Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

PR Newswire -- Chris Stansbury, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), will present at the UBS Global TMT Conference on December 6. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 1:20 p.m. ET. A live webcast link to the...

Media -- Electronics360 - Intel Corp. has become a landowner in Magdeburg, Germany, the location of its planned European semiconductor fab.

Media -- SemiMedia - According to the latest report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), 2022 will be a year of historic significance for the semiconductor industry, but the industry continues to face major challenges....

Media -- SemiMedia - According to reports, Micron Technology has started mass production of the most cutting-edge DRAM at its Hiroshima factory in Japan on November 16.



The Hiroshima factory was acquired by Micron when it acquired...

Media -- Evertiq - Following a record run, the semiconductor market has cooled down and consumer confidence has waned resulting in a historic drop. But how does this affect the ranking of the top 10 semiconductor companies?

Media -- DIGITIMES - Rohm Semiconductor will be mass-producing SiC power semiconductors starting in December 2022, mainly for inverter application. It makes power consumption more efficient and can add around 10% of additional mileage when equipped on EVs.

Media -- DIGITIMES - LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against two fellow LED makers in Taiwan.

Media -- DIGITIMES - China foundry leader Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) recently revealed that a monthly capacity of 340,000 12-inch wafers would be generated when its new fabs come online.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Worldwide semiconductor sales are forecast to drop 5% in 2023 after hitting a record high in 2022, according to IC Insights.

TMCnet -- Sony Semiconductor Israel's ALT1350 chipset is designed to support the market needs of utilities, vehicles, tracking devices, smart cities, connected health and other verticals.

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Ensuring the highest possible level of security in highly integrated programmable devices is a persistent concern, given the exponential growth of FPGA applications in the data center, aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial,...

Aspencore -- EETimes - HBM (High-Bandwidth Memory) is a high-value-added DRAM product that provides high bandwidth and is used in computing systems that require high performance, such as supercomputers and AI accelerators. The development of such computing technologies...

Media -- CNBC - Business - Semiconductor chip suppliers are among companies starting to send more cargo to trucks ahead of a potential freight railroad strike.

Think -- Gartner - Global semiconductor revenue is projected to decline 3.6% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. In 2022, the market is on pace to grow 4% and total $618 billion.

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - STMicroelectronics achieves EMVCo certification for biometric-payment platform, cutting time-to-market for card issuers

Electronics -- Texas Instruments Newsroom - Engineers can use new ADCs and power semiconductors to increase thermal efficiency and reduce system size and weight while meeting radiation and reliability requirements

Electronics -- Infineon - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and TSMC today announced the companies are preparing to introduce TSMC's Resistive RAM (RRAM) Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technology into Infineon's next...

Media -- Evertiq - It would be an understatement to say that the semiconductor market has experienced an exceptional run of sequential revenue growth over the past years. But the party very much seems to be over.

Media -- SemiMedia - According to IC Insights' latest report, weak economic conditions and high inflation have slowed global demand for personal computers, mainstream smartphones and other consumer electronics, according to a new report...

Media -- Evertiq - The DRAM market often enjoys robust sales in the second half of the year when system makers place orders for memory to use in their new generation of products that they plan to release for the year-end holiday season. That scenario has not panned...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The tumultuous year of 2022 triggered the correction of the semiconductor industry inventory, and firms are responding to the short-term downcycle, but there are trends developing in the background that are worth monitoring.

Media -- DIGITIMES - According to official data, China's overall imports of equipment for semiconductor manufacturing declined by nearly 30%, while IC-making equipment's growth remains flat.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Renesas and On Semiconductor (Onsemi) have started scaling back backend orders for their automotive chips in the fourth quarter of 2022, which may indicate the easing of automotive chip shortages, according to industry sources.

Enterprise -- The Register - Just look at the 'state' of them, says UK semiconductor designer, but says float will still happen

The troubled public offering of Brit chip designer Arm looks set to be delayed until sometime next year, amid fears that worsening economic...

Aspencore -- EDN - Randhir Thakur, senior VP and president of Intel Foundry Services (IFS), is leaving after a rollercoaster ride to turn Intel into a world-class systems foundry. While at the helm of Intel's IDM 2.0 drive, he recently expressed hope that IFS will...

Aspencore -- EPS News - The DRAM market often enjoys robust sales in the second half of the year when system makers place orders for memory to use in their new generation of products that they plan to release for the year-end holiday season, according to IC Insights....

