop chip supply to ease in 4th Quarter |
7/7/2021 |
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But notebook demand is expected to drop significantly in the fourth quarter; the pandemic will gradually come under control; and additional production capacity for ICs will become available. Component shortages are expected to improve dramatically then.
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| Demand on Mobile DRAM pushes memory sales to new record in 2021 |
7/6/2021 |
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Global DRAM revenues rose to $19 billion in the first quarter of 2021, increasing by a solid 30% year-on-year (YoY) and 9% quarter-on-quarter. Distance education and work from home (WFH) continued propelling a substantial demand for smartphone and laptop DRAM, resulting in a 6% growth in bit shipment and a 3% rise in ASP over the previous quarter.
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| Marvell offers the OCTEON 10 DPU 5G chip with 5nm process |
7/6/2021 |
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According to Marvell it delivers three times the performance and 50 percent lower power compared to previous generations of OCTEON, an it is the first solution to be designed on a 5nm process to incorporate Arm Neoverse N2 cores.
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| TSMC's aggressive expansion has gone beyond its water and energy supply |
7/6/2021 |
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The Taiwanese company was only able to reduce the amount of water used during wafer fabrication by 8.9 percent, which fell short of its target, a 10 percent decrease, according to the TSMC report. Nikkei pointed out that TSMC’s daily water usage had jumped 25 percent to 193,000 tons in 2020.
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| Qualcomm to put bigger push on laptops |
7/5/2021 |
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Qualcomm Chief Executive Cristiano Amon told Reuters on Thursday he believes his company can have the best chip on the market, with help from a team of chip architects who formerly worked on the Apple chip but now work at Qualcomm.
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| EU approved AMD's acquisition of Xilinx |
7/5/2021 |
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"The proposed transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area given the absence of horizontal overlaps and vertical relationships between the activities of the companies,"
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| CEO Sanjay Mehrotra paints a rosy picture for Micron memories |
7/5/2021 |
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“The markets today are more diversified than ever. Automotive, electric vehicles requiring more memory and storage — actually becoming data centers on wheels in the future — and certainly smartphones, data centers, gaming, industrial applications” are all contributing to increased need for chips.
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| Apple and Intel are preparing to use TSMC 3nm process |
7/5/2021 |
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Apple and Intel are testing their chip designs with TSMC's 3-nanometer production technology, according to several sources briefed on the matter, with commercial output of such chips expected to start in the second half of next year.
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| An outline of NVMe 2.0 specifications and new features |
7/2/2021 |
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While maintaining backward compatibility with previous generations, NVMe 2.0 allows for faster and simpler development in what has become an increasingly diverse device environment that has expanded to include hard disk drives (HDDs). NVM Express president Amber Huffman said rearchitecting NVMe is all about meeting the evolving demands of the future of storage.
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| Analysts predict strong profit at Samsung |
7/2/2021 |
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The South Korean tech giant was projected to log 11.2 trillion-won (US$9.9) billion in operating profit for the April-June period, up 37.6 percent from a year earlier, while its sales were estimated to increase 15.8 percent on-year to 61.3 trillion won over the period.
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| Texas Instruments Inc.to acquire Micron Utah fab |
7/2/2021 |
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The factory, in Lehi, Utah, will be the fourth 300-millimeter wafer facility for the semiconductor company. It will also be used for 65-nanometer and 45-nm production for analog and embedded processing products.
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| Micron said it is doing great on memory business |
7/1/2021 |
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Micron Technology Inc. expects memory-chip demand to remain high even as the supply of other types of computer chips meets customer needs, the company said late Wednesday as its earnings and an outlook surpassed Wall Street expectations.
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