Chipmakers talking about price hikes
Up by 20 per cent
Chipmakers are talking about jacking the price of chips up by more than 20 per cent.
Bell sues Micron over layering process
Hoping to make a ding in Micron profits
Bell Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against computer chipmaker Micron Technology which claims it nicked its layering process for fabricating semiconductor devices.
Micron warns of component shortages
Prices will rise
Chipmaker Micron Technology warned that while production will not drop due to component shortages driven by the Ukraine crisis, costs are expected to rise.
BE Semiconductor predicts rise in first-quarter revenues
Expects chipmakers to boost investments
BE Semiconductor has been consulting its Tarot cards and predicts rise in first-quarter revenues as leading chipmakers' plans to boost investments.
Micron begins shipping 176-layer QLC NAND SSD
2400 SSD Billed as the most advanced NAND architecture
Micron has started volume shipments of the world's first 176-layer QLC NAND SSD.
Infineon warns supply issues will continue until Christmas
Bottlenecks
The semiconductor industry's struggle to keep up with incoming orders looks set to continue as supply bottlenecks may last until the end of 2022, a member of German chipmaker Infineon's management board told the Handelsblatt newspaper.
Supply issues blight DDR5
The problem is the non-memory components.
During a recent earnings call to discuss its quarterly earnings, Micron explained that the reason DDR5 demand is "significantly exceeding supply" is because suppliers are having a rough time sourcing non-memory component.
Micron and UMC bury the hatchet
Smoking the peace pipe
US chipmaker Micron and Taiwanese peer UMC have withdrawn complaints against each other following a years long legal dispute over intellectual property (IP).
Micron builds a new Hiroshima chip factory
More bang for DRAM
US memory chip maker Micron will build a new factory at its Japanese production site in Hiroshima at a cost of $7 billion.
Micron warns memory chips will dip
Shortages in other places
Micron forecast current quarter revenue below analysts' expectations and warned that shipments for its memory chips were set to dip in the near term as its customers making personal computers face shortages of other parts.