TSMC’s Chip Scaling Efforts Reach Crossroads at 2nm
posted on June 24, 2021 18:01
Perpetuating Moore’s Law — the observation that the transistor density in a typical chip doubles every two years — poses a number of challenges at the 3nm node, yet Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) remains optimistic.
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Intel CEO sees ’10 good years’ of chip industry growth
posted on June 17, 2021 18:05
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that he expects 10 “good years” of growth in the semiconductor industry during a panel at CNBC’s Evolve conference on Wednesday.
“We believe the market, the world, is in a very expansionary period,” Gelsinger told CNBC’s Jon Fortt. “I predict there’s 10 good years in front of us, because the world is becoming more digital, and everything digital needs semiconductors.”
As Semiconductor Spending Explodes,This Sure Feels Like a Super Cycle!
posted on June 17, 2021 18:04
What a time to be in the semiconductor industry! If you’re a chip manufacturer you’re currently being blamed for the woes of the supply chain and shortages, because you failed to anticipate demand..
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Taiwan’s TSMC mulling US chip packaging plant
posted on June 17, 2021 18:03
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is thinking about building a chip packaging facility in the U.S.
According to Nikkei Asia, the advanced IC packaging facility would be TSMC’s first such plant outside of Taiwan and comes amid a push by the American government to have more of the tech supply chain in the U.S.
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US, Europe tackle Chinese locUS, Europe tackle Chinese lock on rare earth metals
posted on June 17, 2021 18:02
What if China were to cut off the United States and Europe from access to rare minerals that are essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines and drones?
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Update: Google Used a New AI to Design Its Next AI Chip
posted on June 17, 2021 18:01
Google reports this week in the journal Nature that its next generation AI chip, succeeding the TPU version 4, was designed in part using an AI that researchers described to IEEE Spectrum last year.
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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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