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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…
Vishay invests €300m in fab expansion
Vishay invests €300m in fab expansion
Business news |
US semiconductor manufacturer Vishay wants to expand its production in Itzehoe (Germany) for about €300 million.
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,…
SkyWater foundry plans $1.8 billion Indiana wafer fab
SkyWater foundry plans $1.8 billion Indiana wafer fab
Business news |
Specialty foundry SkyWater Technology Inc. (Bloomington, Minnesota) is plannng to build a US$1.8 billion wafer fab in partnership with State…

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…
Chipmakers slow spending plans
Chipmakers slow spending plans
Business news |
Memory chip maker SK Hynix Inc. has suspended a wafer fab expansion plan amid uncertainty over demand. TSMC has also taken $4 billion off its capital expenditure budget for 2022.
Iluvatar raises funds for more AI-GPUs
Iluvatar raises funds for more AI-GPUs
Business news |
GPU and high-performance processor company Iluvatar, registered as Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor Co. Ltd., has raised Series C+ and C++ rounds of financing totaling over 1 billion yuan (about US$150…
Arm London IPO talks paused by SoftBank
Arm London IPO talks paused by SoftBank
Business news |
SoftBank Group has put plans for a London initial public offering of shares in Arm Ltd. on hold because of the change of UK government turmoil, according to the Financial…
Agile Analog boosts engineer recruitment drive
Agile Analog boosts engineer recruitment drive
Business news |
Agile Analog Ltd., licensor of analog intellectual property cores, is moving offices to accommodate a major recruitment drive in Cambridge, England. The drive comes just weeks after the company announced…
Chipmaking equipment spending spree to slow in 2023
Chipmaking equipment spending spree to slow in 2023
Market news |
Global sales of total semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are forecast to reach $120.8 billion in 2023 up 2.8 percent from $117.5 billion in 2022, according to SEMI.
Nordic taps GF, Silterra as capacity limits growth
Nordic taps GF, Silterra as capacity limits growth
Business news |
Nordic Semiconductor in Norway is aiming for US$1 billion revenue in 2023 with a view to further doubling revenue by 2026. However, the wafer allocation at foundry TSMC is limiting…
Nordic asks GloFo, Silterra to help it reach billion-dollar revenue
Nordic asks GloFo, Silterra to help it reach billion-dollar revenue
Business news |
Wireless chip company Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway) has said it is on course to achieve US$1 billion revenue in 2023 with a view to further doubling revenue by 2026.
Mobileye IPO on hold due market conditions, say reports
Mobileye IPO on hold due market conditions, say reports
Business news |
An initial public offering of shares in Intel subsidiary Mobileye is being postponed until markets stabilize, according to reports citing sources at the autonomous driving chip firm. According to a…
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
Business news |
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
Business news |
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
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 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…
US seeks to expand ban on ASML’s China sales
US seeks to expand ban on ASML’s China sales
Business news |
The US government is applying pressure on the Netherlands to stop ASML Holding NV from selling deep-ultraviolet lithography equipment to China, according to a Bloomberg report. ASML stopped supplying extreme…
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…
Wearable chemical sensor is made of gold
Wearable chemical sensor is made of gold
Technology News |
Researchers have created a sensor made of a matrix of gold microfibers that can be used to measure biological signals on the skin using Raman spectroscopy. Because the biosensor is…
Chip market falls in 1Q22
Chip market falls in 1Q22
Market news |
The semiconductor market declined sequentially in 1Q22 but not by as much as normal seasonality would have dictated, according to market analysis firm Omdia. The market declined sequentially by 0.03…
Chinese DPU chip firm gains funds, unicorn status
Chinese DPU chip firm gains funds, unicorn status
Business news |
Data processing unit (DPU) chip company Jaguar Microsystems (Shanghai, China), founded in 2020 by former Broadcom executive Sunny Siu, has raised a round of financing worth hundreds of millions of…


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