Category Archives: Wafer and Foundries

TSMC December 2024 Revenue Report

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HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jan. 10, 2025 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for December 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for December 2024 was approximately NT$278.16 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent from November 2024 and an increase of 57.8 percent from December 2023. Revenue

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What is a Wafer Fab

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Wafer fabrication, or wafer fab, plays a crucial role in transforming raw materials into the intricate microchips that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles.
 
The process of wafer fabrication involves various sophisticated techniques and technologies that ensure precision and efficiency in creating integrated circuits. With the growth of

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Eighteen New Semiconductor Fabs to Start Construction in 2025, SEMI Reports

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MILPITAS, Calif. — January 7, 2025 — The semiconductor industry is expected to start 18 new fab construction projects in 2025*, according to SEMI’s latest quarterly World Fab Forecast report. The new projects include three 200mm and fifteen 300mm facilities, the majority of which are expected to begin operations from 2026 to 2027.
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TSMC’s Rising Costs Squeeze Apple’s A-Series Chip Profits

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Jan. 6, 2025–According to Ben Bajarin, CEO and Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies, the cost of manufacturing Apple’s chips has skyrocketed. The transition from the A7’s 28nm process to the A18 Pro’s cutting-edge 3nm node has seen wafer prices increase from $5,000 to $18,000 per wafer, a nearly fourfold increase.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announce Preliminary Terms with Coherent, SkyWater, and X-Fab to Advance U.S. Supply Chain Security

Dec-11, 2024  — Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce signed three separate preliminary memoranda of terms (PMT) under the CHIPS and Science Act to provide up to $33 million in proposed direct funding to Coherent, up to $16 million in proposed direct funding to

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GlobalFoundries GaN Chip Manufacturing Advances with $9.5 Million U.S. Federal Funding

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt., December 4, 2024 — GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) has received an additional $9.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. government to advance the manufacturing of GF’s essential gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon semiconductors at its facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. The funding moves GF closer to large-scale

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