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.
View Full Article . . .
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.
View Full Article . . .
. 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.
View Full Article . . .
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.
View Full Article . . .
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.
View Full Article . . .
Intel Drops a Bomb, Not the Ball
posted on March 30, 2021 17:05
Intel rewarded the patient this week as Pat Gelsinger made some very big announcements about the formation of a standalone foundry business, increased partnerships with TSMC for manufacturing of Intel processor products, and a huge promised investment in new manufacturing plants in Arizona. EETimes editor Brian Santo provided an excellent synposis and analysis of Gelsinger’s web presentation.
View Full Article . . .
Samsung develops HKMG-based DDR5 memory
posted on March 30, 2021 17:04
Samsung Electronics has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with a 512GB DDR5 module based on high-K metal gate (HKMG) process technology, according to the company. Delivering more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 megabits per second (Mbps), the new DDR5 will be capable of orchestrating the most extreme compute-hungry, high-bandwidth workloads in supercomputing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), as well as data analytics applications, it said.
View Full Article . . .
Micron Exits 3D XPoint Market, Eyes CXL Opportunities
posted on March 30, 2021 17:03
TORONTO — Micron Technology’s exit from the 3D XPoint market should come as little surprise. The memory maker’s decision follows on several years of not talking much about a technology it jointly developed with Intel Corp.
View Full Article . . .
Waiting For Chiplet Standards
posted on March 30, 2021 17:02
The need and desire for chiplets is increasing, but for most companies that shift will happen slowly until proven standards are in place.
View Full Article . . .
(Re)Shoring Up Semiconductor Manufacturing
posted on March 30, 2021 17:01
Sometimes history can be difficult to decipher. But the reasons why manufacturing moved out of the United States are blatantly obvious — cheap labor and reduced regulation.
Even though the analysis might be easy, history can still be difficult once those old mistakes start becoming clearer.
View Full Article . . .
|
|