Malaysia to build massive chip design park: PM
Malaysia's leader on Monday announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the Southeast Asian nation's role in the global chip industry.
Apr 22, 2024
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Malaysia's leader on Monday announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the Southeast Asian nation's role in the global chip industry.
Apr 22, 2024
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Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC announced Thursday a nearly 9 percent increase in net profits in the first quarter of 2024, buoyed by global demand for its microchips used to power everything from mobile phones to AI technology.
Apr 18, 2024
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A high-profile aerospace and defense contractor and a semiconductor company are among the latest tech firms to chop jobs in the Bay Area, cutbacks that will erase more than 200 positions.
Apr 17, 2024
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The Taiwan chip giant TSMC has agreed to build a third semiconductor factory in Arizona, raising its total investment in the United States to $65 billion, US officials said Monday.
Apr 8, 2024
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The United States plans to award giant chipmaker GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion in direct funding to boost domestic chip production, the Commerce Department said on Monday.
Feb 19, 2024
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TSMC will build a second foundry in Japan, the semiconductor giant and its local partners announced Tuesday, weeks before its first in the country officially opens.
Feb 6, 2024
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Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC saw a nearly 20 percent drop in net profits in the fourth quarter of 2023, it announced Thursday.
Jan 18, 2024
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The chairman of Taiwan's semiconductor giant TSMC, Mark Liu, will retire from the company next year, the firm announced Tuesday.
Dec 19, 2023
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The leaders of South Korea and the Netherlands vowed Wednesday to bolster co-operation in the critical semiconductor sector, amid growing tensions between China and the West over the technology.
Dec 13, 2023
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Dutch tech giant ASML and Samsung Tuesday signed a deal worth around 700 million euros to build a semiconductor research plant in South Korea, as President Yoon Suk Yeol wrapped up day one of a technology-focused visit.
Dec 12, 2023
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A semiconductor is a material that has a resistivity value between that of a conductor and an insulator. The conductivity of a semiconductor material can be varied under an external electrical field. Devices made from semiconductor materials are the foundation of modern electronics, including radio, computers, telephones, and many other devices. Semiconductor devices include the transistor, solar cells, many kinds of diodes including the light-emitting diode, the silicon controlled rectifier, and digital and analog integrated circuits. Solar photovoltaic panels are large semiconductor devices that directly convert light energy into electrical energy. In a metallic conductor, current is carried by the flow of electrons. In semiconductors, current can be carried either by the flow of electrons or by the flow of positively-charged "holes" in the electron structure of the material.
Silicon is used to create most semiconductors commercially. Dozens of other materials are used, including germanium, gallium arsenide, and silicon carbide. A pure semiconductor is often called an “intrinsic” semiconductor. The conductivity, or ability to conduct, of semiconductor material can be drastically changed by adding other elements, called “impurities” to the melted intrinsic material and then allowing the melt to solidify into a new and different crystal. This process is called "doping".
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