Google is announcing the expansion of partnership with SkyWater Technology. Google is working together to release an open source process design kit (PDK) for SKY90-FD, SkyWater’s commercial 90nm fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) CMOS process technology. SKY90-FD is based… Read more ›
According to IDC, 67.2M smartphones shipped in China in 2Q22, down 14.7% YoY. In 1H22, the market also saw a 14.4% YoY decline with around 140M units. Although the overall smartphone market showed weak momentum, foldables stood out by growing… Read more ›
According to TF Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo, the world’s largest GaAs foundry WIN Semiconductors has offered a conservative 2H22 outlook, mainly due to weak demand for Android phones. His latest survey indicates that other component suppliers (e.g., MOSFET, adapters, camera… Read more ›
Amid India’s efforts to build a local semiconductor supply chain, a Taiwanese delegation, with members including semiconductor manufacturers, is reportedly planning to visit India for semiconductor cooperation. After the Indian side visited Taiwan twice in 2021 to discuss semiconductor cooperation,… Read more ›
Samsung is considering investing around USD200B in new semiconductor plants in the Austin area. Samsung has filed 11 applications in Texas, where it is seeking tax breaks potentially amounting to USD4.8B for the construction of the chip factories, if all… Read more ›
To succeed the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform, Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and the W5+ Gen 1. Qualcomm touts that its new wearable chipsets will offer up to 2X the performance using half as much power compared to… Read more ›
Google has removed its open source Zircon-based operating system Fuchsia’s code from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Google seemingly started working on Fuchsia back in 2016 and in 2019, it was described as one of the company’s experiments around… Read more ›
The Indian Finance Ministry has said that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has detected Customs duty evasion of around INR4,389 crore (USD551M) by OPPO Mobiles India. The company has been issued a showcause notice, following the recovery of documents… Read more ›
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has started mass production of 3nm chips for some customers in the high-performance computing segment, ahead of TSMC in terms of mastering this stage of lithography. Samsung decision to start manufacturing 3nm chips at… Read more ›
Global smartphone chipset (SoC/AP+Baseband) shipment declined 5% YoY in 1Q22 due to seasonality, weaker demand in China amid lockdowns and over shipping from some chipset vendors in 4Q21, according to Counterpoint Research. However, this decline was offset by strong growth… Read more ›
Japanese chemicals supplier Showa Denko K.K. expects to further raise prices and cut back unprofitable product lines as it grapples with a barrage of economic challenges confronting the USD550B semiconductor industry. That is on top of at least a dozen… Read more ›
Taiwanese foundries are still operating at full capacity for both 200mm and 300mm wafer production. The 28nm process is running at full capacity, but demand looks to be slowing somewhat. Foundries have maintained full capacity utilization by increasing production of… Read more ›
Arm has announced second generation of Armv9 based CPUs. These include the Arm Cortex-X3 and Arm Cortex-A715, as well as important updates to Arm Cortex-A510 and the DSU-110 (DynamIQ Shared Unit). The new Armv9 CPUs and updates form the foundation… Read more ›
TSMC President C. C. Wei has mentioned that TSMC will start building 7 factories in 2021, and will start building 5 new factories in Taiwan and overseas in 2022. TSMC’s gigafab expansion plans typically include adding 2 new fabs per… Read more ›
Carmaker Stellantis will halt production at its Rennes-La Janais Citroen plant in Brittany 3 July 2022 due to a chip shortage. Another production halt at the Sochaux Peugeot plant in eastern France was extended until the end of Jun 2022,… Read more ›
Apple’s AirTag could see a second-generation release, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suspects, but only if shipments of the tracking accessory continue to grow. The AirTag has gradually grown in shipments since its release. The shipment estimates for the tracker… Read more ›