Chips are down as China semiconductor plant goes belly-up
China’s ambitions to become self-sufficient in the production of chipsets have been dealt a serious blow with the closure of a state-backed semiconductor plant.
China’s ambitions to become self-sufficient in the production of chipsets have been dealt a serious blow with the closure of a state-backed semiconductor plant.
New US President Biden is reportedly working on an executive order designed to make various US supply chains less reliant on China.
It turns out that when governments muck about with markets there are sometimes unintended consequences.
Qualcomm recently conceded a general shortage of supply across the entire semiconductor industry as a V-shaped recovery and possible hoarding by Huawei increased demand.
Japanese automotive electronics giant Renesas is spending big on UK-based Dialog Semiconductor, which specialises in low power embedded chips.
Nuvia was founded by former Apple chip engineers and it’s in legal dispute with one of them, so Apple must be especially delighted it’s being acquired by Qualcomm.
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf is calling it a day in June and will be succeeded by the man so seems to be already running the company anyway.
Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has started designing its own processors to be used in cloud systems and Surface computers, reducing its reliance on Intel.
Qualcomm has told Reuters it has received licenses from the US authorities to supply Huawei with a bunch of products.
Gadget giant Apple has launched its first Macs using a souped-up version of its mobile chip instead of Intel ones.
Chip giant Qualcomm reported strong quarterly and annual revenues, and profits, on the back of strong market enthusiasm for 5G products.
US chip giant Intel is finally gaining some telecoms credibility, having been picked as a partner for Dish’s greenfield 5G network.
The US embargo has made it almost impossible for Huawei to buy chips, so it has no alternative but to develop the capability to make them for itself.
US semiconductor company AMD has decided to roll the mega-merger dice once more with the acquisition of Xilinx, which will bring it into contact with the telecoms sector.
Embattled Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has overcome the odds to debut the latest and greatest version of its Kirin SoC in the new Mate 40 Pro smartphone.
US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has launched a new portfolio of chips that take aim at the 5G radio access network market.
Embattled Chinese vendor Huawei is apparently having to consider drastic measures thanks to US restrictions on its supply chain.
It looks like the US is imposing export restrictions on Chinese chip fab SMIC, which could be the last straw that tips China into a full-blown political response.
The spectacle of one Chinese company requiring US permission to do business with another Chinese company perfectly illustrates the paradox of globalisation.
Performance chip maker Nvidia wants to buy chip designer Arm, but with many of Nvidia’s direct competitors also Arm customers it’s hard to see how the deal could be approved.
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