Qualcomm starts sampling X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card
Qualcomm Technologies said it started sampling the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN Platform to customers and partners for...
Nvidia unveils gaming chip with AI features, taps TSMC for manufacturing
Nvidia announced chips for video gamers that use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance graphics. Nvidia has also selected Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to make the...
China’s chip output shrinks as US enhances local manufacturing
As the US has expanded domestic semiconductor manufacturing, China witnessed its biggest-ever monthly decline in chip manufacturing in August.
The production of integrated circuits (ICs)...
US reveals team to manage $52.7 bn in semiconductor funding
The Joe Biden administration has named senior advisers to manage $52.7 billion in government funding to boost semiconductor manufacturing and research.
Commerce Department chief economist...
Arm launches chip design to meet data growth from 5G and IoT
Arm Ltd, a chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group, has launched its data center chip technology called Neoverse V2 to meet the growth...
Cruise to develop own chips for self-driving cars, switching from Nvidia
Cruise, the autonomous driving unit of General Motors, has developed its own chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025, as it aims to...
Apple to use TSMC’s A17 chip producing technology next year
Apple is planning to use an updated version of Taiwan-based chipmaker TSMC’s latest chip producing technology in iPhones and Macbooks next year, Nikkei Asia news...
GlobalWafers to start construction of $5 bn plant in Texas in Nov
Taiwan-based GlobalWafers said it expects to start construction of its $5 billion plant in Texas in November.
GlobalWafers said in June it would build the...
Vedanta-Foxconn JV to invest $19.5 bn in chip, display project in India
A joint venture between India’s Vedanta and Taiwan’s Foxconn will set up semiconductor and display production plants in Indian state Gujarat with an investment of...
Micron broke ground on $15 bn memory manufacturing fab in Boise, Idaho
Micron Technology announced it broke ground on its memory manufacturing fab in Boise, Idaho. This will be the first new memory manufacturing fab in...
Vedanta selects Gujarat state for $20 bn semiconductor project
Vedanta has selected Gujarat state for its semiconductor project. This would be the first major step in its $20 billion joint venture with Taiwan’s...
Intel says it has no plans to start chip manufacturing in India
Intel currently has no plans to establish a manufacturing facility in India, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
The comments came after India's...
Business performance of top 10 global IC design firms in Q2
Revenue of the top ten global IC design firms grew 32 percent to $39.56 billion in Q2 2022, according to TrendForce.
Growth was primarily driven...
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Mobile Platforms
Qualcomm Technologies announced Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Mobile Platforms for its smartphone clients.
Qualcomm said smartphones based on Snapdragon 6...
SK Hynix to invest $11 bn in new chip plant in South Korea
SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, plans to invest 15 trillion won ($10.9 billion) over the next five years to build a...
Qualcomm, Meta sign deal for virtual reality chips
Meta Platforms has signed an agreement with chip-maker Qualcomm to source custom chipsets for its Quest virtual reality (VR) devices.
Engineering and product teams of both...