The US Department of Commerce and SK Hynix have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms to provide up to US$450 million in proposed federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act to establish a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility in Indiana.
On August 6th, WT Microelectronics, a leading IC distributor based in Taiwan, held its investor conference where Chairman Simon Cheng expressed confidence that current semiconductor market headwinds are only a short-term phenomenon.
On August 6th, 2024, the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) event commenced, highlighting AI storage applications and new products. Leading companies Phison and Western Digital (WD) have each made strides into the data center SSD market, both unveiling storage solutions with capacities reaching up to 64TB.
Google’s defeat in an antitrust suit filed by the Justice Department has cast a shadow over partner Apple Inc., which generates roughly US$20 billion per year in payments from the internet search giant.
Google illegally monopolized the search market through exclusive deals, a judge ruled Monday, handing the government a win in its first major antitrust case against a tech giant in over two decades.
SEMICON Taiwan 2024 is set to take place from September 4-6 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, spotlighting key industry themes such as the AI value chain, advanced processes, heterogeneous integration, compound semiconductors, and silicon photonics.
China-based foundries are rapidly expanding their capacity for mature logic IC processes, limiting local NOR production capability. As a result, global NOR flash supply and demand are close to equilibrium, with supply expected to be constrained in 2025, according to industry sources.
Samsung Electronics reported strong results for the second quarter of 2024, with its Device Solutions (DS) division, led by memory chips and the System LSI Business, driving nearly 60% of the company’s operating profit.