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SpaceX and Tesla confirmed on Thursday that their joint chipmaking project, Terafab, will rise on a SpaceX-owned site in Grimes County, Texas, about an hour from Houston — and that the first phase alone carries a $16.8 billion price tag…
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SEOUL — SK Hynix's board met on Friday and approved roughly 54.3 trillion won, or $38.3 billion, in spending on two new memory fabrication plants, the company said in a regulatory filing. The money splits two ways: 35.2 trillion won heads…
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Anthropic confirmed this week it is standing up an in-house silicon team to design custom AI chips built around Claude, making the model maker the last of the big frontier labs to commit to its own hardware. The announcement, first…
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Samsung Flips AI Memory on Its Head: New zHBM Stack Sits Memory Right on Top of the Processor Samsung Electronics pulled the lid off a memory architecture it says is the industry's first of its kind, and the whole pitch is about…
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Semiconductors
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ON Semiconductor just told Wall Street something carmakers won't love: when supply runs short, AI data center customers get first pick of its chips. The company, known as onsemi, reported second-quarter revenue of $1.6 billion on August 4…
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Semiconductors
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China's ChangXin Memory Technologies is in talks to build a second memory-chip plant in Beijing, Reuters reported Monday, citing two people familiar with the plans. The proposed 12-inch DRAM fab would go up in Yizhuang, a technology…
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SK Group has agreed to hand control of SK Siltron, South Korea's only dedicated semiconductor wafer maker, to Doosan Group for about 2.3 trillion won (US$1.6 billion). The two conglomerates signed the share purchase deal on July 31 after…
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Semiconductors
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ChangXin Memory Technologies, the Chinese DRAM maker known as CXMT, has nearly finished validating its first LPDDR6 chips and is closing in on commercial production, according to reports published over the past week. The milestone lands…
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Semiconductors
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TSMC is quietly building a packaging technology that mirrors Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, or EMIB, and it has recruited Taiwan's Kinsus Interconnect Technology to help. The Information reported the project on Thursday…
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Samsung Electronics posted a staggering 250-fold jump in semiconductor profit for the second quarter, while warning that the global chip shortage will drag on through 2028 as AI data center builders fight for every memory module they can…
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The US Department of Commerce is pouring $874 million into seven companies for next-generation semiconductor research and development, with GlobalFoundries landing the biggest single award at $300 million to develop silicon photonics…
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China has begun mass-producing homegrown immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, a move that chips away at Dutch chip-tool giant ASML's long-held monopoly and gives Beijing a strategic hedge against tightening US export…