Entries for January 2020
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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