STMicroelectronics NV said it plans to spend €5 billion ($5.4 billion) on a manufacturing plant for chips and packaging in Catania, Italy in a multi-year project that's being partly funded by the European Union's Chips Act.
South Korea's semiconductor inventories dwindled by the most since 2014, underscoring the pace at which demand is outstripping supply as customers rev up their purchases of devices needed to develop artificial intelligence technologies.
If Taiwan does not have enough power supply, the semiconductor and Artificial Intelligence (AI) industries will not stay in Taiwan, commented Kuo Jyh-Huei, the new minister of economic affairs.
As previous subsidies of a total of JPY920 billion (nearly US$6 billion) may not be sufficient to help Rapidus achieve its goal of mass-producing 2nm chips, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) plans to propose legislation to provide loan guarantees for the chipmaker.
Skymizer, a prominent Taiwan-based AI system software provider known for its compiler optimization solutions, has announced the release of EdgeThought, its new software-hardware co-design AI ASIC IP.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed two months ago, at a dinner party for Taiwanese partners in Silicon Valley, that he considers himself Taiwan's ambassador. Taiwan is positioned as a key player in the AI revolution, and all Taiwanese businesses must be prepared to effectively tell the "Taiwan story" to the rest of the world.
NVIDIA's latest financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 (February to April 2024) revealed record-breaking revenue for its data center division. Following a record-setting US$18.4 billion revenue in the previous quarter, the data center division in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 set a new record again with US$22.6 billion in revenue.
The Chinese semiconductor industry, including the CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) segment, is finding more room for development in the domestic market with the sudden rise of the Chinese smartphone and Electric Vehicle (EV) industries.
The new head of Samsung Electronics Co.'s semiconductor division urged employees to work their way past challenges in the business, making his first remarks to staff after the surprise departure of his predecessor last week.
Samsung Electronics has recently expanded its workforce deployment at its new packaging R&D base in Yokohama, Japan, to expedite construction and support the development of next-generation semiconductor packaging technologies.
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a graphic memory with high bandwidth. Its main function is to support High-Performance Computing (HPC) or high-speed parallel computing with CPU/GPU in Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS), with the government allocating MYR25 billion (US$5.3 billion) to foster industry development.
US semiconductor manufacturer Coherent is facing the potential closure or sale of its 29,000-square-meter wafer fab in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, UK.
Nvidia is reportedly planning to adopt Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging (FOPLP) technology for its GB200 AI server chips ahead of schedule, aimed at addressing the tight production capacity of Chip on Wafer on Substrate (CoWoS) packaging at TSMC.
To establish its foothold amidst the AI wave, Samsung Electronics has been aggressively enhancing the competitiveness of its AI business through semiconductors, Generative AI, and home appliances. To do so, Samsung is adjusting its investments, recruiting talent, and restructuring its organization.
The semiconductor industry is the lifeblood of South Korea, a country that heavily depends on its exports. In 2023, South Korea exported US$131 billion of semiconductors and imported US$106 billion, raking in US$25 billion in trade surplus. For Taiwan, when there is a trade deficit, it only amounts to a fraction of its foreign reserve, but that would be a heavy burden to South Korea, which is already shouldering US$663.6 billion in foreign debt.
Amid the global shifts in the chip industry, Malaysia is promoting its neutrality, non-alignment, and established IC backend industry as key advantages to advance and build a more mature semiconductor ecosystem.
China's freshly launched CNY344 billion (US$47.5 billion) national chip fund is likely to prioritize investments in major semiconductor firms, supporting their development of AI computing power and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), as well as lithography tools that are crucial to advanced chip manufacturing.
China's domestic AI chipmakers are making fast progress in closing the gap on international leaders, according to SenseTime Group Inc. co-founder Xu Bing.
Chinese CPU maker Loongson Technology Founder and Chairman Hu Weiwu, who is also a Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology researcher, told Xinhua News Agency that Loonson's next-generation CPU will match the performance of Intel's 12th-generation Core i5.
South Korean media outlets Money Today and Yonhap News reported that the Industrial Technology Security Investigation Team of the South Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency arrested a former SK Hynix employee in her 30s, a Chinese national, in April 2024 on suspicion of violating the Industrial Technology Leakage Prevention and Protection Act. The prosecution initiated the indictment process in early May.
