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Monday 11 December 2023
Weekly news roundup: With 300 immersion lithography DUV machines, can China expand advanced chip capacity and other top stories
These are the most-read tech stories during the week of December 4-8:
Friday 8 December 2023
Japanese semiconductor players keen to enhance production processes with quantum annealing technology
Quantum technology, initially used in semiconductor R&D, is now making significant strides in optimizing combinatorial processes. Japan's semiconductor player Rohm is beginning...
Friday 8 December 2023
Rising memory chip prices to boost revenue, says Supreme
Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics, a major IC distributor for Samsung Electronics, expects rising NAND flash and DRAM chip prices to buoy its sales performance in the fourth quarter...
Friday 8 December 2023
TSMC Outstanding Suppliers Award list shows value of Taiwanese partners
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on December 7 held its 2023 Supply Chain Management Forum and presented awards to outstanding supplier partners in gratitude for...
Friday 8 December 2023
Novatek to supply OLED DDIs for iPhones say sources
Novatek Microelectronics, with its OLED display driver ICs (DDI), has entered the supply chain for Apple's iPhones that are set to be released in 2024, according to industry source...
Friday 8 December 2023
Nvidia sees Huawei as a formidable competitor, but questions remain about the Chinese vendor's chip progress
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has described Huawei as a formidable rival to his company in the Chinese market, despite the fact that many in the semiconductor industry are wondering how...
Thursday 7 December 2023
AI startup Sarvam raises $41 million to tap India growth
A generative artificial intelligence startup targeting the Indian market raised $41 million in fresh funding, the largest such round by an early-stage AI contender in the country.
Thursday 7 December 2023
Samsung and SK Hynix will both supply HBM3 for AWS Trainium 2
Following Nvidia and AMD's footsteps, cloud service provider AWS has started to design its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) chips. This move is deemed beneficial for the growth...
Thursday 7 December 2023
Microsoft and others adopt new AMD AI chips for training and inference solutions
AMD's "Advancing AI" event on December 6 was attended by industry leaders such as Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, Arista, Broadcom, and Cisco...
Thursday 7 December 2023
WT Micro's US$3.8b merger fuels ongoing evolution in global IC distribution
In recent years, a wave of consolidation has swept through the global IC trading sector, with companies seeking to stand out in a fiercely competitive market by engaging in mergers...
Thursday 7 December 2023
South Korean fab toolmaker Nextin expanding its presence in China amid US export restrictions
South Korean wafer inspection equipment manufacturer Nextin is benefiting indirectly from the US restrictions on semiconductor equipment exports to China and is accelerating its entry...
Thursday 7 December 2023
Taiwan chip foundries' existing China investment not affected by latest core key tech ban
Advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology under 14nm was included in the list of 22 key core technologies to be banned from illegal outflows to foreign adversaries on December...
Thursday 7 December 2023
Canada's Clarius eyes the Asian market with handheld ultrasound scanners armed with cutting-edge AMD chips
Established in 2014, Clarius, a Canada-based company with 150 staff around the world, made waves in the medical imaging realm with the introduction of one of the pioneering handheld...
Thursday 7 December 2023
Servers drive optimism for PCB maker ACCL, as it evaluates ASEAN production
PCB maker Allied Circuit (ACCL) held its earnings call on December 6, during which spokesman Tony Chan predicted a better fourth quarter in 2023 compared to the third quarter and...
Thursday 7 December 2023
Taiwan ASIC developers gain from intense AI chip race
According to industry sources, more cloud service providers (CSP) are building their own AI chips, which benefits Taiwan-based ASIC service and silicon IP providers.