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| Infineon to build new 200mm SiC fab in Malaysia |
8/7/2023 |
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Over and above the original investment announced in February 2022—Infineon will build the world’s largest 200-millimeter silicon carbide (SiC) Power Fab. The planned expansion is backed by customer commitments covering about €5 billion of new design-wins in automotive and industrial applications as well as about one billion euros in pre-payments.
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| Intel's Arc A580 GPU keeps the market guessing |
8/7/2023 |
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The Arc A580 comes with 24 Xe cores, 8GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit bus, and the same bandwidth as the Arc A750 and the 8GB version of the Arc A770 — 512GB/s. The maximum clock speed is said to be 1.7GHz, but the card surpassed it by far in the benchmark, maxing out at 2.4GHz.
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| Hyundai, Kia, Samsung back AI chip startup Tenstorrent |
8/7/2023 |
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Tenstorrent, which before this funding had already raised $234.5 million was valued at $1 billion, is one of several upstarts looking to challenge Nvidia (NVDA.O), the market leader in supplying chips to develop artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT.
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| Leading IC Firms Partner to Drive RISC-V Ecosystem Development |
8/7/2023 |
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Formed in Germany, this company will aim to accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The company will be a single source to enable compatible RISC-V based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions widely used in the industry. Initial application focus will be automotive.
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| Teledyne LeCroy offers SSD Power and Sideband Test Capabilities |
8/4/2023 |
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SSD design and validation test engineers can now use the OakGate R350-G5-PowerPlus Rackmount Appliance to analyze voltage and current over time and under stress to determine SSD power utilization, efficiency, and consumption, and possibly find opportunities to improve SSD power consumption.
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| Wave of used DDR4 DRAM are getting into new memory modules |
8/3/2023 |
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Besides putting additional downward pricing pressure on a market that has almost imploded compared to its historic levels, there's also a justified concern that products packing these chips might fail earlier than expected.
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| Companies are steadily designing their own custom silicon |
8/3/2023 |
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This trend doesn’t benefit suppliers of standard CPUs and SoCs like AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. But it’s very beneficial for other industry players, such as developers of EDA software, IP houses, contract chip designers and, of course, foundries.
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| TeamGroup offers JEDEC-compliant DDR5-6400 kit |
8/2/2023 |
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DDR5 memory specification allows for speeds as high as DDR5-6400, but to date we've only seen on-spec kits (and processors) as fast as DDR5-5600. But at last, it looks like things are about to change and DDR5 is set to live up to its full potential
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| Micron committed to ship from India |
8/1/2023 |
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Micron on Friday reaffirmed its commitment to establish India's first semiconductor plant in Gujarat, creating 5,000 direct jobs and addressing demand from domestic and international markets.
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| India aims to lure US chipmakers with incentives, alliances |
8/1/2023 |
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India’s chip strategy consists of two major parts. The first is luring in foreign firms to set up operations and invest in the country while the second is on forming alliances with other key semiconductor nations like the U.S.
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| Intel invests in education to address worker shortfall |
8/1/2023 |
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Intel is preparing for the opening of two semiconductor plants east of Columbus, Ohio by 2025, according to WOSU Public Media. The company intends to hire around 3,000 employees initially and is investing $17.7 million in eight academic institutions over three years for course development, equipment, and recruitment of students.
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| TSMC pledge loyal ty to the Taiwan government |
7/31/2023 |
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TSMC production lines have expanded beyond Taiwan as Western powers have raised concerns about the crucial industry being centred on an island that China claims as its territory -- having ramped up political and military pressure on it over the past year.
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| Intel is back in the black after two quarters |
7/31/2023 |
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Intel, after two quarters of losses, returned to profitability in the second quarter and is outpacing analyst expectations in its Q3 forecast. CEO Pat Gelsinger says the plan is to "build AI into every product that we build.
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