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

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• 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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