Trump administration pressed Dutch hard to cancel China chip-equipment sale: sources
posted on January 15, 2020 12:05
WASHINGTON/AMSTERDAM/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Trump administration mounted an extensive campaign to block the sale of Dutch chip manufacturing technology to China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lobbying the Netherlands government and White House officials sharing a classified intelligence report with the country’s Prime Minister, people familiar with the effort told Reuters.
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2D and 3D Combo Could Keep Moore’s Law Going
posted on January 15, 2020 12:04
Ultra-compact, yet high-performing electronic chips could overcome the challenges that face conventional integrated circuits and maintain Moore’s Law indefinitely, researchers say.
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The great US-China tech decoupling: Where are we now?
posted on January 15, 2020 12:03
TAIPEI -- For Toshio Nakama, the battle between China and the U.S. for global tech supremacy has been a boon. Last year S2C, the chip design tools company that he co-founded 16 years ago in Silicon Valley and later moved to Shanghai, was bought by SMIT Holding, a Chinese group backed by Beijing's China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, nicknamed the "Big Fund."
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Behind Samsung’s $116bn bid for chip supremacy
posted on January 15, 2020 12:02
INTERNATIONAL - Technology giants are increasingly designing their own semiconductors to optimize everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life.
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Where Technology Breakthroughs Are Needed
posted on January 15, 2020 12:01
After years of delays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is finally in production at the 7nm logic node with 5nm in the works.
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Scaling, Packaging, And Partitioning
posted on December 19, 2019 10:05
Prior to the finFET era, most chipmakers either focused on shrinking or packaging, but they rarely did both. Going forward, the two will be inseparable, and that will lead to big challenges with partitioning of data and processing.
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Fab Equipment Spending Crawls Out of Slump in Second Half 2019 – But Roller Coast to Continue in 2020
posted on December 19, 2019 10:04
Global fab equipment spending is slowly crawling out of its slump in the second half of 2019 with a pickup in investments in memory – particularly 3D NAND – leading-edge logic and foundries. Compared to the first half of 2019, the second half smacks of a recovery, with fab equipment spending revised upward to show a stronger 2019 overall in the latest update of the World Fab Forecast report, published by SEMI.
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TSMC’s 5-Nanometer Process on Track for First Half of 2020
posted on December 19, 2019 10:03
“Those who know, know.” That was all that TSMC senior director of advanced technology Geoffrey Yeap would say about the mystery ingredient that helps boost the performance of devices made using the company’s next generation manufacturing process.
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China’s Chip Quest Is All Heart, Not Enough Brain
posted on December 19, 2019 10:02
China has made developing its own chip industry a matter of patriotic pride. It helps that “China chip” and “China heart” sound the same in the local language. The strain of this 1.7 trillion yuan ($243 billion) endeavor may be too much for the debt-clogged arteries of its municipal governments, though.
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Into The Cold And Darkness
posted on December 19, 2019 10:01
The need for speed is limitless. There is far more data to process, and there is competition on a global scale to process it fastest and most efficiently. But how to achieve future revs of improvements will begin to look very different from the past.
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