Week of 9th Dec - Global Roundup | VLSi Connect News

News Source:

• https://semiconductors.einnews.com/pr_news/768616005/semiconductor-assembly-and-testing-services-market-size-to-cagr-of-4-04-market-structure-regional-analysis

• https://www.uktech.news/seminconductor/uk-to-send-semiconductor-firms-on-rd-mission-to-south-korea-20241213

• https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tenstorrent-powers-first-automotive-risc-v-ai-accelerator-chiplet/

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-targets-chinas-solar-dominance-with-50-percent-tariffs-on-solar-wafers-and-polysilicon-tungsten-products-will-see-a-25-percent-increase

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-executive-says-spinning-off-manufacturing-unit-is-an-open-question

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-shares-deep-dive-details-about-its-cutting-edge-2nm-process-node-at-iedm-2024-35-percent-less-power-or-15-percent-more-performance

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-posts-strong-year-on-year-revenue-growth-of-34-percent-despite-month-to-month-slowdown-foundry-pulls-in-usd8-5b-in-revenue-for-november-2024

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-could-face-massive-usd1-billion-fine-over-antitrust-violations-in-china-nvidias-mellanox-acquisition-is-in-beijings-crosshairs

• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/marvell-develops-custom-hbm-solution-that-offers-higher-performance-in-a-smaller-physical-space

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/synopsys-announces-ultra-ethernet-and-ualink-ip-to-power-the-next-generation-of-ai-datacenters

• https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/boi-approves-taiwans-foxsemicon-to-establish-high-tech-semiconductor-manufacturing-base-in-thailand-483400

• https://opengovasia.com/2024/12/12/vietnam-u-s-strengthens-ties-in-semiconductors-ai-and-cloud-computing/

• https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3290435/chip-war-us-plans-cap-countries-semiconductor-access-targeting-chinese-smuggling?utm_source=rss_feed

• https://semiconductors.einnews.com/pr_news/768416068/space-semiconductor-market-is-projected-to-grow-expeditiously-to-reach-usd-4-8-billion-by-2032-report

• https://www.fonearena.com/blog/442011/samsung-chip-design-for-high-school-program.html

• https://decrypt.co/296139/apple-partners-with-broadcom-to-develop-first-ai-server-chips-launch-set-for-2026

• https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20241210PD208/tsmc-samsung-intel-ai-chip.html

• https://entrackr.com/snippets/semiconductor-startup-netrasemi-raises-rs-10-cr-in-pre-series-a-8416152

• https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/broadcom-unveils-gigantic-3-5d-xdsip-platform-for-ai-xpus-6000mm2-of-stacked-silicon-with-12-hbm-modules

• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-looks-beyond-silicon-outlines-breakthroughs-in-atomically-thin-2d-transistors-chip-packaging-and-interconnects-at-iedm-2024

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/u-s-house-set-to-vote-on-usd3b-funding-for-the-replacement-of-chinese-telecoms-equipment-but-swapping-out-all-the-huawei-and-zte-equipment-will-cost-more

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russian-ex-asml-employee-indicted-for-stealing-critical-trade-secrets-currently-in-custody-faces-20-year-netherlands-entry-ban

• https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2024/12/07/penang-semiconductor-hub-project-to-get-rm50mil-federal-support

• https://assamtribune.com/assam/assam-semiconductor-conclave-2024-champions-tech-industrial-growth-1560284

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Week of 2nd Dec - Global Roundup | VLSi Connect News

News Source:

• Excerpts from "A ‘designed in India’ 5G chip, fabbed at TSMC, is facing fund crunch, low commercial uptake | Technology News - The Indian Express"

• Excerpts from "Arm aims beyond semiconductors, targeting AI hardware, software, ecosystem"

• Excerpts from "Bhavish Aggarwal pledges Ola Electric shares for Krutrim’s debt"

• Excerpts from "China fires back at Trump’s 10% tariff proposal with a 20% price cut on domestic products — Beijing's policy will negatively affect chipmakers, including Nvidia and Intel | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "China's largest chip industry associations say it's unsafe to buy US chips — warnings come in the wake of new US sanctions | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Chinese chip firms say a new round of US sanctions won’t stop China’s chip industry — Chinese government responds with its own export restrictions anyways | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Germany to invest €2 billion in semiconductor sector"

• Excerpts from "Huawei's homegrown AI chip examined — Chinese fab SMIC-produced Ascend 910B is massively different from the TSMC-produced Ascend 910 | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "In a bid to compete with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and Samsung invest $700 million in AI chip startup Tenstorrent | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Intel appoints two new board members with semiconductor backgrounds following Gelsinger exit | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Intel co-CEO David Zinsner says 'core strategy remains intact' — Intel will continue to be a products and foundry company | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Intel's next CEO could be Lip-Bu Tan, a former member of the board who reportedly clashed with Gelsinger about strategy | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Is Intel's telco business headed toward a sale?"

