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IQE strikes strategic collaboration deal with SK Siltron
IQE strikes strategic collaboration deal with SK Siltron
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Engineered wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has formed a partnership with South Korea’s SK Siltron for the development and…
ECO solution delivers fastest path to chip design closure
ECO solution delivers fastest path to chip design closure
New Products |
Electronic design automation company Synopsys has announced what it claims is the breakthrough golden signoff engineering change order (ECO) solution…
Foundries defy chipmarket downturn
Foundries defy chipmarket downturn
Market news |
Taiwanese foundries TSMC and UMC were able to maintain strong progress year-on-year with September sales while the global chip market…
Infineon commissions new power semiconductor plant in Hungary
Infineon commissions new power semiconductor plant in Hungary
Business news |
Cegléd plant represents an investment of € 100 million…

ST to build silicon-carbide substrate factory in Italy
ST to build silicon-carbide substrate factory in Italy
Business news |
European chip maker STMicroelectronics NV has announced a plan to build an integrated silicon-carbide epitaxial substrate manufacturing facility in Catania, Italy, at a cost of $730 million. The money will…
Micron to build $100 billion megafab in New York state
Micron to build $100 billion megafab in New York state
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Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has said it will spend $100 billion over the next 20-plus years to build a megafab in Clay, New York. A $20…
August figures show chip market fall approaches
August figures show chip market fall approaches
Market news |
The global semiconductor market is heading for a fall earlier and deeper than market forecasters have so far predicted. The annual growth of the global chip market was 0.1 percent…
Global chip market flat in August, decline imminent
Global chip market flat in August, decline imminent
Market news |
The global chip market is headed into a decline that looks set to start earlier and be deeper than market forecasters have so far predicted. The annual growth of the…
Samsung tips plans for 14 angstrom process
Samsung tips plans for 14 angstrom process
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Samsung is planning to follow mass production of its 2nm process in 2025 with a 1.4nm process in 2027, the company announced at its annual Samsung Foundry Forum event held…
3nm process technology for mobile, HPC and AI designs
3nm process technology for mobile, HPC and AI designs
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Electronic design automation company Synopsys has announced that its longstanding collaboration with contract chip maker Samsung Foundry has produced multiple successful test chip tapeouts on Synopsys digital and custom design…
Japan will provide Micron with $320 million subsidy
Japan will provide Micron with $320 million subsidy
Business news |
Japan is going to subsidize Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) with up to 46.6 billion yen (about US$320 million) to make memory chips in Horishima, according to reports. The reports…
Yangtze Memory CEO reportedly leaving post
Yangtze Memory CEO reportedly leaving post
News |
Chinese flash memory maker Yangtze Memory Technology Corp. (YMTC) will replace its CEO Simon Yang, according to a Digitimes report, referencing unnamed sources. Yang is living for “personal reasons” the…
Automotive markets gaining importance for the semiconductor industry
Automotive markets gaining importance for the semiconductor industry
Market news |
Market share of automotive ICs to rise to 10% by 2026.
AI ‘unicorn’ Graphcore set to cut jobs
AI ‘unicorn’ Graphcore set to cut jobs
Business news |
Artificial intelligence (AI) chip startup Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, England) is proposing to axe jobs at multiple sites due to the “macroeconomic” situation. A spokesperson from Graphcore told eeNews Europe that…
Former Dialog Semi execs head to M&A advisor
Former Dialog Semi execs head to M&A advisor
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Mark Tyndall and Alex McCann, both former senior vice presidents at Dialog Semiconductor plc, have joined finance and corporate strategy advisor Alexa Capital to provide a semiconductor-focused team. Their former…
Vietnam launches fabless chip company
Vietnam launches fabless chip company
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Leading Vietnamese IT company, FPT Software (Hanoi, Vietnam), has launched a fabless semiconductor susbsidiary, FPT Semiconductor. FPT Semi released its first chips – designed in Vietnam and manufactured in South…
UK to force Nexperia to sell Newport wafer fab stake says report
UK to force Nexperia to sell Newport wafer fab stake says report
Business news |
The UK government is planning to tell Nexperia to substantially reduce its ownership of the former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF), according to a Financial Times report referencing unnamed sources. Earlier…
Another China ‘Big Fund’ executive is detained
Another China ‘Big Fund’ executive is detained
Business news |
Ren Kai, a vice president of Sino IC Capital Ltd., is the latest ‘Big Fund’ executive to come under investigation in an anti-corruption crackdown in China, according to Caixin Global.
UK set to tell Nexperia to sell wafer fab stake – report
UK set to tell Nexperia to sell wafer fab stake – report
Business news |
The UK government is planning to tell Nexperia NV to reduce substantially its ownership of the former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF), according to a Financial Times report referencing unnamed sources.
Why ’emerging’ memories have not succeeded – yet
Why ’emerging’ memories have not succeeded – yet
Feature articles |
On July 28, seven years to the day since the initial launch of its 3D XPoint memory technology, Intel revealed that the company would “wind down” its Optane memory business.
Missing chips cost European auto industry €100 billion
Missing chips cost European auto industry €100 billion
Market news |
The automotive industry is the "number one casualty" of the global semiconductor crisis, says a study by Allianz Research. European companies are hit the hardest. But there might be a…
Chip market growth in 2023 will be ‘deeply negative’ says analyst
Chip market growth in 2023 will be ‘deeply negative’ says analyst
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Analyst Malcolm Penn has reduced his view of the global chip market to 4 percent growth in 2022 followed by a 22 percent contraction in 2023. Penn, the CEO and…
MRAM in SRAM format comes in 1Gbit, 4Gbit capacities
MRAM in SRAM format comes in 1Gbit, 4Gbit capacities
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MRAM vendor Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) is using foundry UMC to make what it calls persistent-SRAM components on 22nm process technology. The persistent-SRAM is based on Avalanche Technology’s Spin…
SiGe process targets 6G, Wi-Fi, V2V and radar
SiGe process targets 6G, Wi-Fi, V2V and radar
Technology News |
X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE (Tessenderlo, Belgium) has announced a licensing agreement to use a silicon-germanium manufacturing process developed by the Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP). The manufacturing process…
Memory market in ‘free fall’ lifts TSMC to top spot
Memory market in ‘free fall’ lifts TSMC to top spot
Market news |
A collapse of the market for memory chips has led semiconductor analyst IC Insights has downgraded its worldwide IC growth forecast for 2022 to 7 percent from 11 percent. IC…
Modified microwave oven ‘cooks up’ next-gen semiconductors
Modified microwave oven ‘cooks up’ next-gen semiconductors
Technology News |
Researchers at Cornell University have modified a household microwave oven to demonstrate how microwave annealing - as an alternative to conventional rapid thermal annealing - could overcome a major fabrication…
Chip growth slows as Chinese market contracts
Chip growth slows as Chinese market contracts
Market news |
The annual growth of the global chip market dropped to 7.3 percent in July, down from 13.3 percent in June and 18.0 percent in May, according to the Semiconductor Industry…
Chip market growth declines as data corrections reflect Asian fall
Chip market growth declines as data corrections reflect Asian fall
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The annual growth of the global chip market dropped to 7.3 percent in July, down from 13.3 percent in June and 18.0 percent in May, according to the Semiconductor Industry…


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