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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has entered into a 10-year agreement with GlobalFoundries (GF) to procure U.S. chips for vital defense and aerospace applications. The initial commitment is valued at USD17.3M, with the potential to reach USD3.1B over the… Read more ›

TSMC is said to be cautious about the outlook for customer demand and has notified major suppliers, including Dutch chip production equipment giant ASML, to postpone the delivery of high-end chip manufacturing equipment to TSMC, but the delay is expected… Read more ›

Encouraged by the American government, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), is making its first factory in the US. Apple plans to buy chips from the Arizona factory. The plant will kick off production of chips by 2024. But things have… Read more ›

Intel plans on taking the help of TSMC in the future, as its foundry division becomes a victim of delays and process inefficiencies. Goldman Sachs Securities has noted that Intel has been consistently grappling with process upgrade delays since the… Read more ›

Apple will receive all of TSMC’s first-generation 3nm process chips in 2023 for upcoming iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to Digitimes. As early as May 2023, Apple was known to have booked nearly 90% of the Taiwanese pure-play foundry for… Read more ›

Huawei has been accused of building a a series of secret chip-making facilities across China, under the names of other companies, to help the technology company bypass US sanctions. Huawei reportedly moved into chip production in 2022 and was receiving… Read more ›

Global governments are securing graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI development, with countries like UK and Saudi Arabia investing heavily. Saudi Arabia and UAE have purchased thousands of Nvidia’s H100 chips for AI research and innovation, despite the high cost… Read more ›

Samsung Electronics’ Taylor, Texas chip factory will manufacture U.S.-based AI chip designer Groq’s next-generation processor using its 4nm manufacturing technology. The Taylor chip factory is Samsung’s USD17B chip manufacturing project, slated to finish construction within 2023 and start mass production… Read more ›

As the recovery of the mobile phone market is not as good as expected, it is believed that to speed up the clearance of inventory, Qualcomm is going to lower cost, mainly focusing on low-end 5G mobile phone chips, with… Read more ›

SoftBank Group’s British chip design unit, Arm, allegedly plans to float its shares in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq in Sept 2023. The unit’s market capitalization by that time is expected to be more than USD60B, which would… Read more ›

Intel has allocated USD425M, or approximately 34%, of its inaugural USD1.25B green bond proceeds. As highlighted in its first green bond impact report, the proceeds, which support Intel’s investments in sustainable operations, have been allocated across five project categories: pollution… Read more ›

TSMC Chairman Mark Liu has announced that the new global R&D center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, aims to explore cutting-edge chip technologies below 2nm or even 1.4nm process in the next 20 years. TSMC CEO CC Wei also attended the inauguration… Read more ›

Intel has unveiled its new ambitious plans to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into every product it creates. Intel CEO Pat Geslinger has stated that the company would take a more comprehensive approach, with the expectation that AI will eventually become… Read more ›

Barclays analysts Blayne Curtis and Tom O’Malley believe that Apple is no longer planning to launch a fourth-generation iPhone SE in 2024. The analysts said the device was expected to feature an Apple-designed 5G modem, but the plans appear to… Read more ›

Qualcomm Technologies and Meta are working to optimize the execution of Meta’s Llama 2 large language models directly on-device – without relying on the sole use of cloud services. Qualcomm is scheduled to make available Llama 2-based AI implementations on… Read more ›

South Korean AI startup Rebellions wants to launch alternatives to AI chips offered by market leader Nvidia. Rebellions CEO Park Sunghyun said the startup’s goal is to, within 1-2 years, find specific applications that it can offer AI chips that… Read more ›