• Excerpts from "Japanese firms keen to set up semiconductor units in India: Deloitte - The Economic Times"

• Excerpts from "Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology: India imported semiconductor chips worth Rs 1.71 lakh crore last fiscal: MoS IT - The Economic Times"

• Excerpts from "Nvidia, flush with cash, looks to acquire new talent through mergers and acquisitions | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Purported TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers (Updated) | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "Shareholders pay up as Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger is reportedly set to depart with a $12 million golden handshake | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "TSMC is reportedly in talks with Nvidia to make Blackwell GPUs in Arizona — Blackwell silicon needs to be shipped back to Taiwan for assembly | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "TSMC's N2 process has a major advantage over Intel's 18A: SRAM density | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "U.S. ratchets up sanctions to curtail China's AI and military tech — no more HBM memory for China | Tom's Hardware"

• Excerpts from "UP Government Approves ₹8,500 Crore Incentive Package for Noida Semiconductor Projects | Noida News - Times of India"

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Week of 25th Nov - Global Roundup | VLSi Connect News

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https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-gpu-vendor-teases-arc-battlemage-reveal-for-december-4-gpus-may-launch-a-little-over-a-week-later

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/taiwan-ready-to-discuss-2nm-transfer-to-u-s-following-trumps-comments

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/samsung-and-sk-hynix-will-detail-gddr7-with-transfer-rates-up-to-42-5-gt-s-samsung-24gb-gddr7-expected-to-deliver-170-gb-s-of-peak-bandwidth

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/huaweis-homegrown-ai-chip-examined-chinese-fab-smic-produced-ascend-910b-is-massively-different-from-the-tsmc-produced-ascend-910

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-visits-elon-musks-memphis-data-center-touts-xeon-deployment-praises-xai-team-for-building-it-in-such-a-short-amount-of-time

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/new-u-s-restrictions-will-hit-chinese-chipmaking-tool-companies-sanctions-aim-to-slow-development-of-domestic-chipmaking-tools-to-replace-asml-others

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-companies-poach-staff-from-asml-and-zeiss-with-three-times-higher-pay-employees-needed-to-design-and-build-chipmaking-tools-amid-sanctions

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/leading-pc-makers-ask-chinese-partners-to-up-production-before-trump-takes-office

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intels-chips-act-funding-restricts-the-sale-of-foundry-buisness-company-has-to-maintain-majority-share-if-it-spins-off-manufacturing-unit

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/china-debuts-global-scheduling-ethernet-chip-to-deliver-networking-solutions-for-ai-aims-to-compete-with-the-ultra-ethernet-consortium-for-next-generation-interconnection-technologies

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-reshuffles-semiconductor-execs-after-poor-performance-in-memory-and-nand-competitiveness

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/despite-restrictions-russia-allegedly-finds-new-way-to-produce-sanctioned-48-core-baikal-s-processors-report

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-super-carrier-cowos-interposer-gets-bigger-enabling-massive-ai-chips-to-reach-9-reticle-sizes-with-12-hbm4-stacks

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/x86-reigns-supreme-as-snapdragon-x-elite-chips-captured-just-0-8-percent-of-the-market-with-720-000-units-sold-in-q3-2024-qualcomm-misses-out-on-rising-ai-pc-sales-with-intel-and-amd-taking-charge

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/china-now-producing-its-own-blank-wafers-as-domestic-memory-company-ramps-up-3d-nand-production-ymtc-consumes-500-000-homegrown-wafers-per-month

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amd-granted-a-glass-substrate-patent-intel-samsung-and-others-race-to-deploy-the-new-tech

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-to-reportedly-sanction-200-more-chinese-chip-firms-high-bandwidth-memory-might-also-see-export-bans

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-plans-sale-and-leaseback-of-its-150-acre-folsom-california-campus-releasing-capital-but-maintaining-operations-and-staff

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Week of 18th Nov - Global Roundup | VLSi Connect News

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https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-desktop-pc-chipmaker-loongson-now-has-chips-running-the-tiangong-space-station-enabling-optical-remote-sensing-image-capturing-and-radiation-source-identification

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-1-6nm-update-tangible-improvements-but-new-challenges-emerge

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/globalfoundries-gets-usd1-5-billion-subsidy-from-u-s-govt-after-it-was-fined-for-violating-export-laws-to-china

