semiconductors


The Best Time To Plant A Tree Is 20 Years Ago. The Best Time To Build A Semiconductor Foundry Is 5 Years Ago

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The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may Column  U... Read more

Japan To Dangle As Many Yen As It Takes To Lure Chipmakers To Its Shores, Because Everyone Else Is Doing It Too

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National growth strategy also prioritises low power distributed data centres Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga has... Read more

Silicon Foundries Surge To New Revenue Records, But Texas Cold Snap Sent Samsung Backwards

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TSMC is well on truly on top with 55 percent market share The world's top 10 semiconductor foundries set new records fo... Read more

As Samsung Breaks Ground On New EUV Semi Foundry, SK Hynix Mulls Expanding Its Logic And Contract Fab Businesses

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Analyst: 'Company may need to license 7nm and below process tech' With the world facing a drought of crucial semiconduc... Read more

If You Said The Semiconductor Shortage Will Last Until Q2 2022, You Would Be Correct, According To Gartner

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Chip in if you want more chips, analyst house suggests Gartner indicated today the ongoing chip shortages are likely to... Read more

Chipmaker TSMC To Build 'up To Five' More Factories In Arizona

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Copper State turns silicon? TSMC is said to be considering building up to five additional chip plants in Arizona as wel... Read more

Richer Each Day, Home And Huawei: Apple's Hunger For Snapdragon Modems, Smartphone Recovery Pays Off For Qualcomm

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A certain Chinese juggernaut's woes helped a bit, too San Diego HQ'd chipmaker Qualcomm has reported [PDF] quarterly fi... Read more

Japanese Auto Chipmaker Renesas Expects To Resume Full Production Next Month Following Fab Blaze

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Glimmer of hope on the semiconductor front – for the car industry anyway Japanese chipmaker Renesas has said it will ... Read more

Sitting Idle While Global Chips Fry: US Car Industry Asks Biden To Earmark Cash For Automotive Semiconductors

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Forget smartphones – whaddabout motors? The US automotive industry has warned it faces a bleak six months of disrupti... Read more

Qualcomm Closes Acquisition Of Chip Designer Nuvia: First Custom Cores To Launch Next Year

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2022 Snapdragon chipset aimed at high-performance ultraportables Qualcomm said today that its new internally designed C... Read more

Tata Motors Optimistic About Overcoming Semiconductors Supply Constraint

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Tata Motors is optimistic that the supply constraint of semiconductors that has impacted its commercial vehicles product... Read more

Thirsty Work: TSMC Starts Trucking In Water Amid Taiwan Drought To Keep Chip Production Lines Chugging

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Yet more woes for embattled industry As Taiwan grapples with a major drought, local chipmaker TSMC has started ordering... Read more

China's Semiconductor Self-sufficiency Drive Slid Backwards In 2020

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5.9 percent of silicon made at home now, goal is 70 percent in 2025 and the USA's sanctions seem to be biting China-own... Read more

The Chips Are Down. We Need Your Support, Semiconductor Industry Tells US President Biden

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How about some investment... or at least a tax break? The US semiconductor industry has sent an open letter to Presiden... Read more

As Huawei's Semiconductor Purchases Slip, Its Founder Tries A New Tactic: Flattery

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Ren Zhengfei wants to talk to the Biden administration Semiconductor purchases are a strong indicator of how the wider ... Read more

India Public Cloud Market To Reach Rs 63,000 Crore By FY25: Nasscom

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India's public cloud market stood at Rs 17,000 crore in FY2020 and is expected to grow at about 30 per cent CAGR to reac... Read more

DRAM, Son. Semiconductor Revenue Fell 12% Last Year. At Least 2020 Will Be Better, Right? Right?

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DRAM and NAND struggle with swollen inventories and low demand – Gartner Famed entrails poker Gartner has pegged reve... Read more

Poor Semiconductor Revenues Can't Catch A Break: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Wafer – Bam, Coronavirus

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Gartner predicts 2020 slump, but it'd be worse were it not for NAND flash Gartner, tech's equivalent of Mystic Meg, has... Read more

Samsung's Q1 Forecast Defies Coronavirus Downward Trends But It's Unlikely To Continue

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Don't get comfortable, Sammy Samsung has published its earnings guidance for Q1 2020, and it's looking fairly sunny for... Read more

In One Chart: How A Rally In Semiconductor Stocks May Herald A Global Growth Rebound

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Stock-market bulls see the record highs in semiconductor stocks as a sign that the synchronized slowdown in internationa... Read more