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Intel drops to rank third amongst chip firms in 1Q24
Intel drops to rank third amongst chip firms in 1Q24
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Intel Corp. – for decades the leading chip maker and chip vendor – has been ranked third by revenue in…
Samsung’s Texas fab could start on 2nm in 2026, says report
Samsung’s Texas fab could start on 2nm in 2026, says report
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Samsung is taking steps to set the beginning of production at its wafer fab in Taylor, Texas, in 2026 rather…
BAe Systems, Globalfoundries renew US defense partnership
BAe Systems, Globalfoundries renew US defense partnership
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BAe Systems plc and Globalfoundries Inc. have announced a renewed strategic agreement on the supply chips for US national security…
Silicon Box favors Novara for Italian chiplet fab site
Silicon Box favors Novara for Italian chiplet fab site
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Singapore startup Silicon Box Pte. Ltd. is set to select Novara in the Piedmont region of Italy as the location…

Chip manufacturing capacity expansion is set to continue
Chip manufacturing capacity expansion is set to continue
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Chip manufacturing capacity is expected to increase by 6 percent in 2024 and 7 percent in 2025 to reach 33.7 million wafers per month (8-inch equivalent), according to industry body…
Black Semi raises €250 million for graphene pilot wafer fab
Black Semi raises €250 million for graphene pilot wafer fab
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Black Semiconductor GmbH (Aachen, Germany), a 2020 startup that develops graphene-based photonic interfaces, has secured €254.4 million to fund the launch of its technology. The German federal government and the…
UK government approves sale of 49% stake in Sondrel
UK government approves sale of 49% stake in Sondrel
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UK chip design firm Sondrel Holdings plc has received government approval for ROX Equity Partners Ltd. to take a 49.2 percent stake in the company. ROX, a UK-based private…
TSMC monthly sales dipped in May
TSMC monthly sales dipped in May
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May revenue at foundry TSMC declined 2.7 percent sequentially but was up 30.1 percent compared with May 2023. May revenue at foundry TSMC declined 2.7 percent sequentially but was up…
Saudi Arabia plans US$266 million fund to attract chip design firms
Saudi Arabia plans US$266 million fund to attract chip design firms
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Saudi Arabia has announced a National Semiconductor Hub with plans to offer a support fund worth 1 billion riyals (about US$267 million) to attract fabless chip companies to the kingdom.
America drives global chip market to “go again” in April
America drives global chip market to “go again” in April
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Global chip market growth ticked up in April led by exceptional growth reported for the Americas region, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The global chip market assessed as a…
Researchers demonstrate the first chip-based 3D printer
Researchers demonstrate the first chip-based 3D printer
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Smaller than a coin, this optical device could enable rapid prototyping on the go From the MIT website: Imagine a portable 3D printer you could hold in the palm of…
WSTS predicts 2024 chip market will grow 16%
WSTS predicts 2024 chip market will grow 16%
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The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization has raised its forecast for the global chip market in 2024 putting it at odds with at least one other analyst. In its Spring…
Aixtron selects Turin for chip-making equipment factory
Aixtron selects Turin for chip-making equipment factory
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Deposition equipment supplier Aixtron SE (Herzogenrath, Germany) has bought a site near Turin, Italy, where it plans to build an equipment production factory. The company supplies metalo-organic chemical vapor deposition…
Pragmatic’s losses climb as sales creep forward
Pragmatic’s losses climb as sales creep forward
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Flexible IC pioneer Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has reported an operating loss of £36.75 million on sales revenue of £1.71 million. The loss increased by 62.2 percent year-on-year, from…
China doubles down on Big Fund with US$47.5 billion third phase
China doubles down on Big Fund with US$47.5 billion third phase
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China has launched its third and largest semiconductor investment fund with 344 billion yuan (about US$47.5 billion), according to reports. The move shows China doubling down on its aspiration to…
CHIPS Act is raising US share of global production, says report
CHIPS Act is raising US share of global production, says report
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US wafer fab manufacturing capacity is projected to triple between 2022 and 2032, the largest percentage rise in the world, according to a report prepared by Boston Consulting Group. BCG…
TSMC’s April sales climb 60 percent year-on-year
TSMC’s April sales climb 60 percent year-on-year
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April revenue at foundry TSMC climbed 59.6 percent on the strength of its position in leading-edge manufacturing processes compared with April 2023. This increase came despite the company itself reducing…
Analyst drops chip market forecast after 1Q24 “train wreck”
Analyst drops chip market forecast after 1Q24 “train wreck”
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Malcolm Penn, founder and chief analyst with Future Horizons, has lowered his forecast for global chip market growth in 2024 to 4.9 percent from his previous estimate of 16 percent.
Global chip market growth halted in 1Q24
Global chip market growth halted in 1Q24
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Global chip market growth subsided in March, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association as economic headwinds started to win out over any AI boost to chip pricing. The three-month moving…
Guerrilla buys Gallium Semiconductor’s GaN product lines
Guerrilla buys Gallium Semiconductor’s GaN product lines
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Guerrilla RF Inc. (Greensboro, North Carolina) has acquired the entire portfolio of GaN power amplifiers and front-end modules from Singaporean RF GaN chip vendor Gallium Semiconductor. It was announced in…
First universal, programmable and multifunctional photonic chip
First universal, programmable and multifunctional photonic chip
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A team from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the company iPRONICS have designed and manufactured a revolutionary chip for the telecommunications sector The…
Huawei builds R&D base for home-grown lithography
Huawei builds R&D base for home-grown lithography
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Huawei is completing a US$1.66 billion R&D facility in Shanghai where one of the functions will be to develop lithography technologies, according to Nikkei Asia. The R&D facility is part…
Moffett AI raises more funds for sparse computing
Moffett AI raises more funds for sparse computing
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Moxin Artificial Intelligence Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., otherwise known as Moffett AI or Ink Core, has announced it has closed two rounds of financing each worth hundreds of million yuan.
Global chip market growth crept higher in February
Global chip market growth crept higher in February
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There were signs of potential fatigue in global chip market growth in numbers just published by the SIA for February. However, annual growth could continue to increase through the year…
Red Semiconductor announces VISC extension to RISC-V
Red Semiconductor announces VISC extension to RISC-V
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Startup chip company Red Semiconductor Ltd. (Oxford, England) has announced VISC, its RISC-V based instruction set architecture with extensions for edge AI and cryptography. VISC stands for Versatile Intrinsic Structured…
Vertical GaN startup Odyssey closing with asset sale
Vertical GaN startup Odyssey closing with asset sale
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Vertical GaN pioneer Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies has agreed to sell its assets for US$9.52 million and then be wound up. Odyssey operates a 10,000 square foot semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility…
Vertical GaN startup Odyssey closing with asset sale
Vertical GaN startup Odyssey closing with asset sale
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Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies Inc. (Ithaca, New York), a startup founded in 2019 to commercialize vertical conduction GaN devices, has agreed to sell its assets for US$9.52 million and then be…
Selector-only memory gains advocates, including SK Hynix
Selector-only memory gains advocates, including SK Hynix
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A novel type of solid-state memory, the selector-only memory (SOM) or self-selecting memory (SSM), could be about to rise from the ashes of Intel’s failed 3D XPoint non-volatile memory. IMEC,…


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