Entries for August 2022
3D Stacked CMOS Takes Moore’s Law to New Heights
posted on August 15, 2022 09:05
Perhaps the most far reaching technological achievement over the past 50 years has been the steady march toward ever smaller transistors, fitting them more tightly together, and reducing their power consumption.
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IFTLE 527: 2nm Chips Scheduled for 2025; Advanced Packaging Becoming More Powerful Industry Segment 2.
posted on August 15, 2022 09:04
At its recent North America Technology Symposium TSMC announced that it will begin volume production of 2nm chips by 2025. TSMC’s roadmap is similar to that of its major competitors—Samsung and Intel—which also have reported also have plans to manufacture 2nm chips around 2025.
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Semiconductor shortage is chipping away at car safety features
posted on August 15, 2022 09:03
Automakers struggling to build vehicles during the supply crisis of these essential components have had to remove a variety of electronic features from their vehicles to keep the assembly lines moving over the past two years.
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Micron to invest $40 billion in U.S. chip manufacturing
posted on August 15, 2022 09:02
Micron announced Tuesday it will invest $40 billion between now and 2030 to manufacture chips in the U.S. The investment is supported by grants and credits from the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday.
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Semiconductor slide enters sixth month
posted on August 15, 2022 09:01
World chip sales growth has decelerated for six straight months in another sign that the global economy is straining under the weight of rising interest rates and mounting geopolitical risks.
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TSMC to slow production as Intel delays chip launch
posted on August 10, 2022 08:05
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s biggest contract chipmaker, has decided to slow down its 3-nanometer chip production as Intel Corp, one of its major customers, plans to push back the launch of its new Meteor Lake tGPU chipsets to the end of next year, market researcher TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) said yesterday.
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Pelosi’s Taiwan trip puts the world’s biggest chipmaker back in the spotlight of U.S.-China rivalry
posted on August 10, 2022 08:04
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have left Taiwan but the visit has cast a spotlight once again on the island’s critical role in the global chip supply chain and in particular on the world’s biggest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC.
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Cooling Semiconductor Sales Heighten Fears of a Global Recession
posted on August 10, 2022 08:03
World chip sales growth has decelerated for six straight months -- yet another sign the global economy is straining under the weight of rising interest rates and mounting geopolitical risks.
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Chip Backdoors: Assessing The Threat
posted on August 10, 2022 08:02
In 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek made an explosive claim: Chinese spies had implanted backdoors in motherboards used by some high-profile customers, including the U.S. Department of Defense. All of those customers issued strongly worded denials.
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SK Hynix develops 238-layer 4D NAND flash
posted on August 10, 2022 08:01
SK Hynix has announced the development of its 238-layer 4D NAND flash memory, with shipments of 512Gb triple-level cell (TLC) chip samples already kicking off.
SK Hynix expects to enter mass production of 238-layer 512Gb TLC 4D NAND flash chips in the first half of 2023.
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