US and allies continue to chip away at Chinese tech sector
US semiconductor trade sanctions against China seem to be having an effect, but at what cost to its own companies?
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China inevitably bans US chip company Micron
China has decided that two can play at the game of sanctioning the companies of its geopolitical rivals on vague national security grounds.
UK earmarks £1 billion for chip R&D
The UK government plans to support the semiconductor industry with new funds and a partnership with Japan.
US reportedly pressures South Korea over memory chip sales to China
It looks like the US is calling in even more favours among its allies in its bid to cripple China’s technology capabilities.
EdgeQ gets $75m funding to disrupt Open RAN
As it closes a big round of funding, Telecoms.com caught up with startup EdgeQ about its Intel-rivalling ‘base station-on-a-chip’ product, which it’s hoping will shake up the telecoms sector.
Qualcomm launches a bunch of IoT chips
Building on the launch of its Aware platform, US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has fleshed out its IoT proposition with no less than four new SoCs.
Samsung makes its ultra-wideband move
Korean electronics giant Samsung wants a piece of the precise positioning market.
Qualcomm lines up OEMs for satellite smartphones
The trickle of satellite-capable smartphones looks set to become a flood if MWC is anything to go by.
Intel launches new vRAN kit and claims market dominance
Intel has launched a new chip with integrated acceleration for vRAN networks, a move that it clearly hopes will help it maintain a massive presence in the growing market for virtualised radio networks.
TSMC is building a second chip fab in Arizona as part of $40 billion commitment
The world’s leading contract chip maker Taiwan based TSMC has started building a second fab in Arizona, investing $40 billion collectively for the two facilities and beefing up the US domestic semiconductor sector.
Government tries to think of ways to accelerate the UK’s chip production
A new ‘national institution’ could be set up as part of plans to boost the UK’s semiconductor industry.
Qualcomm cuts outlook amid smartphone market misery
Compounding the doom and gloom in the global smartphone market, Qualcomm this week issued a particularly pessimistic outlook for the rest of the year.
Qualcomm and Vodafone buddy up to develop 5G Open RAN infrastructure
US chip designer Qualcomm and UK operator group Vodafone are collaborating on high-performance, energy efficient 5G vDU and Massive MIMO RU solutions.
Chip sector further damaged by latest US restrictions
A new raft of US export restrictions aimed at hobbling the Chinese tech sector seem likely to make things more difficult for everyone.
We need more chip capacity ‘basically everywhere on the planet’
In the second part of our interview with Dell, Dennis Hoffman, SVP and GM, Dell Technologies Telecom Systems Business talk about AI, the supply chain crisis, and how the pandemic has changed working culture for good.
US government slaps Nvidia and AMD with new Russian and Chinese export ban
Chip manufacturer Nvidia has revealed through an SEC filing that the US government has ordered it to stop exporting certain GPUs used in AI to China and Russia.
Intel announces $30 billion chip investment drive
American chip maker Intel has entered into a partnership with investment firm Brookfield to jointly fund the expansion of semiconductor manufacturing centres in the US.
Samsung to pour KRW 20 trillion into new chip R&D centre
South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung will invest KRW 20 trillion (around $16 billion) into a new semiconductor research and development complex in Giheung, Korea.
The US seems to be failing in its bid to cripple China’s high-tech capability
A recent report indicates China’s biggest chipmaker is making rapid progress despite having been on the US entity list since 2020.
GlobalFoundries celebrates US vote to push through CHIPS act
After US legislation that would provide funding for its chip industry passed its first hurdle, chip-maker GlobalFoundries said ‘now our country needs the Senate, House of Representatives and White House to make a final push.’
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