A MOU signed by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal and the Chief Executive Officer of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) Adam Willia
The expansion of fab capacity in 2024 is expected to be relatively low at 4% as manufacturers let capacity utilization rates recover from the low levels experienced in 2023, according to the Global W
Intel has sold 49% of its Fab 34 in Leixlip, Ireland for $11 billion to private equity fund Apollo.It is Intel’s second Semiconductor Co-Investment Program (SCIP) arrangement. SCIP is an element of
Q1 saw NAND revenues rise by 28.1% to $14.71 billion, says TrendForce.Micron overtook Western Digital to claim the fourth spot with 51.2% QoQ revenue growth to $1.72 billion.Samsung remained No.1 wit
Infineon is sampling CoolSiC MOSFET 400V family based 25°C. makes them suitable for use in 2- and 3-level converters and for synchronous rectification.The components are 100 percent avalanche tested.
China is to put a third tranche of cash, worth $47.5 billion, into the Big Fund – the colloquial name for the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund.The Big Fund was set up in 2014 with $19
Micron will get $6.1 billion in US Chips Act grants to help build fabs in New York and Idaho. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York announced the award and said the money would go towards building two fabs in New York by 2030 and o
Earlier today TSMC announced Q1 revenue up 12.9% y-o-y at $18.87 billion and profit up 8.9% y-o-y at $6.96 billion. Compared to Q4, the Q1 revenue was down 5.3% and net income was down 5.5%. Gross margin for the
The Q1 smartphone market grew 7.8% q-o-q to 289.4 million units, says IDC. It was the third consecutive quarter of market growth, Notes: • Data are preliminary and subject to change.
2023 sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell 1.3% to $106.3 billion from 2022’s record $107.6 billion, says SEMI. China was the biggest market, growing 29% y-o-y to $36.6 billion, followed by Korea whi
TSMC had Q1 revenue up 16.5% y-o-y at $18.54 billion up from $16.72 billion Q1 2023. For March, TSMC had revenues that were 34.3% up y-o-y and 7.5% up m-o-m at $6.2 billion. It was the biggest m-o-m rise since Nove
After two years of decline, the worldwide traditional PC market returned to growth during the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24) with 59.8 million shipments, growing 1.5% year over year, according to IDC RECOMMENDED ARTICLESHMI claim
