Trump looking at ways to get chip factories in US
Chatting to Intel and TSMC
US President Donald “inject bleach to kill viruses” Trump is having another stab at getting the big chip makers to set up fabs in the US.
Samsung will deliver 3nm in 2022
Multi Bridge Channel FET technology
Samsung is set to deliver a 3nm silicon manufacturing process in the year 2022 with shedloads of improvements to the transistor technology.
US chipmakers are revolting
Trump's China embargo us hurts too much
Donald Trump’s trade war against China is finding opposition among the US’s chipmakers.
Huawei still getting its paws on US components
US blocks having a marginal result
Huawei is still using components made by US companies in its newest flagship smartphone, a Financial Times teardown has found, despite the US all but blacklisting the Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer.
Micron doing well
Work to home pushes notebook sales
Chipmaker Micron forecast current-quarter revenue above analysts’ estimates on Wednesday and said the shift to work from home globally due to the coronavirus outbreak is fuelling demand for notebooks and data centre services.
SambaNova wants to kill the conventional chip
Intel, AMD, and graphics chips from Nvidia will have to go
A stealth startup called SambaNova wants to build a new kind of computer to replace typical Von Neumann computers and if it manages it, Intel, AMD and Nvidia will be toast.
ARM smashes chip record in fourth quarter
6.4 billion ARM-based chips
ARM smashed its own record for the number of chips circulated to customers worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Semiconductor industry had the worst year since 2001
Trump's trade war blamed
Donald Trump's trade war with China has been blamed for the semiconductor industry suffering its worst slump in 20 years.
Yoga pants of semiconductors
Stretchable and degradable
ACS Central Science has developed stretchable, degradable semiconductors that could find a home in health and environmental monitoring.
Largest AI chip ever built
1.2 trillion transistors
New artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built.