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Friday 21 June 2024
RISC-V's rapid growth and hurdles ahead: US-China tech tensions and ecosystem fragmentation
RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture, has garnered global attention due to its royalty-free nature and adaptability for custom hardware development.
Tuesday 18 June 2024
Nvidia and AMD are winners of the 4 million units per year high-end GPU chip business
Nvidia dominates the market for AI chips for training and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) and its pricing power is reflected in gross margins as high as 78%, compared to competitors...
Monday 17 June 2024
HBM competition (3): the likely changes in the industry ecosystem
Before we discuss the possible impact of HBM4 standard interface on the DRAM industry, we need to review the current status of the DRAM industry.
Monday 17 June 2024
Partnership with Google TPU is logical choice for Apple to fuel computing power demand of Apple Intelligence
According to a recent Reuters report, Apple's "Apple Intelligence" technology has been rumored to use Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerators for early-stage training,...
Thursday 13 June 2024
Apple doesn't want OpenAI partnership to overshadow Apple Intelligence
At WWDC 2024, Apple announced "Apple Intelligence," adding its own branding to the terminology of artificial intelligence (AI).
Thursday 13 June 2024
HBM competition (2): The choice of HBM's next steps?
It is important to know how individual memory companies choose to develop their High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology for future competitions.
Friday 7 June 2024
China Resources' acquisition of JCET shares is killing two birds with one stone
In March, China Resources announced the stunning news of acquiring SMIC's shares of JCET Group, a packaging and testing firm invested by China's National IC Industry Investment Fund...
Thursday 6 June 2024
Intel's Lunar Lake rescued by TSMC 3nm process?
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's keynote at COMPUTEX 2024, specifically mentioned the collaboration with TSMC, which allowed Intel to realize the mass production of Lunar Lake in advancing...
Thursday 6 June 2024
How hard to snatch 2nm foundry orders from TSMC?
Semiconductor foundry companies have started to compete in the 2nm process shortly after their 3nm production lines started humming to mass produce for customers. There is something...
Wednesday 5 June 2024
For Big Fund Phase 3, the devil is in the funding structure details
The long-rumored third phase of China's national semiconductor fund, commonly known as "the Big Fund," has finally been officially announced. The fund scale of CNY344 billion (US$47.5...
Wednesday 5 June 2024
How Taiwan is related to Nvidia's rise to stardom in the AI Era

Nvidia, founded in 1993, has established itself as a leading player in the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) market.

Monday 3 June 2024
Why China needs US$47.5 billion for Big Fund Phase 3 when chip oversupply is already a concern?
Announcing a US$47.5 billion funding for Phase 3 of the National IC Industry Investment Fund (the "Big Fund"), China's next move is under the eye of global chip players.
Thursday 30 May 2024
HBM competition (1): advanced packaging technology divergence explained
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a graphic memory with high bandwidth. Its main function is to support High-Performance Computing (HPC) or high-speed parallel computing with CPU/GPU...
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Semiconductor industry co-opetition between Taiwan and South Korea
The semiconductor industry is the lifeblood of South Korea, a country that heavily depends on its exports. In 2023, South Korea exported US$131 billion of semiconductors and imported...
Tuesday 28 May 2024
China can break through US EUV ban with mature-node innovation, but how?
China's Huawei claims to have successfully achieved domestic substitution of using its self-developed 7nm and 5nm chips in its smartphones and has boosted market standings of HiSilicon...