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In the current global silicon carbide (SiC) market, 8-inch wafers have undoubtedly become one of the hottest topics. TrendForce believes that while processing costs increase when upgrading from 6-inch to 8-inch SiC substrates, the resulting increase in chip output is significant. An 8-inch wafer can...
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According to SEMI, the global shipments of silicon wafers increased 5.9% quarter-over-quarter to 3,214 million square inches (MSI) in the third quarter, and registered 6.8% growth from the 3,010 million square inches recorded during the same quarter last year, which could be attributed to the strong...
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According to BNN Bloomberg, SoftBank is set to be the first to build a supercomputer powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell platform, highlighting the Japanese company's ambitions in the AI sector. NVIDIA's press release reveals that SoftBank is poised to receive the world's first NVIDIA DGX B200 product,...
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Global oil demand for this year and next has been revised downward for the fourth time by OPEC, according to its report released on November 12. The report states that the OECD has reduced its 2024 global oil demand growth forecast by 107 thousand barrels per day (tb/d) to 1.8 million barrels per...
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According to TrendForce's latest memory spot price trend report, regarding DRAM, the spot market is still seeing an across-the-board price decline for both DDR4 and DDR5, while DDR4 products are noticeably suffering larger drops. As for NAND flash, the declination of spot prices remains unchanged. D...