Qualcomm Technologies is to integrate its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Thread combo system-on-a-chip (SoC), which features on-board compute processing for low-power AI workloads on industrial IoT applications, into STMicroelectronics’ STM32 family of microcontrollers (MCUs). The deal will expand to see other cellular IoT SoCs integrated, as well, and...
Direct CHIPS funding would be in addition to $6-$8 billion in tax credit
Texas Instruments has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to receive up to $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding that will support semiconductor manufacturing in Texas...
The federal CHIPS for America program has released info about a new funding round of up to $1.6 billion, focused on bolstering advanced semiconductor packaging manufacturing in the United States.
The funding will be focused in five related research and development areas: Equipment, tools, processes...
The funding is part of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, which was passed in 2022
The U.S. Biden-Harris administration is seeking proposals from eligible applicants for the development, validation and use of digital twins for semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, assembly and test processes. In...
The order has dealt a blow to U.S. semiconductor firms Intel and AMD
According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have told Chinese telecom operators that they must remove foreign chips from their networks by 2027.
The GSMA’s Mobile...
Intel says that the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator will deliver better performance than NVIDIA's H100 — at a fraction of the cost
At Intel Vision 2024, the company detailed its broad enterprise AI strategy that emphasizes open, scalable systems that work across all AI segments....
Projects in Vermont and New York include factory refurbishment
The Biden administration has announced $1.5 billion in potential funding to support multiple semiconductor manufacturing projects in New York and Vermont.
The Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundries have signed a non-binding agreement of terms for the...
Chip design company NXP Semiconductors has released two new lines of low-cost and low-power microcontroller units (MCUs) to support intelligent edge applications in industrial and industrial IoT gadgetry, plus in sundry smart-home and smart-city devices. The MCX A14x and A15x are the first commercially-available...
Broadcom will reportedly cut 1,267 employees at VMware’s Palo Alto office
Broadcom will reportedly cut employees at VMware’s Palo Alto office, following the completion of the $61 billion acquisition of the software player company, which finally closed last month after facing various regulatory hurdles.
According...
Google recently invested $2 billion in Anthropic
San Francisco-based generative AI startup Anthropic has revealed that it will be one of the first companies to deploy new AI chips from Google. The announcement comes just a few weeks after Google confirmed a $2 billion investment...
The new set of chip restrictions hitting China are designed to close loopholes in existing regulations
The U.S. Department of Commerce has escalated its efforts to restrict the sale of advanced chips to China after loopholes in last year’s export restrictions were discovered. This time, the...
Qualcomm will layoff 1,258 workers in San Diego and Santa Clara, beginning in December
Pointing to the ongoing poor sales performance of its phone chips, Qualcomm notified the California Employment Development Department that it plans to cut 1,258 positions in San Diego and Santa Clara,...
NTT exec: 'We used to say software is eating hardware; I think AI will eat software'
This week, during Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, NTT and Qualcomm announced a partnership focused on bolstering the 5G device ecosystem to accelerate the global private 5G market, which...
The Qualcomm R&D facility in Shanghai, China opened in 2010 and employs nearly 400 staff
While Qualcomm has denied rumors that it plans to shut its Shanghai R&D facility or enact “large-scale” layoffs in China, it did reveal that will reduce the facility’s staff, citing...
Huawei grows with Mate 60 Pro smartphone, 5G chips and HarmonyOS
As the old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. The United States tried to stop China from monitoring US communications by blocking Huawei from America wireless networks and...
Intel acquired IMS company in 2015
Intel has agreed to sell a 10% stake in its IMS Nanofabrication business to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) for roughly $4.3 billion. The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, leaves Intel as the...
According to Gartner, AI chip revenue will continue growing to $119.4 billion in 2027
Gartner this week revealed findings that suggest potential revenue from semiconductors designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) workloads will hit $53.4 billion this year — an increase of 20.9% from 2022...
The U.K. government is in discussions with AMD, Intel and Nvidia about securing AI components to power a $127.6 million research project
According to reports, the U.K. government is in discussions with AMD, Intel and Nvidia about securing artificial intelligence (AI) components to power a...
Intel announced the deal in February 2022 and hoped it would help scale its foundry services
Intel has terminated the $5.4 billion deal to acquire Israel-based chip company Tower Semiconductor, citing regulatory hurdles. The deal, announced in February 2022, was intended to help scale Intel’s...
Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Electronics has agreed a deal to buy France-based cellular IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications for $249 million. The deal is expected to close “by the first quarter” of next year (2024), subject to its formal approval by the French firm’s works...
Heavyweights in the semiconductor industry have joined together to create a new company to accelerate production of products based on the new open-source RISC-V (RISC-five; reduced instruction set computer-V) architecture. Robert Bosch, Infineon Technologies, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductor, and Qualcomm Technologies will jointly invest...
The investment in the EU semiconductor market includes both public and private funds
The European Union (EU) this week approved a massive semiconductor and communication technologies project that will use roughly €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in state funds. The public investment encouraged another €13.7 billions ($14.7...
New York headquartered GlobalFoundries and Switzerland-headquartered STMicroelectronics (STMicro) have confirmed a deal to build a jointly-operated semiconductor manufacturing facility in Crolles, in France, at a total project cost of €7.5 billion – of which around €3 billion will reportedly be provided by the French...
Micron failed to pass a cybersecurity review, says the Cyberspace Administration of China
Tensions between China and the U.S. escalated over the weekend when the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced its decision to ban Idaho-based memory chipmaker Micron from selling to Chinese companies.
According...
