What the AI Chip Market is All About
posted on August 10, 2020 06:05
Right now, the AI chip market is all about deep learning. Deep learning (DL) is the most successful of machine learning paradigms at making AI applications useful in the real world.
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Huawei running out of phone chips
posted on August 10, 2020 06:04
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co (華為) is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to US sanctions and would be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive has said, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei’s business from US pressure.
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Applied Materials Says New Tool Breaks Chip Resistance Bottleneck
posted on August 10, 2020 06:03
The regular scaling down in the size of transistors has always had a similar scaling down in the size of the vertical metal contacts that bridge the devices themselves to the wiring that links them up to form logic.
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Combating Counterfeit Chips
posted on August 10, 2020 06:02
The harsh reality is that today, the authenticity of chips is often impossible to guarantee. The counterfeit chip market is sizeable and growing with a worldwide value estimated at $75B in 2019. Those counterfeits are believed to have been integrated into more than $169B of electronic devices.
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SMIC founder says 'optimistic' China can catch up with U.S. in semiconductors
posted on August 10, 2020 06:01
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The founder of China’s largest chipmaker SMIC said on Tuesday he was “optimistic” China could catch up with the United States in the next generation of semiconductors but that U.S. efforts to contain its technology sector could not be taken “lightly”.
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Nvidia Buying Arm Would be Reckless
posted on August 05, 2020 09:05
Nvidia Corp. is reported to be in talks to purchase Arm Holdings Plc. If true, the move would be beyond stupid. It would be reckless and would ignite a firestorm of negative reactions from current and potential Arm licenses and be, on a long-term basis, counter productive for Nvidia and its shareholders.
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Samsung Electronics to halt production at its last computer factory in China
posted on August 05, 2020 09:04
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co will halt operations of its last computer factory in China, the South Korean tech giant said on Saturday, the latest manufacturer to shift production from the world’s second-biggest economy.
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Taiwan could become the next flashpoint in the global tech war
posted on August 05, 2020 09:03
The world is becoming increasingly dependent on a Taiwanese company for the most advanced semiconductors, after a stumble by rival Intel. But TSMC is trying to pull off a high-wire act by keeping both China and the United States happy at a time of rapidly escalating geopolitical tensions.
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Next Challenge: Parts Per Quadrillion
posted on August 05, 2020 09:02
Requirements for purity of the materials used in semiconductor manufacturing are being pushed to unprecedented — and increasingly unprovable — levels as demand for reliability in chips over increasingly longer lifetimes continues to rise. And while this may seem like a remote problem for many parts of the supply chain, it can affect everything from availability of materials needed to make those chips to the ultimate cost of a product.
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Intel is a Potentially Great Foundry
posted on August 05, 2020 09:01
An Intel with the right vision should be aiming for TSMC’s wafer foundry crown. An Intel with the right backbone should not be whining about having fallen one or two process technology behind TSMC. It should get back on the horse, mobilize and rearm its engineering workforce and assure investors it has what it takes to restore its technology leadership.
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