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Atomera’s dopant engineering reaches 50% of top chip makers
Atomera’s dopant engineering reaches 50% of top chip makers
Interviews |
Atomera Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), a company founded by Robert Mears, the pioneer of the erbium-doped fibre amplifier, is making…
Serdes, retimer vendor Kandou raises US$72 million
Serdes, retimer vendor Kandou raises US$72 million
Business news |
Kandou Bus SA (Lausanne, Switzerland) has raised US$72.3 million in a round of venture capital financing. The fabless company founded…
European chip market cools as Americas returns to growth
European chip market cools as Americas returns to growth
Market news |
The European chip market’s averaged annual growth declined in August but the Americas region returned to annual growth for the…
Tenstorrent chooses Samsung to make next AI chiplets
Tenstorrent chooses Samsung to make next AI chiplets
Technology News |
AI processor pioneer Tenstorrent Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has announced it will use Samsung Foundry to bring its next generation AI…

Micron breaks ground on US$2.75 billion Indian chip packaging fab
Micron breaks ground on US$2.75 billion Indian chip packaging fab
Business news |
Memory chip company Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has broken ground on a chip assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, India, that is set to cost US2.75 billion, according…
Indian chip maker to expand IC packaging capacity
Indian chip maker to expand IC packaging capacity
Business news |
Indian chip and manufacturing services company Continental Device India Pvt. Ltd. (New Delhi, India) is expanding its chip packaging business and could re-enter wafer fabrication, according to reports. CDIL claims…
Intel tips glass substrate for chiplet packaging
Intel tips glass substrate for chiplet packaging
Technology News |
Intel has started producing test examples of glass substrates for chiplet packaging. For its glass substrates Intel uses the same 510mm by 515mm panel size that it already uses for…
Korea’s SKC moves in on US chiplet infrastructure
Korea’s SKC moves in on US chiplet infrastructure
Business news |
SKC Co., a South Korean materials company, is acquiring a 12 percent stake in Chipletz Inc. (Austin, Texas), a fabless substrate startup, according to the Yonhap news agency. SKC is…
Taiwan foundries’ sales declines continue
Taiwan foundries’ sales declines continue
News |
Leading foundries TSMC and UMC both provided sales figures for August that were down considerably on the same month in 2022, continuing a trend that has lasted through most of…
Arm updates IPO filing with reduced valuation
Arm updates IPO filing with reduced valuation
News |
Processor intellectual property licensor Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has said it expects to sell 95.5 million shares in the company at a target price of between US$47 and US$51 per…
Intel, Tower make New Mexico foundry deal
Intel, Tower make New Mexico foundry deal
News |
Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and specialist foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) have announced a deal whereby Intel will provide 300mm wafer manufacturing capacity to Tower out of its…
‘Pitch-splitting’ chip startup Alix Labs raises more money
‘Pitch-splitting’ chip startup Alix Labs raises more money
Business news |
Atomic etch startup Alix Labs AB (Lund, Sweden) has raised SEK 40 million (about US$3.6 million) to further develop its ‘pitch-splitting’ chip manufacturing technology. The announcement comes two years after…
CEO interview: with Kurt Busch of ‘always-on’ startup Syntiant
CEO interview: with Kurt Busch of ‘always-on’ startup Syntiant
Interviews |
Syntiant Corp. (Irvine, Calif.), founded in 2017, is one of the more successful ‘edge’ AI processor companies having shipped tens of millions of neural processors across applications in consumer and…
First 240 GHz single-chip silicon radar transceiver
First 240 GHz single-chip silicon radar transceiver
New Products |
Fully integrated single-chip radar transceiver offers unprecedented sensing resolution and system performance.
Blumind startup pursues analog AI at the edge
Blumind startup pursues analog AI at the edge
Technology News |
Blumind Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a startup company that has developed an analog architecture for neural network inferencing at the edge. The use of analog computation and storage for…
AI chip market to be worth $67 billion in 2024
AI chip market to be worth $67 billion in 2024
Market news |
The market for chips designed to execute artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is increasing at an annual rate of more than 20 percent, according to Gartner. The market analyst reckons the…
Magnets in the brain could control mood, depression
Magnets in the brain could control mood, depression
Technology News |
A European research project is planning to use nanoscale magnets to treat neurological disorders such as depression. Researchers from the University of Glasgow are part of the Wireless Deep Brain…
Inventory up, fab utilization to fall in 3Q23
Inventory up, fab utilization to fall in 3Q23
Market news |
Total IC inventory in the global chip sector is expected to climb and IC manufacturing capacity utilization is expected to fall in 3Q23, according to industry body SEMI. SEMI has…
Broadcom to invest in Spanish chip program
Broadcom to invest in Spanish chip program
News |
Broadcom has decided to invest in Spain’s semiconductor industry, according to the company’s president Charlie Kawwas. Kawwas made the announcement via a tweet message that showed Broadcom CEO Hock Tan…
India will pay for 70% of Micron’s $2.75 billion packaging plant
India will pay for 70% of Micron’s $2.75 billion packaging plant
Business news |
Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has said it will receive a subsidy worth 70 percent of the US$2.75 billion cost of building and equiping a chip packaging…
Stellantis, Foxconn form SiliconAuto JV to provide automotive chips
Stellantis, Foxconn form SiliconAuto JV to provide automotive chips
Business news |
Stellantis and Foxconn, have formed a 50:50 joint venture called SiliconAuto to supply the automotive industry with chips, starting in 2026. Stellantis NV (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is the automotive conglomerate…
Top ten foundries saw 1Q23 revenue drop, rankings change
Top ten foundries saw 1Q23 revenue drop, rankings change
Market news |
The top ten foundries in the world – responsible for about 98 percent of sales – saw revenue decline by 18.6 percent compared with 4Q22, according to TrendForce. The market…
TSMC’s sales decline is modest in May
TSMC’s sales decline is modest in May
Market news |
May sales at foundry TSMC were down year-on-year by 4.9 percent while for local rival United Microelectronics Corp. they were down 23.1 percent. TSMC’s small annual fall is an improvement…
WSTS lowers global chip market forecast for 2023
WSTS lowers global chip market forecast for 2023
Feature articles |
The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization has dropped its forecast for the chip market in 2023 and expects it to contract by 10.3 percent. The global semiconductor market is predicted…
India calls for fresh bids for wafer fab subsidies
India calls for fresh bids for wafer fab subsidies
News |
India has re-opened the application window for its US$10 billion support fund intended to provide subsidies for wafer fab building and pushed back the three entities that have applied so…
GloFo, ST finalize terms for €7.5 billion wafer fab at Crolles
GloFo, ST finalize terms for €7.5 billion wafer fab at Crolles
Business news |
Chip companies GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics have said they have agreed the deal to create a jointly-operated 300mm wafer fab in Crolles France with a budget of €7.5 billion (about US$8…
AI boom could drive 25% of Broadcom chip sales in 2024
AI boom could drive 25% of Broadcom chip sales in 2024
News |
Artificial intelligence (AI) could be responsible for more than 25 percent of chip sales at Broadcom Inc. in its fiscal 2024 year, according to CEO Hock Tan. Tan was speaking…
Blue Cheetah releases 16Gbps chiplet IP
Blue Cheetah releases 16Gbps chiplet IP
New Products |
Blue Cheetah Analog Design Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) has announced it has made its 2Gbps to 16Gbps BlueLynx die-to-die interconnect IP in a 12nm test chip. The successful working of the…


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