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| Tech companies joined together to lobby for semiconductor funding |
5/12/2021 |
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The newly formed Semiconductors in America Coalition, which also includes Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services, said Tuesday it has asked U.S. lawmakers to provide funding for the CHIPS for America Act, for which President Joe Biden has asked Congress to provide $50 billion.
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| UMC plans to expand capacity through collaboration model with its leading global customers |
5/11/2021 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) plans to expand capacity at its 300mm Fab 12A Phase 6 (P6) in Taiwan’s Tainan Science Park through a collaboration model with several of its leading global customers. Under this mutually beneficial arrangement, these customers will make a deposit that secures their long-term chip supply at P6 using pre-determined pricing.
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| SK hynix vowed to cut greenhouse gas emissions |
5/11/2021 |
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The company managed to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions per unit production thanks to efforts such as the recycling of resources across the company, a SK Hynix official said.
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| Intel’s first discrete graphics card for gamers could be coming soon |
5/10/2021 |
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Pete Brubaker, game development relations specialist at Intel, tweeted a new job listing at Intel that points to an upcoming release of the DG2. The position is for a Senior Game Developer Relations Engineer, who will partner with game developers around the world to help shape the technology that enables video games.
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| Profit increased at Winbond |
5/10/2021 |
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Winbond credited its positive performance during the first quarter to robust specialty DRAM and NOR flash demand, as well as rising product ASPs.
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| 2021 chip sales forecast to grow 12.5% |
5/10/2021 |
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Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to surge 12.5% to US$522 billion in 2021, driven by continued-robust growth in consumer, computing, 5G and automotive semiconductors, according to IDC.
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| IBM disclosed 2nm design to achieve 45% higher performance or 75% lower power |
5/7/2021 |
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IBM has unveiled the world’s first 2 nm chip, built at its R&D facility in Albany, New York. The test chip features gate-all-around transistors built with IBM’s nanosheet technology. Overall, IBM says the new process technology will enable 2 nm chips to achieve 45% higher performance or 75% lower power consumption than state-of-the art 7 nm chips in production today.
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| 2020 semiconductor revenue exceeds $470 billion |
5/7/2021 |
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In 2020, the semiconductor industry marked its third year in the last four of double-digit expansion. 2020 semiconductor revenue grew 10.4% in 2020 over 2019 to finish at $473.3 billion.
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| Biosensor startup offers respiratory monitoring into the home |
5/6/2021 |
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Scottish biosensor startup Altair Medical aims to bring hospital grade respiratory monitoring into the home and avoid premature deaths. It has raised £2.25 million (€2.6 million) of pre-series A funding to continue to develop its respiratory sensor and AI-based real-time monitoring platform.
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| IC shortage is forcing South Korea to go foreign sourcing |
5/6/2021 |
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South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy has confirmed that a collaboration request was sent to NXP on April 30 in the name of trade minister Sung Yun-mo. Although details of the letter were not disclosed, an industry source said the ministry had asked the company to boost chip production to meet the needs of domestic automakers.
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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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