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After the generative artificial intelligence (AI) space, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly setting his sights on a new frontier: the semiconductor industry. According to a Wall Street Journal report published on Thursday, Altman is engaged in conversations with investors, including those from the United Arab Emirates, to secure trillions in funding aimed at bolstering global production of chips specifically designed for AI technology.This initiative could require raising as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion, as per the…

Computer chip maker Intel has no plans to set up a semiconductor plant or any type of manufacturing unit in the country at present, the company's India business head Santhosh Viswanathan said on Friday. Viswanathan, vice president and managing director of Intel, India region, said the company continues to engage in India's electronic manufacturing sector as the country has potential to create a balanced supply chain that the world needs. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The White House on Friday touted the US government's plan to spend $11 billion on semiconductor-related research and development and said it was launching the $5 billion National Semiconductor Technology Center.Congress in August 2022 approved the landmark Chips and Science Act. The law provides $52.7 billion, including $39 billion in subsidies for semiconductor production and $11 billion research and development. It also creates a 25% investment tax credit for building chip plants, estimated to be worth $24…

A court in Germany has issued an injunction against the sale of some of Intel's chips, in a patent dispute between the tech giant and another US company that filed the complaint.The regional court in Dusseldorf ruled in favour of California-based R2 Semiconductor in a case involving voltage regulators, a court spokesperson said, confirming an earlier report in the Financial Times.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIndian…

The government has received four proposals for setting up semiconductor manufacturing plants and 13 for chip assemblies unit, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. The proposals are in addition to a Rs 22,516-crore chip assembly plant being set up by US-based memory chip maker Micron, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha."Four proposals have been received for setting up semiconductor fabs and additional 13 proposals have been received for setting up…

A team of physicists in Germany managed to create a time crystal that demonstrably lasts 40 minutes—10 million times longer than other known crystals—and could persist for even longer.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Ordinary crystals, by which I mean crystals in macro-scale space, are solids whose atoms are arranged in a highly organized pattern. Diamonds, snowflakes, and table salts are all crystalline. Time crystals are structures whose lowest-energy states have highly ordered patterns (periodicity) in space and…

But this approach to chipmaking poses a bigger challenge for another sector of the semiconductor industry: packaging, which is the process that assembles multiple components of a chip and tests the finished device’s performance. Making sure multiple chiplets can work together requires more sophisticated packaging techniques than those involved in a traditional single-piece chip. The technology used in this process is called advanced packaging.  This is an easier lift for China. Today, Chinese companies are already…

"As for this year's outlook, I think it might be slightly better than last year," Liu told reporters on the sidelines of the company's annual employee party in Taipei.Taiwan's Foxconn, Apple's biggest iPhone assembler and the world's largest contract electronics maker, expects its business this year to be "slightly better" than last year but is facing a shortage of chips for AI servers. "We did pretty well last year, although we had a rather large write off in the first…

A breakthrough in nanocavity technology has been achieved by researchers, creating a III-V semiconductor nanocavity with unprecedented light confinement. This development is set to transform photonic devices, improving communication and computing efficiency. Credit: SciTechDaily.comNew nanocavities pave the way for enhanced nanoscale lasers and LEDs that could enable faster data transmission using smaller, more energy-efficient devices.As we transition to a new era in computing, there is a need for new devices that…

Last week, it was revealed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited South Korea to meet executives from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix for a possible alliance for AI chips. It has now been revealed that he visited Samsung's semiconductor chip plant in the country, and it is possible that OpenAI will develop its own chips for AI processing. OpenAI could design in-house AI processing chips with help of Samsung and SK Hynix It is being reported by ETNews that Sam Altman arrived in South Korea on January 26 and then toured…