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Europe and memory markets cause WSTS rethink
Europe and memory markets cause WSTS rethink
Market news |
The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization has recalculated its Spring 2022 forecast of the global chip market due to…
Samsung breaks ground on $15 billion chip R&D center
Samsung breaks ground on $15 billion chip R&D center
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Samsung Electronics has broken ground on a semiconductor R&D facility in Giheung, Korea, where it plans to spend KRW 20…
Fall in global chip market growth accelerates
Fall in global chip market growth accelerates
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The annual growth of the global chip market stood at 13.3 percent in June, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association,…
Chinese invasion of Taiwan would make TSMC ‘not operable’, says chairman
Chinese invasion of Taiwan would make TSMC ‘not operable’, says chairman
Business news |
Mark Liu, chairman of foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., has said that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would render…

GaN FinFET funded, aims for 5G applications
GaN FinFET funded, aims for 5G applications
News |
Finwave Semiconductor Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) has raised $12.2 million in Series A funding following a $4.3 million award from the US government. The monies will be used to bring a…
CEO interview: Americo Lemos of IQE on scaling up
CEO interview: Americo Lemos of IQE on scaling up
Interviews |
eeNews Europe talks to Americo Lemos, newly appointed CEO of wafer maker IQE in Wales. Lemos has been in post for six months having joined IQE from Globalfoundries in January…
US chip suppliers dominate R&D spending
US chip suppliers dominate R&D spending
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The US and Asia-Pacific have increased their share of global semiconductor R&D over the last ten years at the expense of Europe and Japan, according to IC Insights. Despite political…
Analyst Penn casts blame on Nexperia as Newport takeover investigated
Analyst Penn casts blame on Nexperia as Newport takeover investigated
Business news |
Malcolm Penn, semiconductor industry analyst and former director of Newport Wafer Fab Ltd., has said that Chinese-owned Nexperia pushed the chip maker to the brink of bankruptcy before mounting a…
TSMC, UMC to visit India to consider manufacturing
TSMC, UMC to visit India to consider manufacturing
Business news |
A delegation from Taiwan, including representatives from foundries TSMC and UMC, will visit India to investigate setting up wafer fabs, according to local reports. The date of the visit has…
Second-gen SmartSSD aims to expand boundaries of next-gen storage
Second-gen SmartSSD aims to expand boundaries of next-gen storage
New Products |
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has successfully developed a second generation of its SmartSSD computational storage drive.
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
Business news |
IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of engineered wafers, wants UK government support to help it create the “TSMC of compound semiconductors” in South Wales. Americo Lemos, the CEO…
CEO interview: The scale-up vision of IQE’s Americo Lemos
CEO interview: The scale-up vision of IQE’s Americo Lemos
Interviews |
eeNews Europe visited the Newport manufacturing site of IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of compound semiconductor engineered wafers and substrates, to interview CEO Americo Lemos. Lemos has been…
IQE sues Tower Semi over porous silicon
IQE sues Tower Semi over porous silicon
Business news |
Welsh wafer maker IQE has filed a lawsuit against foundry Tower Semiconductor in Israel. IQE, based in Cardiff, claims there is evidence suggesting misappropriation of IQE’s trade secrets relating to…
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps Unisoc alive with Foxconn tie
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps Unisoc alive with Foxconn tie
Business news |
Tsinghua Unigroup has been acquired by Beijing Zhiguangxin Holding in a move that gives its chip making subsidiaries Unisoc – the merger of Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics – and…
Wafer maker IQE sues foundry Tower over porous silicon
Wafer maker IQE sues foundry Tower over porous silicon
Business news |
IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of engineered wafers and substrates, has announced it has filed a lawsuit against foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel). IQE claims there…
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps chip firms alive
Tsinghua Unigroup buy-out keeps chip firms alive
Business news |
Debt-ridden Tsinghua Unigroup, one of China’s largest semiconductor conglomerates, has been acquired by Beijing Zhiguangxin Holding. The new parent brings an equity-for-debt plan and a 60 billion yuan (about US$8.9…
Crolles fab helps keep Europe in deep tech
Crolles fab helps keep Europe in deep tech
Opinion |
The news that ST’s Crolles site in France will gain another 300mm wafer fab and a base for further FDSOI process development is a good thing for Europe, the companies…
Monitor, response parts of European Chips Act misguided, says think tank
Monitor, response parts of European Chips Act misguided, says think tank
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The European Commission’s proposed use of national governments to monitor and respond to the semiconductor supply chain won’t work, according to Stiftung Neue Verantwortung eV, an independent, non-profit think tank…
Panasonic sues Broadcom over semiconductor patents
Panasonic sues Broadcom over semiconductor patents
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Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan) filed lawsuits against chip company Broadcom Corp. in the western district of Texas alleging patent infringement on Thursday July 7. Panasonic alleges that Broadcom –…
Opinion: Next Crolles wafer fab helps keep Europe in the deep tech game
Opinion: Next Crolles wafer fab helps keep Europe in the deep tech game
Opinion |
The news that ST’s Crolles site in France will gain another 300mm wafer fab and a base for further FDSOI process development is a good thing for Europe, the companies…
Foundries see cancellations as consumer spending slows
Foundries see cancellations as consumer spending slows
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Foundries have seen a wave of order cancellations, mainly behind the leading edge of production, and the chip manufacturing capacity utilization rate has started fall, according to market research firm…
Newport chip foundry still possible says Nexperia
Newport chip foundry still possible says Nexperia
Business news |
A foundry at the Newport wafer fab in Wales, UK, is still possible, a senior executive from Nexperia has told UK law makers. Toni Versluijs, UK country manager at Nexperia,…
Foundries face order cancellations as consumer spending slows
Foundries face order cancellations as consumer spending slows
Market news |
Foundries have seen a wave of order cancellations, mainly behind the leading edge of production, and the chip manufacturing capacity utilization rate has started fall, according to TrendForce. The market…
Newport chip foundry is still possible, Nexperia’s Versluijs tells MPs
Newport chip foundry is still possible, Nexperia’s Versluijs tells MPs
Business news |
Toni Versluijs, UK country manager at Nexperia, has told UK members of parliament that his company’s offer to support a compound semiconductor foundry within Nexperia Newport has been on the…
Going down: Annual chip market growth continued to soften in May
Going down: Annual chip market growth continued to soften in May
Market news |
Recent trends in the global chip market continued in May with the Americas region maintaining strong growth while Chinese market annual growth fell again. The global chip market was worth…
Nexperia executive to give evidence to UK government
Nexperia executive to give evidence to UK government
Business news |
Toni Versluijs, country manager at Nexperia UK, will give oral evidence to Members of Parliament about the domestic semiconductor sector on Tuesday July 5 in the morning. Versluijs, who is…
5G module to unleash Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) potential
5G module to unleash Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) potential
New Products |
IoT solutions provider Quectel Wireless Solutions has unveiled a computing module for operation on Android that integrates 5G New Radio (NR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The SG560D is equipped…
Weakening chip market forces another forecast downgrade
Weakening chip market forces another forecast downgrade
Market news |
The weakening of the semiconductor market, due to inflation, Covid-related shutdowns in China, lingering supply-chain issues and the war in Ukraine has forced a downgrade at market research firm Semiconductor…


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