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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…
Samsung Foundry, Anaflash partner on embedded flash memory
Samsung Foundry, Anaflash partner on embedded flash memory
Technology News |
Embedded AI processor developer Anaflash Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is working with Samsung Foundry to develop embedded flash memory IP. As…
Tower partners for optical fiber die attach
Tower partners for optical fiber die attach
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Speciality foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) is collaborating with Teramount Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel) on connecting optical fibers to…
China’s chip market drops by a third as global free fall continues
China’s chip market drops by a third as global free fall continues
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The value of the global chip market continued to fall in January with China’s market losing 31.6 percent of its…

Foxconn plans $700 million iPhone factory in India
Foxconn plans $700 million iPhone factory in India
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Apple supplier Foxconn plans to spend U$700 million building a factory in Bengaluru, India that could create 100,000 jobs, according to Bloomberg report. The move would appear part of an…
Chip associations seek collaboration, calm in China
Chip associations seek collaboration, calm in China
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The Joint Steering Committee (JSTC) of the World Semiconductor Council (WSC) is due to meet in Xiamen, China, March 7 to 10, with all the world’s major regional bodies set…
Memory dominates leading-edge chip manufacture
Memory dominates leading-edge chip manufacture
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Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix accounted for 76 percent of leading-edge wafer capacity at the end of 2022, according to the Global Wafer Capacity report from Knometa Research. Knometa has…
IMEC’s ‘virtual fab’ models climate impact of chipmaking processes
IMEC’s ‘virtual fab’ models climate impact of chipmaking processes
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Research institute IMEC has developed a ‘virtual fab’ as part of its net-zero modelling platform to help chipmakers assess manufacturing choices for their environmental impact and direct R&D. This work…
Rapidus selects Hokkaido for 2nm wafer fab site
Rapidus selects Hokkaido for 2nm wafer fab site
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Rapidus Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), the newly-formed logic foundry aiming at 2nm production, has selected Chitose City, on the northern island of Hokkaido, as the location for its wafer fab.
UK chip strategy roll out expected in March
UK chip strategy roll out expected in March
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The UK government’s long-awaited semiconductor strategy is now expected to be rolled out by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in March 2023. While the European Union and the United States have…
China dominates semiconductor patent activity
China dominates semiconductor patent activity
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There have been 69,190 global patents for semiconductors filed in year to September 30, 2022, and 55 percent were filed by Chinese entities, according to Mathys & Squire, an intellectual…
ASML admits Chinese data theft may have broken export controls
ASML admits Chinese data theft may have broken export controls
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The world’s leading supplier of lithography equipment, ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands), has lost technology secrets to a, now, former Chinese employee. ASML is a monopoly supplier of extreme…
Pragmatic CEO tells UK government, support us or we leave
Pragmatic CEO tells UK government, support us or we leave
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Scott White, CEO of Pragmatic Semiconductor, is the latest chip boss to signal to the UK government that it must provide an economic support program or his company will relocate.
TSMC’s sales growth slows as UMC’s sales decline
TSMC’s sales growth slows as UMC’s sales decline
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Sales at leading foundry TSMC in January grew year-on-year but at a lower rate than in previous months, while fellow Taiwanese foundry UMC saw its January sales decline both sequentially…
IMEC semiconductor roadmap shows end of metal-pitch scaling
IMEC semiconductor roadmap shows end of metal-pitch scaling
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The IMEC research institute has published a roadmap graphic that shows semiconductor scaling continuing on from a nominal 2nm node to reach higher densities in 2036 However, the roadmap shows…
UK could lose wafer maker IQE over delayed chip strategy
UK could lose wafer maker IQE over delayed chip strategy
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IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of compound semiconductor wafers, could relocate abroad unless the UK government sets out its strategy for semiconductors quickly. That is according to The…
ST linked to Indian fab project as former NXP exec appointed
ST linked to Indian fab project as former NXP exec appointed
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STMicroelectronics could become a partner in a Vedanta-Foxconn joint venture created to build a wafer fab in Gujurat, India, according to reports. At the same time Indian metals-to-mining conglomerate Vedanta…
Top ten chip buyers spending dropped by 7.6% in 2022
Top ten chip buyers spending dropped by 7.6% in 2022
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In a global chip market that grew 1.1 percent the top ten buyers saw their market share decline, according to market research firm Gartner. A 7.6 percent drop in chip…
Americas chip market follows Asia’s into decline
Americas chip market follows Asia’s into decline
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The Americas chip market was 6.6 percent smaller in 4Q22 than a year before, according to figures from the SIA. The Americas was growing quickly earlier in the year but…
UK chip strategy will include taxpayer funding
UK chip strategy will include taxpayer funding
Business news |
The creation of a semiconductor strategy for the UK is close to completion and will include direct funding by government of startup and scale-up companies as well as incentives for…
SIA, IESA taskforce improves India’s chip outlook
SIA, IESA taskforce improves India’s chip outlook
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The US-based Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and its Indian equivalent, the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), are forming a taskforce to strengthen collaboration between the two countries in the…
Infineon grows strongly, confirms guidance
Infineon grows strongly, confirms guidance
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Quarterly figures show positive development despite adverse economic environment…
Wolfspeed, ZF join forces to advance SiC technology
Wolfspeed, ZF join forces to advance SiC technology
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Joint R&C centre will focus on e-mobility, renewable energies…
Cross-vendor data platform for automotive industry takes shape
Cross-vendor data platform for automotive industry takes shape
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Joint venture kicks off Catena-X data ecosystem…
YMTC laying off 10% of workforce
YMTC laying off 10% of workforce
Business news |
Memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) is laying off up to 10 percent of its workforce, according to a South China Morning Post report. The SCMP account links…
TechUK offers chip plan to UK government
TechUK offers chip plan to UK government
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TechUK, a trade organization that represents more than 900 companies in the UK, has produced a five-point plan for the development of the country’s chip sector. The trade body said…
Chip bottleneck threatens to curb car industry in the long term
Chip bottleneck threatens to curb car industry in the long term
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Industry association calls for expansion of chip production with suitable structure sizes…
Intel goes slow, casts doubt on Italian chiplet fab
Intel goes slow, casts doubt on Italian chiplet fab
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Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger has cast doubt on Italy as the location for a US$5 billion chiplet assembly plant, saying other locations are possible. Intel is also apparently slowing down…


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