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Renesas Electronics said it would spend JPY90 billion to reopen its Kofu Factory in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, closed in October 2014, as a 300mm wafer fab capable of manufacturing power semiconductors. Operations would start in 2024. Once at full production, the Kofu factory will double the supplier’s total production capacity of power semiconductors. The factory previously operated both 150mm and 200mm wafer fabrication lines.…

Earlier this week, Google confirmed what we’ve suspected for a long time: the Google Pixel Watch is coming later this fall. And while we learned some details, the reveal was more of a teaser than a full-blown announcement. Some of that was to be expected, and of course, the next few months will be full of speculation about what the final form of the Pixel Watch will be. But one thing Google has to get right is the chip inside. It’s clear, from the Pixel Watch’s design to the company’s massive undertaking in retooling…

Yesterday's a report indicated that TSMC was in talks with clients about a 5% – 9% increase in 2023, today a Bloomberg story signals that Samsung Foundry is also looking to increase its prices. Samsung Foundry is negotiating a rather massive 15% – 20% price hike with its customers, the report says. The increase is projected to take place in the second half of 2022 and will vary depending on the manufacturing technology. Chips made on legacy processes will get a higher price hike, whereas devices made using advanced and…

Samsung Electronics is in talks with clients about hiking prices for chip contract manufacturing by up to 20 percent this year, Bloomberg reported on Friday.The move, expected to be applied from the second half of this year, is part of an industry-wide push to raise prices to cover rising materials and logistics costs, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter.Contract-based chip prices are likely to rise around 15 percent to 20 percent, depending upon the level of sophistication, with chips produced on…

Honda expects net profit to remain steady in the current financial year. Japanese auto giant Honda said Friday net profit rose 7.6 percent in the financial year to March, benefiting from strong motorbike sales and a weaker yen. The company also expects net profit to remain steady in the current…

Samsung said on Thursday it expects component shortages to affect chip demand from some customers in the current quarter, after reporting its highest quarterly profit in three years. The warning comes as producers of goods from televisions to cars have faced a host of supply chain issues ranging from a shortage of logic chip parts, manpower shortages, logistics snarls, and delays at parts plants due to power cuts in China."A longer-than-expected component supply issue may need to be monitored due to potential impacts" on…

Nigerian stocks advanced 0.15 per cent on Thursday as investors continued to sustain interest in shares, with consumer goods equities being the most preferred of all the sectors. Blue chip stocks including cement-maker WAPCO, Presco, Okomu Oil and Flour Mills drove the climb in a session during which trade volume was up by 2 per cent. NGX 30, the index that tracks the top thirty stocks in terms of liquidity and market capitalisation, surged to its highest point ever, advancing 0.51 per…

AMD’s job listing says, “We are currently looking for a System-on-Chip Verification Engineer who will be part of a team working on next generation of a complex SOC design. The successful candidate will play a key role in SOC verification performing the following duties for functional, power, and performance aspects with simulation and hardware emulation environment.” The job listing makes it clear that AMD is working on Zen 3 architecture-based chips for consoles like PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The new chips can be used for…

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Today's best AMD Ryzen 7 5700X dealsThe eight-core 16-thread $299 AMD Ryzen 7 5700X comes to market as a slightly modified yet lower-cost version of its predecessor, the $335 Ryzen 7 5800X, but it offers nearly the same gaming and application performance after a bit of no-hassle tuning. The 5700X debuts as part of AMD's newest line of seven Ryzen 5000 models that are designed to shore up the company's rankings in CPU benchmarks and retake its position on the Best CPUs for gaming list. That's…

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