Chip

TSMC has plans to establish a 28nm chip fab in Saxony, Germany, according to Bloomberg sources.

Samsung experienced year-over-year declines for most of its businesses.

A significant fire consumed 300 sq.m (3,230 sq.ft) of an under construction TSMC packaging and testing plant in Zhunan.

TrendForce sees NAND Flash pricing downturn to continue through 2Q23, with no prospect of turnaround until 4Q23.

Nvidia AutoDMP open source GPU accelerated AI chip design software arrives to rapidly optimize chip designs for cost, speed, and power efficiency.

Dell will start to remove Chinese ICs from products starting in 2025, says a new report, moving steadily to cut all Chinese manufacturing from US-sold products by 2027.

Intel has requested an additional $5 billion for its Germany fab as inflation drives the cost of leading-edge fabs even higher.

AMD execs will enjoy substantial bonuses, but its business structure is far less affected by semiconductor manufacturing cycles than Intel's.

While x86 processor sales trends have seen their worst inflexion in history, a lot of the blame here may be in inventory adjustments, not simply the cooling of demand.

Synopsys' DSO.ai automation tool has hit 100 commercial tape-outs, optimizing layouts for new chips and freeing up human engineers to innovate.