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Tuesday 20 September 2022
Incomplete factory engineering supply chain could slow new fab construction in Europe, US
Incomplete factory engineering industry supply chains, as well as insufficient manpower, could slow the construction of new wafer fabs in Europe and the US, according to industry...
Thursday 15 September 2022
Taiwan reactivates overseas tech talent recruitment campaign
As part of its efforts to ease serious domestic talent shortage, the government in Taiwan has recently reactivated its overseas recruitment campaign, which was earlier interrupted...
Thursday 25 August 2022
Cadence, UMC team up for 22nm analog and mixed-signal IC design flow certification
Cadence Design Systems' analog and mixed-signal (AMS) IC design flow has been certified for United Microelectronics' (UMC) 22ULP/ULL process technologies, according to the companies...
Tuesday 23 August 2022
GF to raise prices for some foundry processes in 2023
GlobalFoundries (GF) plans to raise prices for some of its manufacturing processes by up to 8% in 2023, according to sources at IC design houses.
Wednesday 17 August 2022
Foundries see IC design houses scale back orders for 4Q22
Foundries particularly second- and third-tier players continue to see their fabless clients scale back orders that will drag down further their fab capacity utilization in the fourth...
Thursday 11 August 2022
GlobalFoundries announces record 2Q22 results
GlobalFoundries (GF) has reported record quarterly revenue of US$1.99 billion for second-quarter 2022, up 23% from a year ago, with gross margin reaching a record high of 27%, almost...
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Qualcomm to double chip purchase through long-term agreement with GF
At the CEO Summit hosted by GlobalFoundries (GF), Ford Motor Company and Applied Materials in Washington DC, Qualcomm Technologies announced the extension of their existing strategic...
Thursday 4 August 2022
GlobalFoundries joins Google's open-source silicon initiative
Google announced in a blog on August 3 that GlobalFoundries (GF) is participating in its open-source silicon initiative as a new partner, calling the new partnership a milestone in...
Monday 1 August 2022
Chips Act: With subsidies come the real challenges for chipmakers
With the US Congress passing the Chips and Science Act of 2022 on July 28, awaiting the US president Joe Biden to sign it into law, the global chips industry is far from having a...
Monday 25 July 2022
Foundries reportedly adjusting capacity expansion plans in 2H22
Many foundry houses and IDMs are mulling scaling back or postponing their capacity expansions amid sharply weakening chip demand for consumer applications, except for TSMC, which...
Monday 18 July 2022
China revving up homegrown GPU development
GPU chips, with their powerful parallel computing capability and excellent programmability, are becoming an area of intense competition among semiconductor players, and many fabless...
Tuesday 12 July 2022
ST, GF team up for 300mm wafer fab in France
STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries have signed a MoU to build a 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in France, according to the chipmakers.
Wednesday 6 July 2022
SMIC, Intel face different constraints in expanding global foundry market shares
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) and Intel are facing different constraints in expanding their presence in the global foundry market while they are on track to...
Monday 4 July 2022
TSMC, GlobalWafers play vital role in driving US semiconductor supply
Taiwan's top foundry TSMC and leading silicon wafer vendor GlobalWafers are playing crucial roles in helping the US rebooting its semiconductor supply, with the former constructing...
Monday 27 June 2022
GF, SMIC may bear the brunt of consumer chips demand downturn
With declining chip demand for consumer devices and new capacities gradually coming online, foundry houses could hardly sustain full utilization of their fab capacities, but it is...