Chipmakers

Cloud and data centres, the chip industry's strongest sector, may be its next problem: Signs are showing growth could slow in what has been a pillar during the COVID era as consumers signed up for cloud-based entertainment and companies retooled their offices.Analysts say the cloud market has rarely had to weather a prolonged economic downturn since it rose to prominence in the last decade as more businesses adopted the technology, making it harder to predict if it's recession proof or it will be hit in an economic…

Cloud and data centers, the chip industry's strongest sector, may be its next problem: Signs are showing growth could slow in what has been a pillar during the Covid era as consumers signed up for cloud-based entertainment and companies retooled their offices. Analysts say the cloud market has rarely had to weather a prolonged economic downturn since it rose to prominence in the last decade as more businesses adopted the technology, making it harder to predict if it's recession proof or it will be hit in an economic…

A report has said demand for DRAM is expected to grow at a historically low level next year, a report has said, dimming the outlook for South Korean chipmakers, heavily dependent on memory chip sales for their bottom line.Industry research firm TrendForce forecast DRAM market demand growth will amount to only 8.3 percent next year, below 10 percent for the first time in history.TrendForce said supply is likely to grow by about 14 percent, suggesting the DRAM market could be "severely oversupplied" and "prices will…

President Joe Biden next Tuesday will sign a bill to subsidise the US semiconductor industry and boost efforts to make the United States more competitive with China, the White House recently said. The legislation aims to alleviate a persistent shortage that has affected everything from cars, weapons, washing machines and video games. Thousands of cars and trucks remain parked in southeast Michigan awaiting chips as the shortage continues to impact automakers. A rare major foray into US industrial policy, the bill provides…

The US President, Joe Biden, will sign a bill on August 9 to subsidize the US semiconductor industry and boost efforts to make the United States more competitive with China, the White House said. The legislation aims to alleviate a persistent shortage that has affected everything from cars, weapons, washing machines and video games. Thousands of cars and trucks remain parked in southeast Michigan awaiting chips as the shortage continues to impact automakers. A rare major foray into US industrial policy, the bill provides…

Credit: ktsdesign/Shutterstock A handful of chipmakers, including Micron and AMD, reportedly have signalled falling demand as soaring inflation squeezes spending, even though it is easing a two-year global semiconductor shortage that has hit production of everything from cars to smartphones. Reuters reported chip shares worldwide tumbled last Friday after memory chip maker Micron Technology forecast on…

A handful of chipmakers including Micron and AMD have signaled waning demand as red-hot inflation squeezes consumer and corporate spending, while easing a two-year global semiconductor shortage that was exacerbated by supply-chain disruptions. Micron Technology Inc, a maker of memory chips, forecast on Thursday much worse-than-expected revenue for the current quarter and said the market had "weakened considerably in a very short period of time." Chip stocks fell on Friday including those of Taiwan's TSMC and MediaTek,…

Nikkei Asia: Chipmakers including TSMC embark on a $120B investment spree across Taiwan, with 20 new fabs ready or in the works, dwarfing planned investments in US and Japan — 20 new fabs ready or in pipeline, dwarfing planned investments in U.S. and Japan — TAIPEI — Taiwan's chipmakers have launched … Nikkei Asia: Chipmakers including TSMC embark on a $120B investment spree across Taiwan, with 20 new fabs ready or in the works, dwarfing planned investments in US…

SAN FRANCISCO: Chips for chipmaking machines are one of the things in short supply amid chip shortage constraints, say executives from Intel and Apple chipmaker TSMC.Buying new chipmaking machines was never a speedy process, given their complexity and delicacy, but lead times before the pandemic were measured in months.While many commentators say they expect the chip shortage to ease by the end of this year, the WSJ reports chipmaking companies describing that as an overly optimistic view.What began as a pandemic-era…

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics' Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Patrick P Gelsinger, chief executive of chip-maker Intel in Seoul and discussed cooperation in the chip sector, Samsung officials said.At the meeting, the leaders of the world's two largest chipmakers explored ways to collaborate in areas ranging from the next-generation memory chips, fabless logic chips and foundries to PCs and mobile, according to Samsung.Samsung and Intel have continued their partnership, working on the compatibility between Samsung's…