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Report: Chinese firms breaking Russian embargo with US chips
Report: Chinese firms breaking Russian embargo with US chips
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Chinese firms are breaking US sanctions by re-exporting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of US chips to Russia over…
China’s chip buying crashed in 1Q23 as Biden sanctions bit
China’s chip buying crashed in 1Q23 as Biden sanctions bit
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The value of China’s 1Q23 chip imports fell nearly 27 percent compared with the same quarter a year before, according…
TSMC could partner with Bosch for 28nm fab in Germany
TSMC could partner with Bosch for 28nm fab in Germany
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Leading foundry TSMC could partner with Robert Bosch and two other automotive suppliers to create a joint-venture 300mm fab in…
Rapidus secures US$2.3 billion to start 2nm wafer fab
Rapidus secures US$2.3 billion to start 2nm wafer fab
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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), is finalizing plans to provide Rapidus Co. Ltd. with 300 billion yen…

Report: Next Orbit to sell stake in Indian wafer fab
Report: Next Orbit to sell stake in Indian wafer fab
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Next Orbit Ventures, the lead partner in the ISMC wafer fab consortium, has agreed to sell its entire to B C Jindal Group, a maker of steel pipe and plastic…
Mojo Vision appoints CEO, pivots away from smart contact lens
Mojo Vision appoints CEO, pivots away from smart contact lens
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MicroLED developer Mojo Vision has announced a $22.4 million round of funding to help it move from developing smart contact lens to displays. The company has also appointed Nikhil Balram,…
TSMC’s March sales drop 15 percent
TSMC’s March sales drop 15 percent
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Leading foundry TSMC experienced an annual fall in sales in March as it finally felt the market weakness that has been affecting much of the rest of the semiconductor industry…
Top 25 global and Chinese chip companies ranked
Top 25 global and Chinese chip companies ranked
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Market analyst Gartner Inc. has produced the ranking of the top 25 semiconductor manufacturers in the world and in mainland China by 2022 revenues. This shows that global semiconductor revenue…
SemiFive helps FuriosaAI ‘Warboy’ processor get to market
SemiFive helps FuriosaAI ‘Warboy’ processor get to market
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SemiFive Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea), a RISC-V based chip designer, has said that it helped develop the Warboys chip for FuriosaAI and that the chip is in mass production.
ChatGPT leaking Samsung chip secrets is iceberg’s tip
ChatGPT leaking Samsung chip secrets is iceberg’s tip
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Samsung – amongst others – is wrestling with whether to ban employees accessing ChatGPT, after the controversial AI chatbot started sharing confidential information, according to reports. The Samsung information that…
Japan’s 2nm hope Rapidus, joins IMEC’s ‘Core’ research program
Japan’s 2nm hope Rapidus, joins IMEC’s ‘Core’ research program
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Rapidus Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), the newly-formed logic foundry aiming at 2nm production, has joined the Core Partner Program of research institute IMEC (Leuven, Belgium). IMEC and Rapidus signed a…
NXP is urging TSMC, Globalfoundries to set up in India
NXP is urging TSMC, Globalfoundries to set up in India
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NXP Semiconductors, is in discussions with foundry partners, such as TSMC and Globalfoundries, about setting up chip manufacturing in India, according to the Economic Times. The newspaper conducted an interview…
Japan adds to chipmaking equipment export restrictions
Japan adds to chipmaking equipment export restrictions
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As expected, Japan has followed the Netherlands in enacting a US call for export controls on equipment capable of making sub-14nm integrated circuits, in a move that will limit China’s…
Automotive, industrial sectors lead chip market growth
Automotive, industrial sectors lead chip market growth
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The automotive and industrial sectors are set to exhibit the strongest growth in demand for semiconductors during the decade 2021 to 2030, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The semiconductor…
Foundry X-Fab signs Sarawak firm to develop IP
Foundry X-Fab signs Sarawak firm to develop IP
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X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE (Erfurt, Germany), a maker of analog and mixed-signal circuits and MEMS, has signed Sarawak Microelectronics Design Semiconductor Sdn Bhd (Kuching, Malaysia) to provide chip design services.
South Korea’s chipmaking spend to overtake China’s in 2024
South Korea’s chipmaking spend to overtake China’s in 2024
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South Korea is set to overtake China and rank second in spending on chipmaking equipment for 2024, according to industry body SEMI. Taiwan is expected to remain the top ranked…
Intel acknowledges Tower takeover delay
Intel acknowledges Tower takeover delay
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Intel has given itself another quarter to try and close its deal to acquire specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek). Intel announced a US$5.4 billion plan to acquire Tower…
Business planner Pann to lead Intel Foundry Services
Business planner Pann to lead Intel Foundry Services
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Intel has appointed Stuart Pann as senior vice president and general manager of Intel Foundry Services (IFS). Pann was previously chief business transformation officer and general manager of Intel’s Corporate…
Former chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup to be charged
Former chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup to be charged
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Zhao Weiguo, the former chairman of Chinese semiconductor company Tsinghua Unigroup, has been handed over to China’s legal system and faces charges of corruption. Zhao has been transferred to the…
Fully epitaxial ScAlN transistor is reconfigurable
Fully epitaxial ScAlN transistor is reconfigurable
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A research team at the University of Michigan has demonstrated a reconfigurable scandium-aluminum-nitride ferroelectric high-electron mobility transistor (FeHEMT). The team claims that building such a device in a nanoscale thin…
Better 2D semiconductors signposted by materials review
Better 2D semiconductors signposted by materials review
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a computer study of a materials database looking for 2D semiconductors with characteristics that correlate with high mobility. The team…
Mitsubishi doubles down on silicon-carbide with wafer fab
Mitsubishi doubles down on silicon-carbide with wafer fab
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Mitsubishi Electric has said it will double the budget for a previously announced plan for the production of silicon-carbide power semiconductors. Mitsubishi said it now plans to spend 260 billion…
Ministry official to lead China’s troubled ‘Big Fund’
Ministry official to lead China’s troubled ‘Big Fund’
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Zhang Xin, a former inspector at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has been appointed general manager of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, otherwise known as The…
TSMC, Globalfoundries gained as foundry market cooled
TSMC, Globalfoundries gained as foundry market cooled
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The foundry market dipped sequentially in the 4Q22 but Globalfoundries was able to grow sales, according to TrendForce. This was the first dip after 13 quarters of consecutive growth the…
TSMC continues to defy market, increases sales
TSMC continues to defy market, increases sales
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February sales at TSMC grew year-on-year while those at fellow Taiwanese foundry UMC showed a steep annual decline. In February TSMC achieved sales of NT$163.17 billion (about US$5.3 billion) up…
US, India to sign MoU on semiconductors, says report
US, India to sign MoU on semiconductors, says report
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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US and India will sign a memorandum of understanding on semiconductors to help them coordinate investment, according to a Reuters report. Raimondo is…
IQE loses a third of its value on trading update
IQE loses a third of its value on trading update
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The price of shares in IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of compound semiconductor wafers, fell by a third after the company issued a trading update. The fall in…
Netherlands adds DUV lithography equipment to export controls
Netherlands adds DUV lithography equipment to export controls
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As expected the Netherlands has fallen in line with the US by adding deep ultra violet lithography equipment to export controls in a move designed to hobble China’s ability to…


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