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IQE loses a third of its value on trading update
IQE loses a third of its value on trading update
Business news |
The price of shares in IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of compound semiconductor wafers, fell by a third…
Netherlands adds DUV lithography equipment to export controls
Netherlands adds DUV lithography equipment to export controls
News |
As expected the Netherlands has fallen in line with the US by adding deep ultra violet lithography equipment to export…
Tower partners for optical fiber die attach
Tower partners for optical fiber die attach
Partners |
Speciality foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) is collaborating with Teramount Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel) on connecting optical fibers to…
Memory dominates leading-edge chip manufacture
Memory dominates leading-edge chip manufacture
Market news |
Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix accounted for 76 percent of leading-edge wafer capacity at the end of 2022, according to…

IMEC’s ‘virtual fab’ models climate impact of chipmaking processes
IMEC’s ‘virtual fab’ models climate impact of chipmaking processes
Technology News |
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
News |
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.
US$250 million ‘negative impact’ at Applied linked to cyberattack
US$250 million ‘negative impact’ at Applied linked to cyberattack
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A ransomware attack at process control equipment provider MKS Instruments has been linked to an estimated $250 million “negative impact” given in guidance at Applied Materials. MKS Instruments Inc. (Andover,…
Globalfoundries, Amkor partner for European OSAT
Globalfoundries, Amkor partner for European OSAT
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US packaging firm Amkor Technologies Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.) has formed a European partnership with GlobalFoundries Inc. Under the arrangement foundry chipmaker Globalfoundries will transfer bump and sort lines for 300mm…
GloFo Chengdu fab site could pass to Tsingua Unigroup
GloFo Chengdu fab site could pass to Tsingua Unigroup
Business news |
Struggling Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup could be about to take on Globalfoundries’ wafer fab site in Chengdu, China, according to Digitimes. Digitimes reports that Chengdu has reportedly gone to…
Wafer shipments hit all-time high in 2022
Wafer shipments hit all-time high in 2022
Market news |
Worldwide silicon wafer shipments in 2022 increased 3.9 percent on an annual basis to 14,713 million square inches (MSI), according to industry body SEMI. The wafer revenue rose 9.5 percent…
Gallium Semi opens Philippines manufacturing facility
Gallium Semi opens Philippines manufacturing facility
Business news |
Startup RF power transistor company Gallium Semiconductor Singapore Pte. Ltd., has opened its manufacturing facility in Laguna, Philippines. The inauguration was held on February 3, 2023 and was led by…
IMEC semiconductor roadmap shows end of metal-pitch scaling
IMEC semiconductor roadmap shows end of metal-pitch scaling
News |
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
Business news |
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
Business news |
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…
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
Business news |
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…
Intel goes slow, casts doubt on Italian chiplet fab
Intel goes slow, casts doubt on Italian chiplet fab
Business news |
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…
Foundry market set to fall 4% in 2023
Foundry market set to fall 4% in 2023
Market news |
The market for foundry semiconductors will fall by around 4 percent in 2023, according to TrendForce. This would be a more severe annual decline than that recorded in 2019, the…
Analog Devices spending $1 billion on fab upgrade
Analog Devices spending $1 billion on fab upgrade
Business news |
Chip company Analog Devices Inc. is spending $1 billion to double manufacturing capacity at its wafer fab in Beaverton, Oregon, according to a local report. The spending amount is revealed…
TSMC mulls second Japanese wafer fab
TSMC mulls second Japanese wafer fab
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TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, is considering building a second wafer fab in Japan, according to chairman C.C. Wei. TSMC is already building a specialty fab in partnership with Sony…
Samsung 3nm process yield is ‘perfect’
Samsung 3nm process yield is ‘perfect’
Business news |
Samsung has achieved a sharp increase in production yield on its 3nm manufacturing process, according to the Korea Economic Daily, citing to an unnamed source. Samsung’s gate-all-around (GAA) 3nm process,…
Taiwan foundry in talks over Indian wafer fab
Taiwan foundry in talks over Indian wafer fab
Business news |
Foundry Power Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (Hsinchu, Taiwan), is in talks with the Indian government about helping build a wafer fab there, according to a Digitimes report. The report says the…
Garage chipmaker forms startup with processor veteran
Garage chipmaker forms startup with processor veteran
Feature articles |
Sam Zeloof, an undergraduate at Carnegie-Mellon who has made ICs in a garage, has formed a startup called Atomic Semi Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.). Zeloof has showed on youtube…
TSMC sales dip in December
TSMC sales dip in December
Business news |
Foundry TSMC’s December sales fell 13.5 percent sequentially to NT$192.56 billion (about US$6.3 billion) but were still up 23.9 percent compared with a year before. The sales growth figure was…
China-owned Okmetic breaks ground on 200mm wafer fab
China-owned Okmetic breaks ground on 200mm wafer fab
Business news |
China-owned silicon wafer manufacturer Okmetic Oy has broken ground at Vantaa, Finland, on a €400 million fabrication facility. The plan to double production capacity with a fab for 200mm-diameter wafers…
Canon fields lithography stepper for 3D packaging
Canon fields lithography stepper for 3D packaging
Technology News |
Canon Inc. has launched an i-line lithography stepper for use in 3D advanced packaging such as those used with chiplets mounted on an interposer. The FPA-5520iV LF2, based on 365nm…
South Korea tables 35% tax break for chip capex
South Korea tables 35% tax break for chip capex
Business news |
South Korea’s government is planning to raise tax breaks up to 35 percent for chip companies’ capital expenditure in a chip spending race with US and Taiwan. President Yoon Suk…
TSMC catches Samsung, starts 3nm chip production
TSMC catches Samsung, starts 3nm chip production
Technology News |
Foundry TSMC has started production of its N3 generation chips – nominally 3nm – in Tainan, southwestern Taiwan. It has started producing the leading-edge chips six-months behind rival Samsung Electronics.


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