On November 24, Samsung officially announced plans to establish a fab in the United States with an expected investment of approximately US$17 billion...
TSMC held a meeting of its board of directors on November 9 and subsequently confirmed the establishment of its JASM (Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing) subsidiary in Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan...
According to the latest research by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, the transition to the next generation of networking technologies, new normals resulting from the pandemic...
Samsung will install about 5-10K wspm of 4nm capacity in 4Q21 and expand this capacity to a total of 15K wspm in 4Q22. Samsung has also slightly raised the yield rate of its 4nm node to 35-40%...
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan at 1:11pm, October 24 local time with the epicenter in Yilan. Taiwan’s domestic wafer fabs are located in science parks throughout Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan...
As indicated by the semiconductor research division of global market intelligence firm TrendForce, the demand for semiconductor invigorated by 5G smartphones had started gradually ferment since 2H19, coupling with the break out of the omnipresent COVID-19 pandemic during 2020, as well as the increasingly heightened geopolitical factors...
After TSMC officially raised the prices of its various process technologies in September, Samsung now plans to follow suit by raising its own quotes by about 20%...
Regarding TSMC’s development of the 3nm node...
Certain recent rumors in the semiconductor market claim that the yield rate for Qualcomm X60 5G baseband modems has been lower than expected because of quality issues with Samsung’s 5nm process technology...
TrendForce’s latest investigations find that the panic buying of chips persisted in 2Q21 owing to factors such as post-pandemic demand, industry-wide shift to 5G telecom technology, geopolitical tensions, and chronic chip shortages...