TSMC US factory will produce Blackwell GPUs for Nvidia in 2025.
The Biden administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce will provide up to $75 million in direct subsidies to Absolics, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SKC, and up to $77 million in direct subsidies to Entegris under the incentive program of the CHIPS and Science Act.
According to wccftech, although Intel regards its latest Intel 18A process technology as the key to reversing the company’s decline, the latest news from Korean media shows that the current yield rate of Intel 18A is only 10%, which means that it cannot reach the mass production stage, which also shocked the market.
Intel announced that it has appointed Eric Meurice, former CEO of ASML, and Steve Sanghi, chairman and interim CEO of Microchip Technology, as members of Intel board of directors. Both will serve as independent directors.
Amazon suspends development of Inferentia AI inference chip to focus on Trainium training chip.
Denso and Fuji Electric invest $1.4 billion to develop EV SiC power devices.
STMicroelectronics signs long-term silicon carbide supply agreement with Ampere.
TSMC plans to start mass production at the Kaohsiung factory currently under construction from 2025, and transfer the 2nm technology currently in trial production at the Hsinchu Science Park in the north to the Kaohsiung factory, since the trial production yield of 2nm process products has exceeded 60%.
Musk xAI has raised $6 billion in its latest round of funding. The artificial intelligence startup is said to be valued at more than $40 billion.
