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Thursday 9 March 2023
China auto price war sees $13,000 cash back incentives on offer
A price war started by Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. has spread beyond electric cars to gasoline-fueled vehicles as the likes of Peugeot SA's Citroen, Mercedes-Benz Group AG and General...
Thursday 9 March 2023
CATL takes over Sichuan mining company to hold more lithium resources
World-leading battery maker CATL recently took over Sinuowei Mining, a China-based lithium mining company under restructuring. The buyout is expected to help CATL gain influence in...
Thursday 9 March 2023
Xiaomi heads new fund to enhance AI, auto chips development
China smartphone vendor Xiaomi has set up a CNY10 billion (US$1.43 billion) fund with other partners to invest in companies dedicated to developing chip technologies related to AI,...
Thursday 9 March 2023
Edge AI chipmaker Hailo intros new processors for smart cameras
Hailo, which specializes in edge artificial intelligence (AI) processors, has announced its new Hailo-15 family of high-performance vision processors designed for integration directly...
Thursday 9 March 2023
Mexico sees industrial revival as Tesla and other big companies settle in
After Tesla officially announced that it will build a Gigafactory in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, the Mexican government said it has also suggested Tesla build a battery plant in Mexico, according...
Thursday 9 March 2023
Chinese AI chip vendors eyeing return to profits on ChatGPT wave
With Baidu, Alibaba and other Chinese Internet companies successively announcing their entry into the field of AIGC (AI-generated content), substantial business growth opportunities...
Thursday 9 March 2023
OSATs see clear automotive MCU orders from IDMs till end-2023
Taiwan's OSATs including ASE Technology, TeraPower Technology under Powertech Technology (PTI), and Ardentec have seen clear order visibility for automotive MCUs from IDMs till the...
Thursday 9 March 2023
Japan and Taiwan passive component suppliers turn focus to automotive
Japan- and Taiwan-based suppliers of MLCC and other passive components are devoting more resources to automotive applications, according to industry sources.
Thursday 9 March 2023
AI boom to boost demand for high-end memory chips
AI advancements will increase demand for high-end memory chips by enabling a wide range of applications, industry sources believe.
Thursday 9 March 2023
Tesla slashing SiC use in EVs undermining Chinese makers' ambition
Tesla's decision to significantly reduce SiC components in EVs has already shaken the Chinese capital market's confidence in the development of the country's SiC semiconductor industry,...
Thursday 9 March 2023
TSMC keeps fab utilization rate at 70% or higher
TSMC's fab utilization in the first quarter of 2023 is being dragged down by a rapid slowdown in 7nm and 6nm chip orders, but the foundry has managed to keep its overall fab utilization...
Wednesday 8 March 2023
SkyWater and Weebit announced the inclusion of ReRAM IP in 130nm process for applications in automotive, defense and beyond
Israel-based Weebit Nano and US-based SkyWater Technology have announced the availability of Weebit's resistive RAM (ReRAM) IP in SkyWater's 130nm CMOS (S130) process. SkyWater customers...
Wednesday 8 March 2023
EV impact: ADAS sensors
LiDAR, a light sensing technology that creates a 3D map of a car's surroundings, is used in partial automation as a short-term objective, and is set to help achieve fully autonomous...
Wednesday 8 March 2023
Xiaomi CEO says EV production expected to start in 1H2024
Xiaomi plans to begin mass-producing its EVs in the first half of next year, according to its founder, chairman and CEO, Lei Jun. It has been two years since the China-based tech...
Wednesday 8 March 2023
ChatGPT to drive AI CPU upgrades for PCs
As ChatGPT embraces the speech-to-text capability and incorporates Whisper APIs, the semiconductor supply chain and terminal electronics devices associated with speech recognition...