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-announces-its-customers-can-now-design-performance-enhanced-2nm-chips-with-super-high-performance-capacitors

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-warns-japan-over-ramping-semiconductor-sanctions-threatens-to-block-essential-manufacturing-materials

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-warns-of-gaming-gpu-shortage-this-quarter-recovery-in-early-2025-chipmaker-rakes-in-record-profits-as-net-income-soars-by-109-percent-yoy

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-blackwell-ai-gpu-overheating-issues-are-seemingly-overhyped-semiconductor-analysts-reveal-cooling-issues-have-been-mostly-addressed

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-sanctions-freeze-huaweis-ascend-ai-chips-on-older-7nm-process-node-thats-eight-years-behind-tsmc-stalling-progress-until-at-least-2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/google-may-be-forced-to-sell-its-chrome-browser-due-to-monopoly-complaints-potential-usd20-billion-sale-if-approved-by-a-judge

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-dominates-chip-sales-on-amazon-top-ten-best-selling-cpus-all-come-from-team-red-intels-highest-entry-sits-at-11th-place

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-is-reportedly-planning-a-battlemage-soc-launch-event-in-december-probably-materializing-before-rdna-4-and-blackwell

https://en.antaranews.com/news/335609/govt-ropes-in-us-varsity-to-build-semiconductor-ecosystem

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/11/oregon-based-lattice-semiconductor-may-try-to-buy-part-of-intel-bloomberg-reports.html

https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/arm-donates-ps3-5-million-for-cambridge-phd-students-to-study-computer-architecture-and

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/byd-semiconductor-shows-automotive-controller-chips/

https://businessfacilities.com/chips-for-america-gives-semiconductor-packaging-300m-boost/

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Week of 12th Nov - India Roundup | VLSi Connect News

News Source:

• https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-government-notifies-semiconductor-and-display-fab-policy-2024-29/article68878477.ece
• https://www.autocarpro.in/NEWS/cyient-and-allegro-microsystems-establish-center-of-excellence-in-hyderabad-for-automotive-semiconductor-development-123559
• https://www.indiablooms.com/news-details/N/101004/uk-to-bring-first-ever-trade-delegation-on-ai-semiconductors-to-kolkata-next-week.html
• https://assamtribune.com/assam/plans-to-recruit-1500-employees-in-jagiraod-semiconductor-plant-afoot-ravi-kota-1557766
• https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/sectors/electronics/indias-semiconductor-sector-set-to-create-1-million-jobs-by-2026
• https://bharatshakti.in/drdo-develops-indigenous-semiconductor-technology-for-next-gen-defence/

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Week of 12th Nov - Global Roundup | VLSi Connect News

News Source:

• https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/trumps-trade-restrictions-could-be-good-for-american-semiconductor-jobs/articleshow/115384532.cms
• https://www.valuewalk.com/taiwan-semiconductor-gets-6-6-billion-in-chips-act-funding/
• https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-chips/advancing-diamond-semiconductors-for-sustainable-efficient-data-center-power
• https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/trade/bangladesh-aims-to-become-global-semiconductor-hub-projects-1b-revenue-by-2030
• https://menafn.com/1108893950/Dutch-semiconductor-firm-ASML-expects-60-percent-increase-in-chip-sales-by-2030
• https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2024/11/15/selangor-mb-second-malaysia-semiconductor-ic-design-park-to-be-launched-early-next-year/156979
• https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=229440#google_vignette
• https://www.multifamilydive.com/news/development-taiwan-semiconductor-campus-in-phoenix/732748/
• https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/japan-is-ramping-up-efforts-to-revive-its-once-dominant-chip-industry-.html
• https://www.cryptopolitan.com/us-china-agree-keep-ai-out-of-nuclear/
• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-sued-for-race-and-citizenship-discrimation-at-its-arizona-facilities
• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/local-and-foreign-chip-manufacturers-expand-their-presence-in-vietnam-companies-move-to-southeast-asia-as-tensions-simmer-between-china-and-the-u-s
• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/researchers-develop-python-code-that-is-compatible-with-in-memory-computing-python-commands-converted-into-machine-code-to-be-executed-in-the-computers-memory

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Week of 21st Oct - India Roundup | VLSi Connect News

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● Assam builds Semiconductor community with VSI North-East Chapter launch - Assam builds Semiconductor community with VSI North East Chapter launch -

● Business News | India-Germany Synergy in AI Adoption, Semiconductors and Green Technology to Drive Global Growth: Piyush Goyal | LatestLY

● Nvidia, Reliance Industries join forces to build AI computing infra | Company News - Business Standard

● The Strategic Significance of India’s First National Security Semiconductor Plant – The Diplomat

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