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Friday 27 September 2024
US and India launch national security fab for compound semiconductors amid export control challenges
The US and India recently announced the establishment of a national security fab dedicated to producing chips using compound semiconductors, marking a significant milestone in India's...
Friday 27 September 2024
Memory spot prices fall on slow demand recovery
The recovery in downstream consumer markets remains sluggish, leading to a further decline in spot market prices for memory chips. In response, industry leader Kingston Technology...
Friday 27 September 2024
Meta prototype AR glasses features chip co-developed with MediaTek
Meta has revealed a prototype of its Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses, featuring a customized chip co-developed with MediaTek, according to industry sources.
Thursday 26 September 2024
AMD, Broadcom eye lucrative potential in custom chips amid early market hurdles
AMD CEO Lisa Su predicts that while GPUs currently dominate AI tasks due to their parallel processing efficiency, the future will see a broader range of chip architectures emerge...
Thursday 26 September 2024
SK Hynix begins volume production of 12-layer HBM3E
K Hynix has commenced mass production of the world's first 12-layer HBM3E product, boasting a 36GB capacity, the highest of any current HBM available, according to the memory chip...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
TSMC adopts SMC's chillers for 2nm trial production
Japan-based SMC has announced that it has shipped chillers to TSMC for the trial production of 2nm chips. SMC is launching chiller products specifically for advanced semiconductor...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
JCET expands HBM packaging and testing as China accelerates domestic production
The Biden administration is considering imposing restrictions on the import of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and related equipment into China, fueling growing demand for domestic substitutes...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
China leverages compute-in-memory technology to overtake HBM in AI chip development
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has created an unprecedented demand for computational power. As the chip industry faces physical limitations in the post-Moore's...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Taiwan IC design houses urged to accelerate migration to advanced nodes
Taiwan's government is urging local IC design houses to speed up their migration to advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes to avoid cut-throat pricing competition from China...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
AMD's next-gen AI GPU to intensify competition in 4Q24
AMD will launch a new generation of MI325X chips utilizing HBM3E in October to enhance its standing in the AI GPU market, aiming to secure orders from AI server clients seeking to...
Tuesday 24 September 2024
TSMC SoIC fab capacity to reportedly boost through to 2026
The AI surge requires TSMC to swiftly expand its production capacity for chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging. Simultaneously, the foundry's production capacity for 3D-stacked...
Monday 23 September 2024
Weekly news roundup: Qualcomm and MediaTek competition in 3nm SoC; progress of China's 28nm process
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of September 16 – September 20.
Friday 20 September 2024
China's homegrown DUV equipment struggles with multiple exposures, hindering chip process advancements
China's latest domestically produced DUV exposure machine cannot perform the critical multiple exposures needed for advanced chip production, making it incapable of achieving finer...
Friday 20 September 2024
Saudi Arabia to purchase Nvidia's high-end chips in 2025
Originally one of the regulated export destinations for US chips, Saudi Arabia aims to receive clearance from the US government in 2025 and obtain US-manufactured high-quality chip...
Friday 20 September 2024
Retimer vs. redriver: a battle in USB4 transmission technologies
USB4 adoption is rapidly gaining traction in the consumer electronics market, with PCs featuring AI functionality now coming equipped with multiple USB4 ports. For Taiwanese firms...
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