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Intel and Softbank explore alternative to HBM 6/10/2025
A new company set up by SoftBank and Intel, is developing a stacked DRAM alternative to HBM which uses half the power of HBM, reports the Nikkei.
April semi sales up 22.7% y-o-y 6/10/2025
“Global semiconductor sales in April ticked up on a month-to-month basis for the first time in 2025, and the global market continues to notch year-to-year growth driven by increasing sales into the Americas and Asia Pacific,”
Qualcomm to buy Alphawave to boost data center tech 6/10/2025
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Alphawave Semi for $2.4 billion to enhance its data center capabilities. Alphawave is known for high-speed connectivity and compute technologies, so the acquisition is seen as a complement to Qualcomm's power-efficient central processing unit and neural processing unit cores,
DRAM Revenue Down 5.5% in 1Q 2025 6/9/2025
The downturn was driven by falling contract prices for conventional DRAM and a contraction in HBM shipment volumes.
Canadians Hit by Wildfires Can Get Free Starlink Service Right Now 6/9/2025
:SpaceX is offering one free month of service to existing customers and those who have paused their accounts.
Williams International to build $1B aviation engine plant in Florida 6/9/2025
The Boeing supplier plans to begin construction on the Okaloosa County manufacturing campus this month due to “pressing customer demands.”
Microchip Spins Up Cost-Optimized Version of its PolarFire FPGAs 6/9/2025
The new low-power FPGAs and SoCs nix unnecessary transceivers for mid-range designs, cutting costs by 30%.
Amazon Is Prepping for a Future Where Robots Replace Human Delivery Drivers 6/6/2025
The company is reportedly constructing a 'humanoid park' in San Francisco where robots will ride on Rivian EVs and jump out to drop off packages.
A UAE aluminum giant could bring the US its first new aluminum plant since 1980 6/6/2025
The $4 billion smelter in Oklahoma would nearly double domestic production as the United States and United Arab Emirates roll out a host of investment partnerships.
Huawei plans to mass-produce 3nm chips by 2026 6/6/2025
On June 2, Chinese local media reported that Huawei is accelerating the development of gate-all-around (GAA) based 3nm chips in collaboration with SMIC, China’s largest foundry, based on its own design.
GlobalFoundries to spend $16B on chip production in US 6/6/2025
GlobalFoundries plans to invest $16 billion to expand its US chip manufacturing -- $13 billion for factory expansions in Vermont and New York and $3 billion for advanced packaging and new technologies such as silicon photonics and gallium nitride. The company is working with Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductors and others to support its production of US-made chips.
Micron shipping world’s first 1-Gamma-based LPDDR5X 6/5/2025
Micron Technology has started shipping qualification samples of the world’s first 1? (1-gamma) node-based low-power double data rate 5X (LPDDR5X) memory.
Broadcom ships Tomahawk 6, world’s first 102.4 Tbps switch in a single chip 6/5/2025
Broadcom has begun shipping its Tomahawk 6 switch series, the first to offer 102.4 terabits per second of switching capacity on a single chip, doubling the bandwidth of existing Ethernet switches. Designed for AI networks, the switch supports 100G/200G SerDes and co-packaged optics.
Samsung Confirms It's Making an 'Ultra' Foldable Galaxy Phone 6/5/2025
Samsung teases a new Ultra edition of its Galaxy Z Fold 7, rumored to be launching in July.
T-Mobile Officially Launches Its Fiber Service: 6/5/2025
With its acquisition of Lumos complete, T-Mobile aims to deploy high-speed internet fiber to 12 million to 15 million homes in the US by 2030. And it's promising a five-year price lock.
Silicon Labs and Wirepas Surpass 10 Million Chipsets 6/4/2025
Silicon Labs and Wirepas have shipped 10 million wireless SoCs running Wirepas' RF mesh connectivity software.
Anglia joins Alliance Memory to support legacy products 6/4/2025
Anglia Components has signed on with Alliance Memory to supply legacy and new memory products, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory. Alliance's products are pin-for-pin replacements for those from companies including Cypress, Infineon, Micron, Nanya and Samsung.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite variant rumored to havQualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite variant rumored to have 50% more CPU cores with 18 cores and 64GB RAM 6/4/2025
And the certainty that these SoCs will pack 18 Oryon V3 cores continues to grow.
Reconfiguring the Future of Computing 6/3/2025
Once viewed as niche solutions for prototyping and specialized workloads, FPGAs are increasingly being embraced as critical enablers of performance, flexibility, and power efficiency across a broad spectrum of applications—from accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) systems and 5G to automotive and the industrial sector.
Ford recalls over 1M vehicles for defective backup camera software 6/3/2025
The automaker also recalled 160K vehicles in April to address rearview camera faults caused by a loose circuit board connector.
Ex-TSMC executive joins Samsung Foundry to lead US expansion 6/3/2025
The S.Korean chip giant’s new US foundry head, Margaret Han, worked for TSMC for more than 20 years
Intel, SoftBank eyeing a DRAM alternative to HBM 6/3/2025
Intel and SoftBank have reportedly formed Saimemory to develop a stacked dynamic random-access memory alternative to high-bandwidth memory, targeting commercialization by 2029, according to a Nikkei report. The initiative, which is expected to cost up to $70 million, will be tasked to halve power consumption compared with HBM
Motorola to acquire defense radio maker for $4.4B 6/2/2025
The deal with Silvus Technologies would expand the company’s portfolio to include mobile ad-hoc network devices used by the military for data transmission and communications.
Elon Musk Outlines Ambitious Plan to Produce 10K Starlink Satellites Per Year 6/2/2025
In a presentation to SpaceX employees about plans to colonize Mars, Musk also said he wants SpaceX to make a staggering 1,000 Starship vehicles per year.
DRAM prices have jumped by 20% for the second month in a row 6/2/2025
Companies are buying as much memory as they can during the 90-day window on tariffs.
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