Foundry Wars Begin
posted on April 26, 2021 20:05
Leading-edge foundry vendors are gearing up for a new, high-stakes spending and technology race, setting the stage for a possible shakeup across the semiconductor manufacturing landscape.
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Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors
posted on April 26, 2021 20:04
Almost from the moment Cerebras Systems announced a computer based on the largest single computer chip ever built, the Silicon Valley startup declared its intentions to build an even heftier processor. Today, the company announced that its next-gen chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE 2), will be available in the 3rd quarter of this year.
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Will Quantum Computing Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
posted on April 26, 2021 20:03
Quantum computers have been on my mind a lot lately. A friend who likes investing in tech, and who knows about my attempt to learn quantum mechanics, has been sending me articles on how quantum computers might help solve “some of the biggest and most complex challenges we face as humans,” as a Forbes commentator declared recently.
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Get Ready for the Next Front in the Net Neutrality Fight
posted on April 26, 2021 20:02
You’re about to hear a lot about network neutrality again, now that the Biden administration is in the White House. Last time, the issue was ensuring that Internet service providers (ISPs) wouldn’t discriminate against different sources of legal traffic on their network. This time around, you should expect the debate to be about whether to give the Federal Communications Commission enough legal standing to regulate the Internet.
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. Latest IC Forecast: Big Demand, Shortages
posted on April 26, 2021 20:01
Over the last year, the semiconductor industry has seen its share of highs, lows and uncertainties.
In early 2020, the business looked bright, but the IC market dropped amid the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Throughout 2020 different countries implemented a number of measures to mitigate the outbreak, such as stay-at-home orders and business closures. Economic turmoil and job losses soon followed.
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GlobalFoundries CEO Caulfield Stands Up for the 70%
posted on April 13, 2021 19:05
In the midst of global upheaval that has inspired the Biden Administration to earmark $50 billion to ensure that more advanced semiconductor manufacturing gets performed domestically, Tom Caulfield is scrapping for recognition for a chip company that is already here, that is already doing advanced IC manufacturing, but that hardly anyone outside the electronics industry has ever heard of because it specializes in making the types of ICs that few outside the electronics industry pay any attention to.
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Many Chiplet Challenges Ahead
posted on April 13, 2021 19:04
Advanced packaging is seen as the most likely path to keep Moore’s Law going, but there are several challenges that have yet to be overcome — and several lurking pitfalls for the unaware. Some of these are technical, some business, and other just because the necessary skills are distributed today, meaning that there could be knowledge gaps created by silos.
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. As Biden works to fix chips shortage, Intel promises help for automakers
posted on April 13, 2021 19:03
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden met with executives from major companies on Monday to discuss the global chip shortage that has hit automakers and spurred Intel Corp to announce it plans to make chips for car plants at its factories in the next six to nine months.
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Global Semiconductor Sales Up 14.7% Year-to-Year in February
posted on April 13, 2021 19:02
WASHINGTON—April 5, 2021—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor industry sales were $39.6 billion for the month of February 2021, an increase of 14.7% over the February 2020 total of $34.5 billion, but 1.0% less than the January 2021 total of $40.0 billion.
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Germany’s ‘Silicon Saxony’ soars on chip demand
posted on April 13, 2021 19:01
Soaring demand for chips and other key semiconductor products is fuelling expansion around the world, but none so much as the chip makers in Dresden, home to a growing cluster of IT and microelectronics manufacturers.
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