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Wednesday 13 March 2024
Nvidia AI server chips remain in high demand
Demand remains high for Nvidia AI server processors despite the transition from older to newer products, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Hyundai reportedly designing 5nm auto chips
Hyundai Motor is reportedly designing auto semiconductors based on the 5nm process, aiming to ensure a stable supply of advanced chips in the Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) era....
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Taiwan expands Aviation FTZ to expedite AI chips and server shipment
Generative AI has driven huge demand for High-Performance Computing (HPC) chips and AI servers, turning Taiwan into the hardware distribution center for Generative AI hardware in...
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Backend houses upbeat about orders for memory chips
With memory chipmakers ready to scale up output, industry sources indicated that backend houses are optimistic about orders from the memory sector beginning in the second quarter...
Friday 8 March 2024
Huawei chip breakthrough used tech from two US gear suppliers
Huawei Technologies Co. and its partner Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. relied on US technology to produce an advanced chip in China last year, according to people...
Friday 8 March 2024
CHIPS Act funding still waiting for progress as Biden's State of Union Address promises little
US President Joe Biden said in his 2024 State of the Union Address that America is rising and has the lowest trade deficit with China in over a decade. A response from the Semiconductor...
Friday 8 March 2024
xMEMS prepping killer-grade devices, as MEMS speakers surpass conventional technologies
US-based xMEMS Labs, a maker of speaker driver IC chips using Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), is aiming to launch its next-generation Cowell speakers later this year, which...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Taiwan's Phison lends memory expertise to slingshot DeepMentor's LLM training
Taiwan's AI startup DeepMentor has teamed up with memory giant Phison Electronics to edge training servers for training large-scale language models (LLM).
Tuesday 5 March 2024
UMC and PSMC cut into supply chain for AI chips
Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) have received orders for Si interposers, allowing them to enter the supply chain...
Friday 1 March 2024
Democrats demand stronger labor protections in US chips push
Congressional Democrats demanded in a letter Thursday that the Biden administration add more labor protections to its initiative aimed at boosting US semiconductor production.
Friday 1 March 2024
Cloud companies recruiting semiconductor talent; increased opportunities for India and Taiwan
In recent years, major US-based cloud companies have initiated projects to develop chips in-house. Besides outsourcing to external IC design houses, internal demand for semiconductor...
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Apple and Tesla veterans aim to help Japan design AI chips
The Japan government-backed research group...
Friday 23 February 2024
How Japan pulled off an early victory in the race to make more chips
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. unveiled plans to begin building a new chip fabrication facility in Japan in 2022 and start production in 2024, it looked like an implausibly...
Friday 23 February 2024
US will not choke China's access to mature process chips
A US Department of Commerce official said Washington will not limit China's access to mature process chips.
Friday 23 February 2024
As Nvidia's downgraded AI chips go unwanted in China, who is the biggest beneficiary?
Recently, DIGITIMES has had several reports and comments regarding Nvidia's launch of the 2-gen downgraded AI chip H20 designed exclusively for China, but a lack of interest from...