Intel announced that it would add $1 billion in capital expenditures to release some pressure from its network of factories, which have been struggling to meet booming demand for chips powering personal computers and data centers. In the meantime...
The microcontroller market is growing as the number of applications that need them expands, IC Insights reports. Shipments of these devices, which enable everything from a car’s windshield wipers to a factory’s...
Over the last two years, a shortage of memory chips used in everything from smartphones to automobiles has propped up prices higher and higher. That has transformed Samsung Electronics into the largest supplier of semiconductors by revenue...
Silicon photonics has long been an almost-there technology. Holding it back is a shortage of software tools that allow silicon photonics to be designed the same way as traditional integrated circuits. Today, building silicon photonics is a slow...
Last month, Gary Dickerson, chief executive officer of Applied Materials and former chief operating officer of KLA-Tencor, admitted that some customers were holding off spending to find out whether they needed more chip production to meet...
Last week, Apple announced that its latest line of smartphones would contain a 6.9 billion-transistor chip based on 7-nanometer manufacturing technology, the most advanced process available. But the performance of the new processor, the A12...
