Intel is understood to be in active talks with Google and Amazon to provide advanced chip packaging services for their custom AI ASICs.
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Bipartisan group of U.S. senators propose to impose blanket ban on export of advanced DUV lithography and etching tools to Chinese companies known to have worked with China’s military, such as CXMT, Huawei, SMIC, and YMTC….
While browsing our website a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon “How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End” by Senior Editor Samuel K. Moore. His analysis focuses on the current DRAM shortage caused by AI hyperscalers’ ravenous appetite for memory, a…
New rumor indicates that TSMC is looking forward to expand its presence in the U.S. to 12 fabs and four packaging facilities.
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In a mutually beneficial deal, Intel repurchases 49% of Fab 34 from Apollo for $14.2 billion, reducing pressure on its margins, but paying a hefty $3 billion premium to the financial company.
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Some industry analysts expect it will take Qatar around five years to regain lost capacity.
One of the three landmark cases involving the theft of trade secrets from TSMC has run through investigative and court proceedings, and a verdict is scheduled for April 27.
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Elon Musk’s TeraFab has been announced, and the first employees are now being hired. But can this venture scale to all of its terawatt glory? Or will it just help Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI land additional chips they cannot ge…
Senior Chinese semiconductor executives said AI-driven demand is creating bottlenecks across equipment, passive components, and workforce capacity.
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French industrial gas supplier Air Liquide opened a new factory near the port of Taichung, Taiwan, on Wednesday, as the semiconductor industry faces a worsening helium shortage.
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