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Biden admin announces $1.5B to support chip manufacturing

Projects in Vermont and New York include factory refurbishment The Biden administration has announced $1.5 billion in potential funding to support multiple semiconductor manufacturing projects in New York and Vermont. The Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundries have signed a non-binding agreement of terms for the...

NXP intros new low-power MCUs for smart edge apps in industrial IoT

Chip design company NXP Semiconductors has released two new lines of low-cost and low-power microcontroller units (MCUs) to support intelligent edge applications in industrial and industrial IoT gadgetry, plus in sundry smart-home and smart-city devices. The MCX A14x and A15x are the first commercially-available...

Broadcom plans to cut nearly 1,300 VMware jobs

Broadcom will reportedly cut 1,267 employees at VMware’s Palo Alto office Broadcom will reportedly cut employees at VMware’s Palo Alto office, following the completion of the $61 billion acquisition of the software player company, which finally closed last month after facing various regulatory hurdles. According...

Anthropic to use Google chips for its large language model

Google recently invested $2 billion in Anthropic San Francisco-based generative AI startup Anthropic has revealed that it will be one of the first companies to deploy new AI chips from Google. The announcement comes just a few weeks after Google confirmed a $2 billion investment...

US further restricts AI chip exports to China

The new set of chip restrictions hitting China are designed to close loopholes in existing regulations The U.S. Department of Commerce has escalated its efforts to resist the sale of advanced chips to China after loopholes in last year’s export restrictions were put in place. This...

Qualcomm to cut more than 1,200 jobs

Qualcomm will layoff 1,258 workers in San Diego and Santa Clara, beginning in December Pointing to the ongoing poor sales performance of its phone chips, Qualcomm notified the California Employment Development Department that it plans to cut 1,258 positions in San Diego and Santa Clara,...

NTT, Qualcomm to accelerate 5G device ecosystem for AI edge adoption

NTT exec: 'We used to say software is eating hardware; I think AI will eat software' This week, during Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, NTT and Qualcomm announced a partnership focused on bolstering the 5G device ecosystem to accelerate the global private 5G market, which...

Qualcomm to reduce staff in China amid dwindling smartphone demand

The Qualcomm R&D facility in Shanghai, China opened in 2010 and employs nearly 400 staff While Qualcomm has denied rumors that it plans to shut its Shanghai R&D facility or enact “large-scale” layoffs in China, it did reveal that will reduce the facility’s staff, citing...

Kagan: Huawei finds new ways to survive with Mate 60 Pro and 5G

Huawei grows with Mate 60 Pro smartphone, 5G chips and HarmonyOS As the old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. The United States tried to stop China from monitoring US communications by blocking Huawei from America wireless networks and...

TSMC to buy stake in Intel nanofab company

Intel acquired IMS company in 2015 Intel has agreed to sell a 10% stake in its IMS Nanofabrication business to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) for roughly $4.3 billion. The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, leaves Intel as the...

AI chip revenue to hit $53.4 billion this year: Gartner

According to Gartner, AI chip revenue will continue growing to $119.4 billion in 2027 Gartner this week revealed findings that suggest potential revenue from semiconductors designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) workloads will hit $53.4 billion this year — an increase of 20.9% from 2022...

UK in talks with AI chip giants

The U.K. government is in discussions with AMD, Intel and Nvidia about securing AI components to power a $127.6 million research project According to reports, the U.K. government is in discussions with AMD, Intel and Nvidia about securing artificial intelligence (AI) components to power a...

Intel terminates $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor

Intel announced the deal in February 2022 and hoped it would help scale its foundry services Intel has terminated the $5.4 billion deal to acquire Israel-based chip company Tower Semiconductor, citing regulatory hurdles. The deal, announced in February 2022, was intended to help scale Intel’s...

Renesas to buy Sequans for $249m as part of rapid IoT buying-spree

Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Electronics has agreed a deal to buy France-based cellular IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications for $249 million. The deal is expected to close “by the first quarter” of next year (2024), subject to its formal approval by the French firm’s works...

Bosch, Infineon, Nordic, NXP, Qualcomm drive open-source RISC-V hardware

Heavyweights in the semiconductor industry have joined together to create a new company to accelerate production of products based on the new open-source RISC-V (RISC-five; reduced instruction set computer-V) architecture. Robert Bosch, Infineon Technologies, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductor, and Qualcomm Technologies will jointly invest...

EU semiconductor supply chain gets $23.6 billion boost

The investment in the EU semiconductor market includes both public and private funds The European Union (EU) this week approved a massive semiconductor and communication technologies project that will use roughly €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in state funds. The public investment encouraged another €13.7 billions ($14.7...

GlobalFoundries and STMicro shake on €7.5bn chip facility in France

New York headquartered GlobalFoundries and Switzerland-headquartered STMicroelectronics (STMicro) have confirmed a deal to build a jointly-operated semiconductor manufacturing facility in Crolles, in France, at a total project cost of €7.5 billion – of which around €3 billion will reportedly be provided by the French...

China bans US chipmaker Micron, fanning global tensions

Micron failed to pass a cybersecurity review, says the Cyberspace Administration of China Tensions between China and the U.S. escalated over the weekend when the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced its decision to ban Idaho-based memory chipmaker Micron from selling to Chinese companies. According...

NI expands it automotive focus with new Novi testing facility

NI has been sharpening its automotive testing capabilities in the past few years, racking up acquisitions like the electric vehicle division of Germany-based Heinzinger Electronic and the EV test systems business of Kratzer Automation AG, both in 2022, and projects like its launch of...

Oppo shutters in-house chip unit amid market uncertainties

Oppo established its in-house chip unit, called Zeku, in 2019 With the global semiconductor market still facing shortages, political tension and other setbacks, Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has announced the abrupt closure of its in-house chip design unit. "Due to the uncertainties in the global...

Analog Devices invests €630m in new Industry 4.0 chip making facility in Ireland

US chip maker Analog Devices is to invest €630 million into its European headquarters in Limerick, Ireland, to build a new research and manufacturing facility in order to spur development of semiconductor solutions for the industrial, automotive, and healthcare sectors. The firm expects to...

Semtech rebrands with simplified Sierra motif, green eco palette, IoT at its heart

Semtech has rebranded to incorporate its acquisition of Sierra Wireless into its iconography and impose some visual logic on its expanded product portfolio – and also to position itself, as a home for both non-cellular and cellular IoT, as a proponent of planet-saving tech....

Skyworks, Sequans combine on “smallest” LTE-M and NB-IoT system-in-package

Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on the product, numbered SKY66431, to combine the France-based firm’s Monarch 2 modem with its...

Nowi, E-Peas strikes deals to expand energy harvesting in IoT, as market jumps 10%

A couple of interesting press notes about energy harvesting in IoT modules during the past week, all originating in the Low Countries; Dutch firm Nowi, a key supplier of energy harvesting circuits, has said Chinese IoT chip design company Telink Semiconductor is using its...