Wafer fabrication facilities, commonly known as wafer fabs, are the backbone of the semiconductor industry. These highly specialized factories process silicon wafers into integrated circuits (ICs) used in nearly every electronic device today. Let’s take a closer look at the global distribution and
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced an important step in its transformation, continuing the trajectory launched with the appointment of Tom Caulfield as CEO earlier this year. In line with the strategic direction Caulfield has articulated, GF is reshaping its technology portfolio to intensify its focus on delivering truly differentiated offerings for clients
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Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced that it is leveraging Samsung FinFET platforms to extend its ASIC design solutions in next-generation applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G/infrastructure networking, blockchain, cloud storage, high-performance computing (HPC), AR & VR, and high-end imaging.
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Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced a collaboration with IBM to apply design technology co-optimization (DTCO) to the pathfinding of new semiconductor process technologies for the 3-nanometer (nm) process node and beyond. DTCO is a methodology for efficiently evaluating and down-selecting new transistor architectures, materials and other process technology innovations
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Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., Aug 5, 2018 – TSMC today provided an update on the Company’s computer virus outbreak on the evening of August 3, which affected a number of computer systems and fab tools in Taiwan. The degree of infection varied by fab. TSMC contained the problem and found a solution.
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IC Insights will release its 200+ page Mid-Year Update to the 2018 McClean Report next month. The Mid-Year Update will revise IC Insights’ worldwide economic and IC industry forecasts through 2022 that were originally presented in the 2018 McClean Report issued in January of this year.
Figure 1 shows that IC Insights forecasts that China-headquartered companies will spend