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Foundries face order cancellations as consumer spending slows
Foundries face order cancellations as consumer spending slows
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Foundries have seen a wave of order cancellations, mainly behind the leading edge of production, and the chip manufacturing capacity…
US seeks to expand ban on ASML’s China sales
US seeks to expand ban on ASML’s China sales
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The US government is applying pressure on the Netherlands to stop ASML Holding NV from selling deep-ultraviolet lithography equipment to…
Newport chip foundry is still possible, Nexperia’s Versluijs tells MPs
Newport chip foundry is still possible, Nexperia’s Versluijs tells MPs
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Toni Versluijs, UK country manager at Nexperia, has told UK members of parliament that his company’s offer to support a…
Going down: Annual chip market growth continued to soften in May
Going down: Annual chip market growth continued to soften in May
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Recent trends in the global chip market continued in May with the Americas region maintaining strong growth while Chinese market…

Nexperia executive to give evidence to UK government
Nexperia executive to give evidence to UK government
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Toni Versluijs, country manager at Nexperia UK, will give oral evidence to Members of Parliament about the domestic semiconductor sector on Tuesday July 5 in the morning. Versluijs, who is…
Sondrel keeps up with the Joneses
Sondrel keeps up with the Joneses
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Former European TSMC executive Gareth Jones has joined chip design services company Sondrel Ltd. to head up its turnkey ASIC services business. Jones was previously director of marketing for the…
Samsung starts 3nm chip production ahead of TSMC.
Samsung starts 3nm chip production ahead of TSMC.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced it has started production of its 3nm process using a nanosheet gate-all-around (GAA) architecture. The market leader in foundry chip production, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing…
EnSilica chassis control ASIC enters mass production
EnSilica chassis control ASIC enters mass production
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UK-based mixed signal ASIC expert EnSilica has developed a custom chassis-control ASIC, which has entered mass production, and will appear in vehicles later this year.
Flex Logix, Ceva announce DSP-FPGA in support of multiple ISAs
Flex Logix, Ceva announce DSP-FPGA in support of multiple ISAs
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Flex Logix, a licensor of FPGA fabric, and Ceva Inc., a licensor of DSP technology, have a silicon implementation of the EFLX embedded FPGA connected to a CEVA-X2 DSP instruction…
Chip market falls in 1Q22
Chip market falls in 1Q22
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The semiconductor market declined sequentially in 1Q22 but not by as much as normal seasonality would have dictated, according to market analysis firm Omdia. The market declined sequentially by 0.03…
Chip market went flat in 1Q22
Chip market went flat in 1Q22
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The semiconductor market declined sequentially in 1Q22 but not by as much as normal seasonality would have dictated, according to market analysis firm Omdia. The market declined sequentially by 0.03…
Stacked CMOS could overcome Forksheet limitations, says IMEC
Stacked CMOS could overcome Forksheet limitations, says IMEC
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Research institute IMEC has proposed how Complementary FETs (CFETs) with vertically stacked n- and p-type transistors could overcome limitations with Forksheet refinements to nanosheet FinFETs. IMEC first discussed the Nanosheet,…
Weakening chip market forces another forecast downgrade
Weakening chip market forces another forecast downgrade
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The weakening of the semiconductor market, due to inflation, Covid-related shutdowns in China, lingering supply-chain issues and the war in Ukraine has forced a downgrade at market research firm Semiconductor…
ST looks at joint European wafer fab with GlobalFoundries
ST looks at joint European wafer fab with GlobalFoundries
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European chip maker ST Microelectronics is reported to be in talks with Globalfoundries on building a joint wafer fab in France. The two companies want to take advantage of the…
Globalfoundries, ST mull joint European wafer fab – report
Globalfoundries, ST mull joint European wafer fab – report
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Leading chip manufacturers, Globalfoundries Inc. and STMicroelectronics NV are in discussions about building a joint wafer fab in France, according to a Bloomberg report. The two companies want to take…
Samsung renews interest in NXP takeover
Samsung renews interest in NXP takeover
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The on-again, off-again rumors around a possible acquisition bid for NXP Semiconductors NV from Samsung Electronics have resurfaced sending NXP's stock price up briefly.
Lauterbach supports Fraunhofer RISC-V functional safety core
Lauterbach supports Fraunhofer RISC-V functional safety core
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Lauterbach’s debug tool now supports the EMSA5-FS functional safety processor core developed using the open RISC-V instruction set architecture. EMSA5-FS was developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) as…
Automotive industry driving down acceptable chip defect levels, observes Sondrel
Automotive industry driving down acceptable chip defect levels, observes Sondrel
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The automotive industry, with its extremely high requirements on reliability and longevity, is having a major impact on the semiconductor industry, notes British semiconductor company Sondrel. The company, which develops…
China must seize TSMC if the US tightens sanctions, says economist
China must seize TSMC if the US tightens sanctions, says economist
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China should take control of Taiwan and leading chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) if the US tightens sanctions, according to a senior Chinese economist. The course…
Americas chip market growth stays high in April as China decline continues
Americas chip market growth stays high in April as China decline continues
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The global chip market’s year-on-year growth continued to dip in April. Continued strong growth in the Americas region was offset by a dip in the Chinese market. The global chip…
Flex Logix launches AI/ML software for its edge AI chip
Flex Logix launches AI/ML software for its edge AI chip
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FPGA designer Flex Logic is has launched a platform of machine learning (ML) frameworks for its edge AI inference accelerator chip. This is part of an increasing trend for FPGA…
Semiconductor market to grow 11 percent in 2022 despite headwinds
Semiconductor market to grow 11 percent in 2022 despite headwinds
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The global semiconductor market will be worth $680.7 billion in 2022, up 11 percent despite gathering headwinds slowing down the global economy. The latest report from IC Insights sees the…
2022 chip market growth will be 11 percent despite headwinds, says IC Insights
2022 chip market growth will be 11 percent despite headwinds, says IC Insights
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The global chip market will be worth $680.7 billion in 2022, an annual increase of 11 percent despite soaring energy costs, supply chain shortages, Covid-19 lockdowns in China and the…
The drivers behind Intel’s Scottish software deal
The drivers behind Intel’s Scottish software deal
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Intel is to buy Scottish compiler developer Codeplay Software in a move to open up its software stack for high performance computing, RISC-V and FPGAs. The deal aims to boost…
Automotive Ethernet switch meets functional safety standards
Automotive Ethernet switch meets functional safety standards
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Marvell has introduced an automotive Ethernet switch IC with lockstep dual-core reliability – the first in the industry. The lockstep dual-core feature enables the design of fail-safe automotive data connectivity…
SEMI Europe urges haste with European Chips Act
SEMI Europe urges haste with European Chips Act
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SEMI Europe, the semiconductor industry body, has urged the European Union to adopt the European Chips Act quickly, but also recognize where it falls short and involve the industry in…
UK looks for input on chip supply chain
UK looks for input on chip supply chain
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The UK government is asking industry for its views on the state of the domestic semiconductor industry and its ability to supply chips. The inquiry comes after several industries have…
UK government opens inquiry about domestic semiconductor industry
UK government opens inquiry about domestic semiconductor industry
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The UK government has opened an inquiry into the state of the semiconductor industry in the UK and its ability to supply chips. The inquiry comes after several quarters of…


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