Battery maker Agratas has bought a new R&D facility in the UK to serve as its technology hub. The 22,857 sq ft (2,123 sq m) facility at Milton Park, Oxford, will serve as the company’s UK technology hub, further strengthening its global...
Published on: December 23, 2024
Alphawave Semi has shown the industry’s first 64 Gbit/s Die-to-Die (D2D) IP subsystem for the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe).The third generation IP, built on a 3nm process in both standard and advanced packaging at TSMC, follows the most recent Gen2 36...
Published on: December 23, 2024
The technique provides researchers with a powerful tool for controlling magnetism, and could help in designing faster, smaller, more energy-efficient memory chips – MIT news
Published on: December 22, 2024
The US government has confirmed nearly $5bn for Samsung fabs in Texas and $407m for Amkor in Arizona for packaging, both cut by 20% since the original announcements.The $407m funding for Amkor Technology Arizona, a subsidiary of Amkor Technology, will directly support...
Published on: December 22, 2024
X-fab has enhanced its silicon carbide (SiC) process in Lubbock, Texas, for foundry customers.The Belgian foundry has improved the capability of the lithography, deposition and etch tools and made major process flow changes from the previous generation for the XSICM03 next-generation XbloX...
Published on: December 22, 2024
ARM has lost its court case against Qualcomm for license infringement marks a key moment for the IP industry in several ways. Late on Friday a jury ruled against ARM on two of the three counts, and was undecided on a third charge....
Published on: December 21, 2024
A jury in Wilmington, Delaware, has found that Qualcomm’s latest AI-PC processors – based on the ARM instruction set – are properly licensed, say Reuters and Bloomberg reports.The court thereby rejected ARM’s call that the intellectual property should be destroyed or that...
Published on: December 21, 2024
The European Commission has approved a €1.3 billion subsidy from the Italian government to Silicon Box for its advanced packaging and testing facility in Novara, in the Piedmont region.The plant will support chiplet-style manufacturing of components on panels, rather than at wafer...
Published on: December 20, 2024
A South Korean academic body has floated the idea of the government helping to create a logic foundry modelled after Taiwan’s TSMC, according to The Korea Bizwire.The plan for the formation of the Korea Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was discussed at a seminar...
Published on: December 20, 2024
Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) enjoyed record revenue in its first quarter of fiscal 2025 but saw its share price lose 15 percent on weak guidance given for 2FQ25.The chip maker reported revenue of US$8.71 billion versus US$7.75 billion...
Published on: December 20, 2024