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MediaTek joins hands with China Unicom and China Telecom to complete 5G SA 3.5GHz dual-carrier aggregation test
Feb
Recently, MediaTek, together with China Unicom and China Telecom, successfully completed the real network test of 5G independent networking (SA) 3.5GHz band 200MHz carrier aggregation (CA), and the measured downlink rate averaged more than 2.5Gbps. Entering the commercial stage of 5G independent networking, MediaTek will further work closely with operators to provid…
Expansion of photoresist production capacity! Shin-Etsu Chemical plans to spend US$285 million to set up factories in Japan and Taiwan
Feb
According to the Nikkei Asian Review, Shin-Etsu Chemical will spend about 30 billion yen (US$285 million) to increase the production capacity of semiconductor photoresist by 20% to expand the production of key semiconductor materials for high-end chip manufacturing. supply.
The report pointed out that Shin-Etsu Chemical will build factories in Japan and Taiwan. A…
Korean media: Korean semiconductor materials, parts and equipment manufacturers have improved their competitiveness
Feb
According to Korean media businesskorea, Japan announced last year that it would impose export restrictions on South Korean companies, which aroused concerns among South Korean small and medium-sized semiconductor material and component manufacturers.
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Set up a factory in the United States will settle in Phoenix, TSMC: has not yet made a final decision to build a factory
Feb
After the foundry leader TSMC (2330-TW) announced that it would build a 5-nanometer factory in Arizona, the topic of setting up a factory in the United States has always been the focus of the market, and TSMC’s deputy general manager of global government affairs Cleveland (Peter Cleveland) on LinkedIn The posting accidentally revealed that TSMC’s new US plant wi…
STMicroelectronics acquires SOMOS Semiconductor, a professional company in power amplifiers and RF front-end modules
Feb
STMicroelectronics (ST; NYSE: STM), the world's leading semiconductor supplier spanning multiple electronic applications, announced the acquisition of the assets of SOMOS Semiconductor Corporation ("SOMOS") on October 16. SOMOS, headquartered in Marly-le-Roy, France, is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2018, specializing in the development of silicon-based…
Dialog licenses non-volatile resistive RAM technology to GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX platform to serve IoT and AI applications
Feb
Leading battery and power management, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), industrial edge computing solutions provider Dialog Semiconductor and the world's leading special process semiconductor foundry GLOBALFOUNDRIES united on October 20, 2020 Announced that it has reached an agreement for Dialog to license the conductive bridge RAM (CBRAM) technology to GF.
This…
MediaTek enters the supermicro chain for the first time, exclusively supplies high-speed computing chips
Feb
MediaTek also made major breakthroughs in the non-mobile phone sector when it received orders for 5G. According to the supply chain, AMD has attacked the new generation of high-speed computing (HPC) servers and came to Taiwan to cooperate with MediaTek. MediaTek exclusively supplies the AMD serializer and deserializer (SerDes) chips. This is the first time that Medi…
Lee Jae-yong's visit to ASML's purpose was exposed, urging 9 EUV lithography machines to be shipped in advance
Feb
According to a businesskorea report, Samsung Electronics Vice President Li Jae-yong is urging ASML executives to deliver the nine EUV lithography machines ordered by Samsung this year as soon as possible.
The report pointed out that Li Zayong met with ASML CEO Peter Wennink and CTO Martin van den Brink when he visited the Netherlands. Li Zairong asked ASML to del…
TSMC's advanced manufacturing process continues to advance to drive demand for related equipment next year
Feb
TSMC continues to promote high-end manufacturing processes, driving demand for related semiconductor equipment and test equipment. Semiconductor test equipment manufacturer Advantest said that next year the equipment industry will continue to benefit from advanced semiconductor processes and 5G applications to drive system-on-a-chip testing. It is expected next year…
Huawei's ban hits Taiwan PCB factories, orders plummeted, and production lines were consolidated
Feb
According to Taiwanese media Zhongshi Electronic News, Taiwan Xinggui PCB Factory Mutual Co., Ltd. has suffered a serious decline in orders due to the impact of the Sino-US trade war on its main end customer Huawei. The company's board of directors passed a resolution on the 19th to stop production after digesting the existing orders in the Taiwan plant and transfer…
Taiwanese media: Sino-US trade war affects semiconductor equipment manufacturers, ASML, applied materials, prospects unknown
Feb
According to a Taiwan media digitimes report, the latest US ban on Huawei officially took effect on September 15. Although semiconductor equipment manufacturers including Applied Materials and ASML are expected to benefit from TSMC, Samsung and Intel in the next few years to accelerate the implementation of advanced manufacturing processes As well as EUV technology,…
Focus on semiconductor manufacturing innovation! SK Hynix invests in AI company Gauss Labs
Feb
According to a businesskorea report, SK Hynix today (22) announced its investment in Gauss Labs, aiming to lead semiconductor manufacturing innovation through industrial artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
The report pointed out that after Gauss Labs established its headquarters in Silicon Valley, USA last month, it will set up an office in South Korea later …
Qualcomm and Microsoft extend the application assurance program to Windows 10 PCs equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon computing platform
Feb
On September 22, 2020, Microsoft announced at its annual Ignite conference to deepen cooperation with Qualcomm to further improve the performance and application compatibility experience of Windows 10 devices equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon™ computing platform. During the conference, Microsoft announced the expansion of its App Assure (App Assure) program, which…
SEMI: Global semiconductor equipment shipments this year are expected to reach 65 billion U.S. dollars, which may hit a new high next year
Feb
According to the Economic Daily, Zeng Ruiyu, the research director of SEMI industry, said in a report at a press conference before the SEMI show that the growth of the semiconductor industry can be expected, but the uncertain factors may continue until 2021.
Benefited from the investment of logic and foundry in advanced process, the shipment of fab equipment is s…
Taiwan Media: TSMC’s 5nm wafers cost about $17,000 each
Feb
According to digitimes, a report by the American think tank CSET shows that the cost of a 12-inch wafer manufactured at a 5nm node is about 16,988 US dollars, which is much higher than the cost of the same specification at a 7nm node of US$9346. If you use 600 square millimeters of die (about the same size as the GA102 GPU used by NVIDIA RTX 3080 and 3090), the cost…