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Global foundry industry output to reach US$81.94 billion in 2023 |
10/9/2018 |
TSMC and other major pure-play foundries will continue expanding fab capacities through 2023, when the top-4 vendors will see their combined capacities reach 67,078,000 8-inch equivalent wafers annually representing a CAGR of 6.8% in the five-year forecast period.
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Samsung still reaping record profit from memory bloom |
10/8/2018 |
But sharp price slides for some types of chips have brought an end to a two-year super cycle of tight supply and soaring demand, and analysts expect the July-September quarter will mark a peak in earnings for the South Korean tech giant.
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TSMC projected to tape out 5nm by April 2019 |
10/8/2018 |
TSMC taped out its first chip in a process making limited use of extreme ultraviolet lithography and will start risk production in April on a 5-nm node with full EUV.
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Xilinx offers AI accelerator card |
10/5/2018 |
According to the company, customers can expect breakthrough performance improvement at low latency when running key data centre applications like real-time machine learning inference as well as video processing, genomics, and data analytics, among others.
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TSMC ramps 7nm with EUV layers |
10/5/2018 |
TSMC announced that it taped out a customer chip in an N7+ node that can use EUV on up to four layers. EUV aims to lower costs by reducing the number of masks required for leading-edge designs.
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New flash production line at SK Hynix |
10/5/2018 |
The company said the new M15 line in Cheongju, covers some 60,000 square meters and will play a key role in bolstering the competitiveness of South Korea's chip industry as a whole.
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Winbond breaks ground for it new memory fab. |
10/4/2018 |
“The investment is the largest scale in the history of the park in Kaohsiung’s Lujhu District, surpassing all capital that has been invested over the past 15 years,”
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North Korea steals from banks globally |
10/4/2018 |
North Korean group has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars by infiltrating the computer systems of banks around the world since 2014 through highly sophisticated and destructive attacks that have spanned at least 11 countries.
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Semiconductor sales continue to grow |
10/3/2018 |
The three-month average of chip sales in August grew to a record $40.16 billion, up 1.7% from July and up 14.9% compared to August 2017, according to the SIA.
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DRAM prices expected to retreat |
10/2/2018 |
“DRAM products have begun to see a weak price trend since 3Q18 after the price growth of nine consecutive quarters,"
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ST Micro FingerTip Touch Screen Controller found in Xiaomi handsets |
10/2/2018 |
“ST’s industry-proven FingerTip TSC technology enables advanced multi-touch UI on many devices with a single-chip solution, with high and uniform sensitivity on all panels, including curved screen areas and new AMOLED displays, making it perfectly suited for the latest smartphone designs”
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Intel tunes up Capex spending |
10/2/2018 |
The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker has added an extra $1 billion to its capital equipment budget this year, increasing output from existing facilities in the U.S., Ireland and Israel.
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