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Intensive Announcements of Acquisitions by Domestic Semiconductor Companies; Wuhan Offers Up to 6 Million Yuan Subsidy for Advanced Processes Below 14nm; Some Memory Chip Prices Rise Over 50%

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Intensive Announcements of Acquisitions by Domestic Semiconductor Companies; Wuhan Offers Up to 6 Million Yuan Subsidy for Advanced Processes Below 14nm; Some Memory Chip Prices Rise Over 50%

March Semiconductor Major Events Monthly IC Events Summary Hot Trends Government Work Report: New Achievements in Integrated Circuits, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technology, and Other Fields in 2024 On the morning of March 5, the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress opened. The government work report pointed out that in 2024, the pace of … Read more

Longxin’s New Processor Successfully Taped Out, Marking a Major Breakthrough for Domestic Chips! 8-Core 2.5GHz Frequency, 30 SPEC Score, Doubling Graphics Performance, AI Computing Power Reaches 8 TOPS

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Longxin's New Processor Successfully Taped Out, Marking a Major Breakthrough for Domestic Chips! 8-Core 2.5GHz Frequency, 30 SPEC Score, Doubling Graphics Performance, AI Computing Power Reaches 8 TOPS

Introduction: A “Chip” Breakthrough After 20 Years of Hard Work In December 2024, Loongson Technology announced the successful tape-out of the 3B6000M processor, featuring an 8-core architecture with a frequency of 2.5GHz and a self-developed GPU, achieving a SPEC score exceeding 30. This data has sent shockwaves through the international semiconductor community, representing a significant … Read more

Huawei’s Latest Self-Developed Chip Has Completed Tape-Out: Fully De-Americanized

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Huawei's Latest Self-Developed Chip Has Completed Tape-Out: Fully De-Americanized

In the panel industry, Chinese companies have already captured half of the LCD market, and OLED panels are rapidly catching up with companies like Samsung and LG. However, in the driver IC sector, the domestic market share is less than 1%. Fortunately, Huawei has also entered the field of developing OLED driver chips and has … Read more

Latest Revenue Rankings of Global NAND Flash Manufacturers

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Latest Revenue Rankings of Global NAND Flash Manufacturers

This article is compiled by Semiconductor Industry Review (ID: ICVIEWS)In the face of the most severe oversupply situation in 2023, industry prices rose nearly 10% in the fourth quarter.According to TrendForce, the NAND Flash industry revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 grew significantly by 24.5% quarter-on-quarter, reaching $11.49 billion. This growth is attributed to … Read more

Decline in NAND Flash Prices Challenges Revenue Growth for Storage Manufacturers

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Decline in NAND Flash Prices Challenges Revenue Growth for Storage Manufacturers

Smartphones are the largest application market for NAND Flash. In 2015, the demand in the high-end market was primarily concentrated on capacities above 32GB, increasingly shifting towards 64GB, which is the main driver of NAND Flash consumption. However, due to the decline in demand for high-end smartphones, the sales of Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge/Note 5 … Read more

Who is Trapped by the ‘Chip Iron Curtain’ Created by the United States?

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Who is Trapped by the 'Chip Iron Curtain' Created by the United States?

With high investment amounts and questionable expected outcomes, who is trapped by the ‘Chip Iron Curtain’ created by the United States? According to a recent report by CNBC, the U.S. government has allowed artificial intelligence computing company NVIDIA to complete the export necessary for the development of its flagship AI chip. On August 31, NVIDIA … Read more

The AI Explosion Will Give Rise to New ‘Species’: New Opportunities for EDA/IP Companies

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The AI Explosion Will Give Rise to New 'Species': New Opportunities for EDA/IP Companies

This year’s IIC Shanghai, while similar in arrangement to previous years with forums on power supply, MCU, EDA/IP, and the China IC Leaders Summit, has a notable difference: everyone is talking about AI. Almost all topics revolve around AI—even discussions related to power supply and testing are intertwined with AI. This is closely related to … Read more

GUC Creative Electronics Announces Successful Tape-Out of the World’s First HBM4 IP

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GUC Creative Electronics Announces Successful Tape-Out of the World's First HBM4 IP

On April 2, GUC Creative Electronics, a Taiwanese chip service company with over one-third ownership by TSMC, announced the successful tape-out of the world’s first HBM4 IP (including controller and PHY physical layer) using TSMC’s advanced N3P process and CoWoS-R advanced packaging. GUC’s HBM4 IP supports data transfer rates of up to 12Gbps. Compared to … Read more

Latest Revenue Rankings of Global NAND Flash Manufacturers | TrendForce

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Latest Revenue Rankings of Global NAND Flash Manufacturers | TrendForce

In the fourth quarter of 2019, demand from data centers was strong, and supplier inventory decreased. In the first quarter of 2020, revenue performance remained flat compared to the previous quarter amidst a situation of reduced volume and increased prices. According to a survey by TrendForce’s Semiconductor Research Center (DRAMeXchange), benefiting from the growth in … Read more

In-Depth: The Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Unisoc’s NAND Flash Team Downsizing

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In-Depth: The Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Unisoc's NAND Flash Team Downsizing

Unisoc has recently found itself in the spotlight again. Amid the severe global pandemic, it successfully overcame challenges and secured a substantial investment of 2.25 billion yuan from a major fund, warming up for its debut on the Science and Technology Innovation Board in 2021. However, at the same time, there are rumors that the … Read more