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| NIKO Semiconductor predicts AI PCs, NEVs to Shine in 2024 |
1/24/2024 |
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Specializing in PC products such as motherboards, laptops, tablets, and peripheral power devices, NIKO Semiconductor is well-prepared to capitalize on this trend by aggressively entering the AI PC power management components market.
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| Intel, Nvidia move up in chip revenue ranking |
1/23/2024 |
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Intel Corp. to reclaim its position as the world’s top semiconductor supplier in terms of revenue, surpassing Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which came in first one year earlier. Nvidia Corp. also made an impressive climb in the rankings, breaking into the top five for the first time.
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| OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rounding up investors for chip plants |
1/23/2024 |
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is said to be working to raise funding for a network of chipmaking facilities, according to a report. G42 and SoftBank Group are reportedly in talks about the project, which could involve leading chip manufacturers.
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| Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says China is majorly behind in chip manufacturing |
1/23/2024 |
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said there is a "10-year gap" between China's chip manufacturing and the rest of the industry, and export controls are likely to keep that in place. "It's not like China is not going to keep innovating, but this is a highly interconnected industry," Gelsinger said.
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| Nokia putting almost $400M toward chips, AI in Germany |
1/22/2024 |
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Nokia said that this new investment will be made at its Ulm and Nuremberg sites, as part of a European Commission Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) initiative. The investment will be funded by Nokia and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) and the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.
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| Global Chip Sales Up 5.3% in November |
1/22/2024 |
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Monthly sales are compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization and represent a three-month moving average. SIA represents 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry by revenue and nearly two-thirds of non-U.S. chip firms.
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| Micron intros lineup of memory sticks based on LPDDR5X |
1/12/2024 |
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Micron Technology is introducing low-power compression attached memory modules for laptops and desktops. The LPCAMM2 memory sticks are based on LPDDR5X memory and come in capacities of 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes.
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| Global chip sales increased 5.3% to $48B in Nov. |
1/12/2024 |
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Semiconductor revenue worldwide amounted to $48 billion in November last year in a 5.3% increase from a year earlier, according to the Washington-based Semiconductor Industry Association. From a month earlier, sales rose 2.9%, a more moderate increase compared with October.
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| Ambarella debuts SoC to bring generative AI to edge |
1/12/2024 |
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Chip developer Ambarella is introducing its N1 system-on-chip series at CES with the aim of bringing generative AI to on-premise hardware and edge endpoint devices. The company says the SoC runs multimodal large language models more efficiently than graphics processing unit leaders.
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| Nvidia touts consumer graphics chips for AI at home |
1/11/2024 |
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Nvidia has released its latest graphics processing units -- the RTX 4060 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4080 Super -- and is pitching the consumer GPUs for "local" AI use rather than in the cloud. The chips are set to compete with similar local AI technology from Qualcomm, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.
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| Samsung to focus on tailored memory chips, Compute Express Link |
1/11/2024 |
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Samsung Electronics revealed plans to enhance its lineup of memory semiconductors used in various areas including cloud, on-device artificial intelligence, and vehicles by introducing tailored high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and other future solutions.
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| SK Hynix sees AI demand, HBM lifting its status |
1/10/2024 |
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SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung says demand for AI memory will likely double the company's value within three years. SK Hynix's high bandwidth memory products, used in Nvidia's AI accelerators, will center its strategy as it strives to remain a leader.
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| Taiwan choma explore new areas in testing |
1/10/2024 |
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2023 is a year of transformation,” says Eugene Lin, Vice President of Chroma ATE Inc., a Taiwan-based supplier of precision test and measurement instrumentation, automated test systems, and intelligent manufacturing systems and turnkey solutions.
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| SSD prices will go up as much as 50% in 2024, reports say |
1/9/2024 |
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>It is highlighted by Chinese industry experts that the SSD market is ready to combat with negative financial results, that have been pouring in for the past several quarters. After an aggressive wave of production cutdowns, manufacturers have started to increase NAND flash memory pricing, and they have already taken into effect.
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