semiconductors
AMD continues its astonishing return from the grave...
Intel still has over $22 billion to spend this year...
Move follows watershed RISC-V partnership.
Proposals only allocate €11bn in EU funds but open door to more state aid, as EU Chips Act aims to secure 20% of semiconductor production in the bloc by 2030.
Covid in China and a fire in Berlin trouble markets however
Seeking a new gas boiler for The Stack’s bracingly cold HQ, we were told this week that the model sought was unavailable. Why? A global semiconductor shortage that has caused shortages in unexpected industries, quoth the gasman. Boilers increasingly use wireless control units that, like most things digital, require
China’s Alibaba -- the $109 billion by annual revenue multinational – has revealed a new 5nm Arm-based server chip for use in its data centers in a major step towards more silicon self sufficiency. (While the company has designed the Yitian 710 CPU itself, it does not have 5nm fabbing
New Apple silicon packs serious firepower...
Ford said it will lose "about 50% of our planned volume in the second quarter" as a result