Intel secures $3.25B Israeli gov’t grant to build $25B chip fab in Israel amid ongoing tensions
Intel to build a $25 billion fab in Israel, set to get $3.25 billion in government grants.
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US Govt’s sluggish Chips Act payouts slam the breaks on Samsung’s fab — company delays mass production at Texas fab to await further CHIPS funding: Report
Samsung’s Texas fab will be operational in 2024, but won’t have mass production capability until 2025 at the earliest.
Intel’s CEO says Moore’s Law is slowing to a three-year cadence, but it’s not dead yet
Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger says transistors now double every three years instead of two, which isn’t exactly Moore’s Law.
Rumors swirl that TSMC chairman Mark Liu was forced to retire over Arizona fab debacle
After TSMC announced the upcoming retirement of chairman Mark Liu, some have speculated it might not have been voluntary.
TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track
Development of TSMC’s 1.4nm-class manufacturing technology is well underway, the company revealed during the Future of Logic panel during the IEEE International Electron […]
South Korean chipmaking tool firms increase their sales into China, capitalizing on U.S. sanctions against the PRC
Although Chinese companies can no longer get advanced chipmaking tools from American, Japanese, or Dutch companies, they can still get advanced fab […]
TSMC and Arizona labor unions come to agreement, fab construction back on track
TSMC’s usage of foreign workers upset local workers and unions, but it seems the conflict is at an end.
TSMC chairman says, ‘Not being criticized is the biggest enemy of engineers’ as company works through union problems at Arizona fab
TSMC has been struggling to adapt its business model to the cultural landscape of the U.S., but things are improving.
Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal chipmaking IP
A Chinese-linked hacker group maintained covert access to NXP for over two years, from the end of 2017 to the beginning of […]
Lunar Lake MX will be Intel’s first high-performance CPU to use outsourced TSMC node for x86 cores — reportedly uses N3B process
Intel’s x86 chips are now forging into new territory — leaked slides published by prominent hardware leaker @YuuKi_AnS (yet quickly removed) indicate that the […]