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| TSMC Arizona site to concentrate on 3nm |
11/16/2022 |
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TSMC has led a wave of new fab investments in the U.S. as part of a national effort to rebuild the domestic semiconductor industry centered around the CHIPS Act.
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| GlobalFoundries is planning layoffs and hiring freeze |
11/15/2022 |
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The company Friday informed its employees of the impending workforce reductions, without disclosing when exactly they would occur or which divisions would be affected. The chipmaker said Tuesday during an earnings call that it was working on initiatives to lower its operating expenses by $200 million annually.
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| SSDs Get Smarter with computational storage |
11/15/2022 |
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3D NAND flash–based SSDs are no longer just a place to store data for fast access. Coupled with DRAM, they’re now the primary storage for many devices, including some laptops. Thanks to advances in controller technology, firmware and software can do a lot more on their own at a time when data is growing exponentially through artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine learning (ML)-driven workloads.
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| Navitas Semiconductor and VREMT opened joint R&D power semiconductor laboratory |
11/14/2022 |
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GaN and SiC are ‘wide bandgap’ power semiconductors that deliver higher efficiency at faster switching speeds, with smaller system size and lower costs than legacy silicon chips. These advances will enable EV power conversion systems to deliver faster-charging, faster-acceleration, longer-range and lower-cost EVs which will accelerate our planet’s transition from fossil-fuel to clean-air vehicles.
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| Kyocera AVX expands component manufacturing in Thailand |
11/14/2022 |
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Kyocera AVX has expanded its global presence with the completion of a $300 million advanced manufacturing facility for ceramic and tantalum capacitors in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. The new facility features 1.2 million square feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing and warehousing space.
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| SK hynix offers power saving process for DDR5 mobile DRAMs |
11/10/2022 |
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SK hynix has successfully applied breakthrough solution dubbed HKMG, a thin High-K metal gate, to replace existing gate oxide to enhance reliability and scaling-up in transistors on DRAM chipsets for mobile devices for higher performance at low power setting.
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| Chipmaker GlobalFoundries beats estimate |
11/10/2022 |
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The contract chip manufacturer reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 67 cents per share, up by seven cents from the same quarter last year and ahead of Wall Street’s consensus estimate of 62 cents.
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| Microchip MCU Targeted at Smart Meter |
11/9/2022 |
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The PIC32CXMT family of 32-bit microprocessors with a new MPL460 Power Line Communication (PLC) modem. The new suite of MCU devices is a next-generation smart metering platform targeting industrial IoT, commercial and industrial metering applications. The platform boasts increased performance with up to 200MHz operation and broad scalability with up to 560kB of memory (SRAM).
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| Tablet and Chromebook Shipments Continue Slide in Q3 |
11/8/2022 |
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Sanctions from many vendors also enabled Chinese vendors like Huawei to perform well in the Russian market. Meanwhile, the emergence of low-priced Chinese OEMs like Realme, Xiaomi, Oppo and others, has fueled strong competition in the lower range devices. However, these gains still couldn’t offset the decline experienced by the main tablet vendors.
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