Invest International will provide Nexperia with a US$60 million loan to expand chip production and upgrade manufacturing lines across its global facilities, the Dutch state-backed lender said on February 16.
Japan’s Murata Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest supplier of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), is weighing price increases for high-end MLCCs used in AI servers as demand outpaces supply.
The semiconductor industry is shifting at 2nm from transistor scaling to chiplet-based architectures and advanced packaging. Performance gains are increasingly driven by heterogeneous integration rather than monolithic shrink, reshaping how power, performance, area, and cost are optimized.
Artificial intelligence is shifting the center of gravity in semiconductors. For decades, processors defined performance. Now memory bandwidth, capacity and energy efficiency increasingly determine how much of a GPU’s power can actually be used.
While humanoid robot technology advances rapidly, South Korea is moving to establish regulatory clarity on safety, liability and verification standards ahead of industrial deployment. Legal experts in the country say significant gaps remain in current frameworks, particularly regarding safety and labor, prompting accelerated field validation to provide a clearer basis for future standard-setting.
GlobalFoundries Inc. and Renesas Electronics Corp. have unveiled a multi-billion-dollar expansion of their manufacturing alliance, a move that underscores the deepening “friend-shoring” of the semiconductor industry as Washington and Tokyo scramble to insulate critical silicon from geopolitical volatility.
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