A significant portion of the Micron fab is bathed in yellow light to protect the light-sensitive coating on the wafers. Chips on the wafers are created using a photographic process. Each of the cameras, which are the machines on each side of the aisle, costs about $70 million. (credit: Micron) Semiconductor supply chains have not […]
Enlarge / President Joe Biden signing a different executive order on January 28, 2021. (credit: Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images) The White House is launching an effort today to ease a global semiconductor supply crunch affecting a wide array of other industries, but any boost the administration can provide is likely to be […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) You may have noticed that it’s difficult to get ahold of new high-end graphics cards and game consoles these days. In large part, that’s due to an ongoing global shortage affecting semiconductor foundries. As it turns out, the problem is even more pronounced in the auto industry. In […]
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. dropped almost 10 percent Wednesday after revealing it is looking into reports regarding the shock resignation of a top executive. China’s biggest chipmaker said it is hoping to attain co-Chief Executive Officer Liang Mong Song later online press outlets circulated a resignation letter that they stated originated with the business veteran. […]
What’s more significant: the corporate advantages of a select number of American businesses, or even the U.S.’s long-term financial security, domestic security, and human rights pursuits? President-elect Biden will have to choose when placing his government’s China policy coverage. While that has been great to their bottom line, it presents a danger to America’s domestic […]
Europe currently has a large semiconductor sector with special strengths in areas like smartcards and detectors, however it’s still modest compared with people from the U.S., South Korea and Taiwan–European businesses hold only a tenth of the $530 billion worldwide semiconductor industry. Thus, in one single joint announcement issued Mondaythat the EU states said they’d […]