ChipMaking

Samsung Foundry is among the world's biggest semiconductor chip makers. It frequently upgrades to newer and more advanced chip-making equipment. Usually, the companies making chips sell older equipment once they are phased out from their lineups, but Samsung and SK Hynix have stopped selling their older equipment, fearing backlash from the US. Older chip-making equipment from Samsung and SK Hynix could end up with Chinese firms According to a new report from Financial Times, Samsung and SK Hynix have stopped selling…

Intel also missed out on being the leader in chips used in machine learning projects. Rival Nvidia, which mints chips with TSMC, became the AI industry’s workhorse and has seen its business soar. But Gelsinger argues that with AI still growing fast and millions of AI chips expected to be needed, Intel can become a major player. Generative AI “is transforming everything about computing,” he said at the company event in Santa Clara, California, Wednesday. “Through our foundry I want to manufacture every AI chip in the…

Bloomberg: Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking — The world's largest memory maker sold about 1.58 million shares, or 0.4%, of ASML, according to its most recent quarterly financial report filed to regulators. Bloomberg: Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of…

Taiwan-based TSMC is the leading contract chip manufacturer in the world. It takes up a major chunk of the very lucrative chipmaking market. Samsung has been trying hard to catch up to its rival but has been finding it difficult, particularly with TSMC's lead on the 3nm process. Samsung is now laser-focused on beating TSMC to the 2nm process, which will be used to make the next generation of advanced chips. The company is heavily investing in this goal and aims to achieve it in the near future. Samsung is all in on…

Apple plans to settle a lawsuit that accused tech startup Rivos of stealing its trade secrets related to computer-chip technology, according to a joint court filing on Friday in California federal court.The companies told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that they had "signed an agreement that potentially settles the case," and that the agreement allows Apple to examine Rivos' systems and recover any confidential information.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

China is aiming to create next-generation smartphone chips using new fabrication technologies as early as this year, according to a report from the Financial Times. Although the U.S. has tried to slow down China’s chipmaking efforts, China is exceeding expectations in chipmaking growth. That is in part due to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) and Huawei working together to make next-gen processors. While the companies have been able to produce processors using the 7nm process, getting past that hurdle…

Canon is planning to make some major disruptions in chipmaking or lithography machines and become more competitive in semiconductor manufacturing, providing a potentially cost-effective alternative to ASML's light-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology…

Foxconn and HCL's joint venture to set up a chipmaking plant in India, in all likelihood in Tamil Nadu or Telangana. While Karnataka was also considered, insiders suggest that the JV is leaning towards Tamil Nadu or Telangana due to more attractive incentives offered by these states…

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 4:10 am ETThe Netherlands has blocked chip-equipment manufacturer ASML’s exports to China of some lithography systems, which are essential to making advanced microprocessors, in a partial license revocation following U.S. export restrictions.The Netherlands-based company said Monday that the Dutch government recently partially revoked an export license for shipping the NXT:2050i and NXT:2100i lithography systems to China in 2023.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The US was able to convince the Netherlands to impose trade restrictions on Dutch chipmaking companies from dealing with China for the latest generation of lithography machines. However, now, the US wants to block even older technological equipment…