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - ASML Supervisory Board changes announced

Media -- Evertiq - The semiconductor manufacturer is planning to reduce its workforce as the company looks to navigate itself through a period of weaker demand and increased costs.

Media -- SemiMedia - Nov. 23, 2022 /SemiMedia/ -- According to the supply chain, AMD recently issued a price increase notice, saying that it will increase the price of some of its products.



AMD stated in the notice that due to the increase in supply chain investment...

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC reportedly has plans to build a 3nm fab in the US, adjacent to its 5nm fab under construction in Arizona, and also plans to set up a fab in Germany focusing on 28 nm automotive chips to serve local clients, apparently indicating that...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The global DRAM market is forecast to reach US$29.3 billion in the second half of 2022, down 40% from US$49 billion in the first half of the year, according to IC Insights. Sales for all of 2022 will register an 18% on-year fall.

Enterprise -- The Register - There's gold in them there chip mountains? World's sixth richest man seems to think so

Warren Buffett, the sixth richest man on the planet and historically a tech averse stock market gambler, has bought around $5 billion worth of Taiwan...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Electronics component inventories are loosening up, but OEMs are still struggling to secure devices essential to their product designs. Moreover, engineering teams are being asked to consider component sourcing when developing the next generation...

Enterprise -- The Register - 2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant

Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 million) into a new semiconductor company amid plans to jump-start next generation advanced chip production with the help...

Enterprise -- The Register - Foundries folk pity the fool who writes off whole of 2023, though analyst says GF crew is 'optimistic'

Semiconductor manufacturing biz GlobalFoundries expects weakening chip demand to bottom out in the first half of 2023, as it announced...

Enterprise -- The Register - America's Chip Act looking a bit less like 'expensive exercise in futility'

Taiwan's chipmaking giant TSMC is said to be preparing to build another semiconductor fabrication plant in Arizona, alongside the facility it completed this summer,...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - The next few years could be a good period for fabless semiconductor companies, especially with the expected growth in fab capacity meaning fabs will need to fill their production lines. That's the view of seasoned electronics industry...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Over its 60-year history, the IC industry is well known for its cyclical behavior. Looking back to the mid-1970s, there hasn't been a period where the IC market declined for more than three quarters in a row, according to IC Insights. Following...

Media -- Evertiq - Ashlie Wallace will lead GlobalFoundries' global supply chain operations, including logistics, supply planning, sourcing, and procurement. She will step into her new role on November 28, 2022.

Media -- Evertiq - Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that hundreds of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs), including over 50 different part numbers, are onboard the Artemis...

Media -- DIGITIMES - While many countries have welcomed fab investments from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), it is impossible for the foundry to set up fabs in many countries, according to TSMC founder Morris Chang at a press conference at Taiwan's...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) has named semiconductor veteran Chiang Shang-yi as its semiconductor strategy officer.

Media -- DIGITIMES - EV maker Tesla is rumored to have placed a massive order with TSMC to manufacture its next-generation Full Self-Driving (FSD) chips, potentially making it one of the Taiwan-based foundry's largest customers, according to various reports citing...

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC has seen its sale price per wafer rise exponentially starting from sub-10nm process nodes, with wafer prices for 3nm topping US$20,000, according to industry sources.

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - It has now been over a month since the U.S. Commerce Department issued new rules that clamped down on the export of certain advanced chips-which have military or AI applications-to Chinese customers.China has yet to respond-but Beijing...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - As with many first-of-a-kind devices, the Texas Instruments (TI) TMS0100 calculator chip family was a narrowly defined microcontroller, mostly good for making calculators. However, the first chip in the TMS0100 family,...

Media -- Evertiq - The fabless semiconductor company has raised USD 19m in Series B funding. The investment will enable Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) to begin mass production of its range of GaN transistors for power applications.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) founder Morris Chang, at the press conference on November 21 at the Office of the President Taiwan, confirmed that the foundry's most advanced 3nm node technology will also go to the US after...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Benchmark Electronics is supporting the semiconductor industry on a global scale following a design and manufacturing partnership with Yield Engineering Systems

Benchmark Electronics is partnering with Yield Engineering Systems...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Apple has quietly suspended plans to purchase 128-layer NAND flash from Chinese supplier Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) for iPhones targeting the China market, and reportedly will have Samsung Electronics as the alternative supplier starting...