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At the Q2 earnings call, TSMC’s CEO announced: “N3E will further extend our N3 family with enhanced performance, power and yield. We observed a high level of customer engagement at N3E, and volume production is scheduled for around one year after N3.” Later this year, Qualcomm is hosting its 2022 Snapdragon Summit between November 15th – November 17th, where we’ll likely see the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s debut. This latest Snapdragon chip won’t be manufactured on a 3nm process and will settle with a 4nm instead, which…

Qualcomm is considering a return to the server market with a new chip in a bid to decrease its reliance on smartphones, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with its plan. Shares of Qualcomm rose nearly 3 percent in afternoon trading. The chipmaker is seeking customers for a product stemming from its purchase of Nuvia, the report said, adding that Amazon.com's cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has agreed to take a look at Qualcomm's offerings.Last year, the chipmaker acquired Nuvia, a chip…

Just like other makers of commodity 3D NAND, Yangtze Memory has been evolving from a manufacturer of flash memory into a vertically integrated producer of solid-state storage solutions. The company started with simplistic SATA SSDs roughly two years ago, then evolved to more advanced PCIe drives, and now it is time for YMTC to enter the most lucrative 3D NAND market — enterprise storage.YMTC's first enterprise-grade product is the PE310 SSD that comes in a 2.5-inch U.2 form factor featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface, using…

Taiwan's national security officials want to persuade Apple's supplier Foxconn to unwind an $800 million (roughly Rs. 6,360 crore) investment in Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.The deal will definitely not go through, the report said, citing a senior Taiwanese government official involved in national security issues.Taiwan, the world's largest contract electronics maker, has become increasingly cautious about China's ambition to boost its semiconductor sector. It has proposed…

Taiwan's national security officials want to persuade Apple Inc's supplier Foxconn to unwind an $800 million investment in Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, the Financial Times reported. The deal will definitely not go through, the report said, citing a senior Taiwanese government official involved in national security issues. Taiwan, the world's largest contract electronics maker, has become increasingly cautious about China's ambition to boost its semiconductor sector. It has proposed new laws to prevent what it…

Memory-chip maker Micron Technology cut its current-quarter revenue forecast and warned of a negative free cash flow in the following quarter as demand for chips used in personal computers and smartphones continues to drop. Fourth-quarter revenue may come in at or below the low end of its prior forecast, the company said, sending its shares down about 5 percent in premarket trading. Its earlier estimate of $7.2 billion, plus or minus $400 million, missed Wall Street targets in June. Micron, which last reported negative…

Computer chip maker Analog Devices is buying Maxim Integrated in an all-stock deal that will create a company worth about $68 billion (roughly Rs. 5.12 lakh crores), and strengthens its position in the analog semiconductor sector.The $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1.5 lakh crores) acquisition would also give Analog a more defined role in the development technology for 5G networks and self-piloted vehicles.Maxim stockholders will receive 0.630 of a share of Analog common stock for each share of Maxim common stock they hold at…

Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said that it sees continued growth for the industry into next year, even as soaring inflation and recession fears cool demand for consumer electronics. "After two very strong years in the semi market-we call it a supercycle-and hitting the recent turbulence and disruption from the market, and after this rising macro uncertainty, higher inflationary cost issues, we still foresee the foundry industry growing in 2023," co-president Jason Wang told an earnings call. "It…

A Huawei executive says that recent US sanctions against the company have caused a shortage of computer chips for the company, hurting the growth of its smartphone business.Richard Yu, president of Huawei's consumer business, said at a company conference for developers on Thursday that the company has still managed to gain a 51 percent market share in the Chinese smartphone industry.The US has imposed various sanctions on Huawei, citing national security concerns. The latest, ordered in August, restrict foreign…

The United States has imposed restrictions on exports to China's biggest chip maker SMIC after concluding there is an "unacceptable risk" equipment supplied to it could be used for military purposes.Suppliers of certain equipment to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation will now have to apply for individual export licenses, according to a letter from the Commerce Department dated Friday and seen by Reuters.The latest move marks a shift in US policy from earlier this year, when applicants seeking “military…