Intel has reached an agreement to repurchase the 49% stake in its Ireland-based Fab 34 joint venture currently held by Apollo. The deal is valued at $14.2 billion and marks a shift in Intel’s capital strategy as the company strengthens its financial position and doubles down on its long-term manufacturing plans.
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In a modern System-on-Chip (SoC) design, engineers tend to focus on the headline features—NPUs, high-speed SerDes, and multi-core CPU clusters. These are the components that usually get all the attention. But the reliability of these billion-transistor systems often depends on a much simpler and frequently overlooked block: the Reset Controller.
An SoC is only
27-March-2027 —GlobalFoundries (GF) has initiated legal action against Tower Semiconductor, filing complaints in both the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
The lawsuits allege that Tower has infringed multiple GF patents and is effectively leveraging decades of GF’s research and development without authorization. According
March 26, 2026 – LEUVEN (Belgium)— Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in advanced semiconductor technologies, proudly announces Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, as the recipient of the 2026 imec Lifetime of Innovation Award. With the award, imec recognizes Huang’s instrumental role in enabling accelerated computing technologies and empowering critical AI applications across industries –
[2026-02-23] ASICLAND, a specialized provider of custom semiconductor design solutions led by CEO Jongmin Lee, announced on the 23rd that it has signed a new semiconductor design and supply agreement with BrainChip, the world’s first company to commercialize neuromorphic processors and a global AI semiconductor leader.
The agreement covers the development of BrainChip’s second-generation
【Hsinchu, Taiwan】 March 24, 2026 — Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today highlighted its 40uLP SONOS embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) solution, offering MCU vendors a cost-efficient alternative to NOR Flash while ensuring stable memory supply for long-lifecycle applications.
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