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China chipmaker SMIC to invest $2.35 bn in facilities in Shenzhen

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) will jointly invest in a $2.35 billion project with the government of Shenzhen to make 40,000 wafers per month in...
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Lenovo’s parent invests $237 mn in Chinese chipmaker Fullhan

Legend Holdings, the parent of the world’s biggest PC maker Lenovo, said it would buy a 15.9 percent stake in chipmaker Fullhan Microelectronics for...
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Qualcomm, HiSilicon, MediaTek capture top-three baseband revenue share

Strong demand for 5G fueled the baseband market to achieve 25 percent growth to $26.8 billion in 2020, Strategy Analytics report said. Qualcomm, HiSilicon, MediaTek, Samsung LSI and Intel captured the...
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Qualcomm struggles to supply chips to smartphone makers

Qualcomm is struggling to supply its processor chips used in smartphones and gadgets, as a chip shortage spreads across the electronics business, Reuters reported. Samsung...
Samsung Exynos

Samsung considers more sites for $17 bn chip plant in US

Samsung Electronics is considering two sites in Arizona and another one in New York in addition to Austin, Texas, for its $17 billion chip...
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GlobalFoundries to invest $1.4 bn to increase output at three units

GlobalFoundries will invest $1.4 billion this year to increase output at three manufacturing units in the United States, Singapore and Germany, as a global...
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US aims $37 bn in funding to supercharge chip manufacturing

United States President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would seek $37 billion in funding for legislation to supercharge chip manufacturing in the United...
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Joe Biden to sign executive order aimed at addressing chip shortage

United States President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at addressing a global semiconductor chip shortage, Reuters reported. The global semiconductor...
Sony Altair ALT1255 NB2 chipset

Sony launches Altair ALT1255 low-power NB2 chipset

Sony Semiconductor, a provider of cellular IoT chipsets, announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255, a new low-power NB2 chipset. The ALT1255 is 5G ready, designed...
SK Hynix chip investment in NAND

SK Hynix signs $4.3 bn deal with ASML to procure EUV scanners

SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, has agreed a 5-year procurement contract worth 4.8 trillion won or $4.34 billion with ASML Holding...
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Airtel taps Qualcomm’s Radio Access Network platform for 5G

India’s Bharti Airtel said on Tuesday it would collaborate with U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm for launching 5G services in the world’s second largest wireless market. The...
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Chipmaker Tower to invest extra $150 mn to boost capacity

Tower Semiconductor plans to invest an extra $150 million to boost production, the Israeli chipmaker said on Wednesday, as it forecast record revenues this...
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U.S. chip industry calls on Joe Biden administration to fund factories

Semiconductor Industry Association on Thursday sent a letter to US President Joe Biden urging him to provide “substantial funding for incentives for semiconductor manufacturing”...
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Qualcomm intros Snapdragon X65 5G modem supporting 10Gbps speed

Qualcomm has introduced Snapdragon X65 5G modem, its fourth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution, with support up to 10Gbps speeds on both standalone and non-standalone 5G...
China semiconductor industry

Leading semiconductor chip buyers in 2020

The latest Gartner report revealed that Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Lenovo, Dell, BBK Technologies, HP, Xiaomi, Hon Hai Precision Industry and HPE were the leading...
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Renesas to buy Dialog Semiconductor deal for $6 bn

Renesas Electronics has agreed to buy Dialog Semiconductor for 4.9 billion euros ($5.9 billion) in cash, boosting its position in low-power technology and connectivity...

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