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SK hynix partners with TSMC to strengthen HBM technological leadership, will work together on next-gen HBM4 and next-gen advanced packaging technology.

Intel Foundry confirms it has completed the assembly of the industry's first commercial High-NA EUV lithography machine at its D1X fab in Oregon, USA.

Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever High-NA EUV lithography machine to a new mystery customer, after Intel got theirs first.

The Biden administration reaches an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in US government funding for Micron to make memory chips in New York and Idaho.

NVIDIA's new Blackwell AI GPUs expected to boost TSMC's CoWoS total capacity by over 150% in 2024, with millions of shipments expected in 2025.

Taiwan avoided power outages thanks to TSMC, which helped generate electricity with its diesel generators supplying 200,000 kilowatts of electricty.

Sony's beefed-up PlayStation 5 Pro is coming later this year, with developers asked to make sure their games are compatible with the faster PS5 Pro.

NVIDIA A100 7936SP AI GPU hits China with more CUDA cores and more HBM memory than the regular A100 with 80GB versus 96GB on the new A100 in China.

Samsung Electronics co-CEO Qing Guixian visited Taiwan in a 'low key manner' to promote Samsung HBM, seeks Taiwan ODMs to help manufacture them.

Sony files copyright strike against Moore's Law is Dead's video on PlayStation 5 Pro leaks, video has now been removed from YouTube.

SK hynix has high hopes for its US operations, with next-generation memory products will be delivered with next-gen advanced packaging technologies.

LG Electronics announces plans for home appliance-specific on-device AI chip: DQ-C, to be used in 46 models of LG products across 8 product families.

NVIDIA's Hopper H100 AI GPU shortages are getting better: lead times are dropping from around 4 weeks, to AI GPU customers now waiting 8-12 weeks.

Microsoft has officially rolled out a record number of security vulnerability fixes for its products, which the company has classified as critical.

Intel is reportedly 'comprehensively changing the supply chain structure' for its Intel Foundry business to succeed, talks with TSMC's customers.

Meta's next-gen MTIA AI processor is made on TSMC 5nm, up to 1.35GHz frequency, PCIe Gen5 x8 interface, to fight NVIDIA in the cloud business.

AMD's upgraded MI350X AI GPU teased: newer 4nm process node at TSMC, upgraded HBM3E memory that will better fight NVIDIA H200, B200 AI GPUs.

Reports indicate that TSMC's manufacturing timelines for 2nm and 1.4nm have been nailed down and likely headed for Apple Silicone.

Samsung's new flagship OLED TV for 2024 makes a big change to the display, the S95D ditches the glossy finish for a non-reflective coat.

TSMC's top 7 customers in 2023 consisted of Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Broadcom, Intel, and others. Apple provided 25% of revenue in 2023.

Samsung and SK hynix concentrating on US-based operations might push back South Korea construction schedules, with billions of dollars at stake.

Intel's new Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is official: 64 Tensor Cores, 128GB of HBM2e memory with up to 3.7TB/sec memory bandwidth, and 900W of power on air.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger shows off next-gen Lunar Lake CPU at Vision 2024 event, says it will feature 100+ TOPs of AI performance, 45 TOPS from NPU alone.

The US government is expected to award $6.6 billion in subsidies from CHIPS Act to Samsung to expand its chip output in Taylor, Texas, USA.

TSMC Arizona and US Department of Commerce announce $11.6 billion in new funding from CHIPS Act, third leading-edge facility in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

NVIDIA will initially focus on the top-end GeForce RTX 5090 and high-end GeForce RTX 5080 at first, where they'll be more expensive than ever.

Samsung has won NVIDIA as a customer for advanced 2.5D packaging, with the company providing its interposer and I-Cube to NVIDIA for AI GPUs.

US demands that ASML stop servicing some of the equipment it's sold to Chinese customers, Dutch government is buckling under intense pressure.

NVIDIA reportedly increases its GPU pricing for GeForce gaming graphics cards by 10%, hitting the popular RTX 4060, RTX 3060, and GTX 1650 series.

Intel kicks off its restructuring plans, with reported layoffs occuring within the Sales and Marketing division, but Intel Foundry Services is all good.

AMD's next-gen Ryzen 9000 series 'Granite Ridge' desktop ES processor spotted: 8 cores and 16 threads of next-gen Zen 5 isn't far away.

AMD's next-gen Zen 5 won't have a monster 40% IPC improvement, recent leaks suggest somewhere in the 'teens or low to mid-twenties'.

NVIDIA says 'After consulting with our manufacturing partners, we don't expect any impact on our supply from the Taiwan earthquake'.

TSMC took just 10 hours of the earthquake on April 3 in Taiwan to reach 70% operation in some fabs, new fabs were back to 80% in the same time.

A dangerous earthquake has struck Taiwan, forcing some of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's chip fabrication plants to evacuate.

TSMC's new Arizona plant in the United States heads into trial production of its first production line in mid-April, mass production by end of the year.

A huge 7.5-magnitude earthquake has hit near Taiwan, sending tsunami warnings for waves expected to be 3m high for remote Japanese islands near Taiwan.

SK hynix pushes past $100 billion market capetlization, becomes South Korea's second biggest company by market cap to Samsung, thanks to AI GPUs.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Kyushu University in Japan to sign new agreement: TSMC researchers to teach Kyushu University students.

TSMC chairman and chief scientist explain how they'll reach a 1 trillion transistor GPU, with advances in semiconductor tech feeding the AI boom.

MatX is a new startup founded by ex-Google chip designers, will build a next-generation AI processor specifically designed for gigantic LLMs.

Amazon plans on spending almost $150 billion over the next 15 years on data centers, ready for 'expected explosion in demand' for AI services.

Dutch government commits $2.7 billion to enhance infrastructure, education, and housing in the Eindhoven region, to keep ASML happy in the Netherlands.

AMD's next-gen 'Granite Ridge' desktop CPUs powered by Zen 5 in 6-core and 8-core processor variants spotted, with 170W TDP designs.

The South Korean government is considering subsidies for the semiconductor industry, as competition from rival countries is 'intensifying'.

Samsung will supply next-generation Mach-1 AI chips to South Korean search giant Naver, worth $752 million, as Naver reduces reliance on NVIDIA.

Astera Labs demos PCIe 6.0 connectivity working at NVIDIA GTC 2024 with working PCIe 6.0 retimer ready for NVIDIA's new Blackwell B100, B200, GB200 AI GPUs.

Chinese president Xi Jinping told Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte that attempts to restrict China's access to technology will not stop the country.

Intel's next-gen Lunar Lake-MX laptop CPU pictured on reference platform: 8 CPU cores, 8 Arc Xe2-LPG GPU cores, and on-package LPDDR5X memory.

Samsung's new Galaxy Book5 Pro laptop features Intel's next-gen Lunar Lake 8-core CPU, Arc Battlemage 'Xe2' GPU, spotted on SiSoft Sandra database.