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The US has plans to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) US$6.6 billion in grants and up to $5 billion in loans to help the company build factories in Arizona. -
The Biden administration has agreed to give intel up to US$8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon.
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Ericsson and Nokia are reportedly expanding their in-house chip design capabilities to better compete in the 5G era.
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Picocom, a semiconductor and software specialist, has launched PC805, a new system-on-chip (SoC) optimised for 5G small cell Open RAN radio units (O-RUs).
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Global semiconductor revenue is projected to decline 3.6% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.
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IBM’s plans to invest US$20 billion in New York’s Hudson Valley region over the next decade has been praised by US President Joe Biden.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has signed a US$30 billion partnership agreement with Intel to fund its under-construction semi-conductor fabrication facility in Chandler, Arizona.
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US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that will see the investment of billions of dollars into the country’s semiconductor industry.
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Soracom, an IoT connectivity provider, confirms that SPRESENSE from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) has joined the Soracom Partner Space ecosystem.
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Intel has revealed the first phase of its plans which will see the company spend approximately €33 billion on the development of the European semiconductor market.
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Intel Corporation (Intel) is to acquire Tower Semiconductor (Tower), an Israeli manufacturer of analogue semiconductor solutions, for approximately $5.4 billion.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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IBM and Samsung Electronics have hailed a breakthrough in semiconductor design using a new vertical transistor architecture.
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The latest opponent to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm is a powerful agency of the US government.
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Tata Group is reportedly in talks with three Indian states to potentially build a $300 million semiconductor assembly and test unit.
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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As the world continues to cope with the global semiconductor shortage, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores the effect of this on the telecommunications industry
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Intel will this Friday break ground on two new chip fabs in Arizona, worth $20 billion, to serve the growing needs of the PC, server, mobile and data centre industries.
