Semiconductor manufacturer Global Foundries is increasing its production capacity in Singapore with a huge investment of US$4 billion (S$5.4 billion). The company said on Tuesday (June 22) that it has added a new wafer fab or manufacturing plant in the…
The Berkeley engineering students completed a novel chip design in just one semester! The class demonstrates a successful model of expanding into the field of semiconductor design.
As part of the China-US trade war, when the US government effectively forced Huawei’s subsidiary HiSilicon to withdraw from the smartphone chip business last year, Qualcomm and MediaTek filled the gap left by Huawei. The Chinese government-backed Huawei and its…
To achieve this goal, the Google team used a data set of 10,000 chip layouts for machine learning models, and then used reinforcement learning for training.
Qualcomm’s chief executive said that if Nvidia’s deal with Arm violates regulatory review, and then SoftBank decides to IPO, Qualcomm will prepare to buy Arm’s shares together with other technology companies.
Last week, the automotive software company Indie Semiconductor (NASDAQ: INDI) went public through a reverse merger with SPAC Thunder Bridge Acquisition II. The combined company’s balance sheet has $495 million in cash.
According to Reuters, Intel has bid $2 billion to acquire SiFive, a 6-year-old RISC-V chip design company.
In a latest news, TSMC beats IBM’s 2nm chip technology hype with 1nm proposition. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), The National Taiwan University (NTU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have collectively announced a major breakthrough in the development of…
As per reports, South Korea plans to spend US$450 billion on semiconductors in logic chip manufacturing and R&D by 2030. It is not yet clear how large the subsidy will be, but these funds will include a mixture of government…
IBM launches the world’s first 2nm chip. The 2nm chips can hold more than 300 million transistors in one square millimeter!