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MediaTek has hired a former U.S. Department of Commerce official to help the Taiwanese chipmaker navigate worsening US-China tensions that have already ensnared its customer Huawei Technologies.
Bloomberg
French-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics raised its full-year net revenue guidance, citing new products, customer schemes and improved market conditions, as it expects the worst to be over for the auto industry.
Reuters
Nvidia and the University of Florida have partnered to build the world's fastest artificial intelligence based-supercomputer in higher education, the chipmaker said on Tuesday.
Reuters
SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker, saw its shares surge 245% at the open on its first day of trade in Shanghai.
CNBC
Semiconductor maker Analog Devices said on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products for about $21 billion in the largest U.S. deal this year, aimed at boosting its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking.
Reuters
Nvidia has overtaken Intel for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker.
Reuters
Europe's second top court on Wednesday cut Infineon Technologies' cartel fine by 7% to 76.87 million euros ($86.7 million), saying that the German chipmaker had fewer anti-competitive contacts with other cartel members than EU antitrust regulators had said.
Reuters
AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies said it will raise 2.58 billion yuan ($367.76 million) in its Shanghai initial public offering after pricing the listing at 64.39 yuan a share.
Reuters
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) will raise 46.29 billion yuan ($6.55 billion) in a Shanghai share sale, more than double its initial target, pricing its offering following a surge in its Hong Kong-listed stock.
Reuters
Chipmaker Intel is the latest U.S. firm to invest a large sum of money in India's Jio Platforms.
CNBC
Yangtze Memory Technologies, China's top memory chipmaker, will roll out its first-ever storage products lineup in the second half of 2020.
Nikkei Asian Review
China's largest contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has filed for a listing in Shanghai that will raise 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion).
CNBC
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies raised about 1.06 billion euros ($1.16 billion) by issuing new shares to partially finance its $10 billion acquisition of U.S.-based Cypress Semiconductor, it said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Intel Capital, the venture arm of chipmaker Intel, has invested in two Chinese startups in the semiconductor sector, the company announced on Wednesday, as part of its latest batch of deals.
Reuters
Chipmaker touts its Ryzen 5 Pro chips can hold up against some mobile Intel i7 chips.
ZDNet
Chipmaker Intel Corp is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli public transit app developer Moovit for $1 billion, financial news website Calcalist reported on Sunday.
Reuters
An attempt to seize control of the board of British graphics chipmaker Imagination Technologies by an investor linked to the Chinese state has failed after intervention by the UK government.
The Financial Times
Chipmaker Broadcom on Thursday pulled its financial projections for the year, citing uncertainty around the coronavirus pandemic, and said it would push debt payments to the second half of the year or earlier if conditions improve.
Wall Street Journal
Intel on Tuesday said EU antitrust regulators got it wrong when they fined the chipmaker 1.06 billion euros ($1.2 billion) more than a decade ago for thwarting a British rival in a case that could affect Google and Qualcomm.
Reuters
Cypress Semiconductor said Monday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) determined that there are no national security concerns with its proposed $10 billion takeover by German chipmaker Infineon Technologies.
Reuters
Analog Devices forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaker braced for a $70 million hit related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Washington has upped the pressure on TSMC to produce its military-use chips in the US, in order to ensure that the world's biggest contract chipmaker can manufacture the high-security components free from potential Chinese interference, sources have told the Nikkei Asian Review.
Nikkei Asian Review
The chipmaker also introduced a new car-to-cloud services platform, as well as a new reference platform to advance Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology.
ZDNet
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia has not offered any concessions to EU antitrust regulators examining its $6.8 billion bid for Mellanox Technologies, the European Commission website showed on Friday.
Reuters
Intel sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple Inc at "a multi-billion dollar loss," the U.S. chipmaker said in a court filing on Friday, alleging that rival Qualcomm forced it out of the market.
Reuters
Caught between a Sino-US trade war, political concerns over Chinese telecoms firm Huawei and slowing consumer demand, chipmakers in Singapore have started slowing production and laying off hundreds of jobs.
The Star Online
Cybersecurity company Symantec has walked away from negotiations to sell itself to chipmaker Broadcom over price disagreements, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Reuters
"Integration is the future," said Bill Bottoms, a veteran engineering educator and entrepreneur overseeing work on a new roadmap for chip stacks. Estimated costs to design a traditional 5nm chip could soar as high as $600 million, and "this can't continue," he said.
EE Times
The Financial Times
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son says he wants to re-list ARM Holdings Plc within five years, re-introducing stock markets to the British chipmaker his company bought for $32 billion in 2016.
Bloomberg
The co-chief executives of China's largest chipmaker are fighting over whether to build a profitable business or focus on leading-edge technology, highlighting the problems plaguing the government's push to build an indigenous semiconductor manufacturing sector.
Chipmaker Texas Instruments said on Tuesday a slowdown in demand for microchips that started late last year may last a few more quarters. The warning from the company, often seen as a bellwether for a semiconductor industry, dragged its shares 3% lower to US$113.88.
Reuters
German chipmaker Infineon cut its 2019 revenue forecast on Wednesday for the second time in as many months, pointing to a weakening Chinese car market, the world's largest, which it supplies.
Reuters
The world's biggest chipmaker on Tuesday said first-quarter results will fall short of estimates as prices for memory chips and displays slid more than expected, just days ahead of releasing preliminary earnings. That came after Apple, which buys smartphone screens from Samsung, cut its revenue outlook in January for the first time in almost two decades.
Bloomberg
Automotive chipmaker Renesas Electronics plans to halt production at six plants in Japan for up to two months this year as it braces for a further slowdown in Chinese demand, the company said on Thursday.
Reuters
Intel has ended a partnership to share its latest 5G modem chips with China's second largest mobile chipmaker amid concerns that the technology transfer could cause problems in Washington, sources have told Nikkei Asian Review.
Nikkei Asian Review
Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics will cut almost 1,000 workers from its payrolls at the end of June, Nikkei has learned, as part of a pivot abroad to compensate for a shrinking domestic market.
Nikkei Asian Review
US sanctions against Fujian Jinhua will force the Chinese state-owned company accused of stealing trade secrets from American memory chipmaker Micron to stop production by March, according to people familiar with the situation.
The Financial Times
Supermicro has sent a letter to its customers saying that it has found no evidence of malicious chips on its motherboards. The company asked third-party company Nardello & Co. to audit Supermicro's hardware.
TechCrunch
For a sense of the damage Donald Trump can inflict on China with export controls, take a trip to the city of Jinjiang on the country's southeastern coast. That's where Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. built a $6 billion plant to produce semiconductors as part of China's goal of making the country a self-sufficient technology powerhouse.
Bloomberg
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