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May 11, 2021

The global chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences
The severity of the global chip shortage has gone up a notch over the last few weeks and it's now looking as though millions of people will be impacted. As technology ...
CNBC

New Fab Plans: the Plot Thickens
IBM (particularly the marketing team) deserves a healthy dose of congratulations for its announcement this week of a 2 nm test chip. The news was picked up far and ...
EE Times

Hermetic Package Process Development
MCL Hermetic Package process services include development of gross and fine leak testing for packages with large glass feedthroughs.
Technical Paper

Crisis in chip industry
Samsung Electronics said it posted 19.01 trillion won ($16.9 billion) in consolidated semiconductor revenue and 3.37 trillion won in operating profit in the first quarter. ...
The Korea Herald

U.S. Commerce chief planning meeting on chip shortage
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo plans to hold a May 20 meeting with senior U.S. auto industry leaders and others on a semiconductor shortage that has cut ...
Reuters

Technical Papers

Hermetic Package Process Development

Justifying the Purchase of Die or Wire Bonding Equipment

Die-to-wafer Bonding Accelerates Heterogeneous Integration (HI)

Advantages of Outsourced Test Services

Semiconductor Device Innovation Driving Automotive Advances

Non-Surface Contact Approach For Device Flip

BGA Socket Considerations - Prototype to Reality

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Taiwan says will work with EU, other democracies on chips
Taiwan will work with the European Union and other democracies to ensure a more "resilient supply" of crucial goods like semiconductors, President Tsai Ing-wen ...
Reuters

BMW head expects chip shortage to be resolved
BMW AG expects the global shortage of semiconductors hindering auto production to be resolved, as companies and governments zero-in on the issue. "There's intense ...
Taipei Times

TSMC April sales down over 13% from March
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, said that its sales for April fell more than 13% from a month earlier, with ...
Focus Taiwan

Google Snaps Up Network-on-Chip Startup Provino
Google has quietly acquired Provino Technologies, a start-up developing network-on-chip (NoC) systems for machine learning, an IEEE Spectrum investigation has ...
IEEE Spectrum

China struggling with semiconductor self-sufficiency
China is encountering difficulties in its quest to become self-sufficient in the production of semiconductors, according to a new survey. In a survey carried out by Nikkei ...
Taiwan News

TSMC, UMC and VIS post on-month revenue drops
Pure-play foundries TSMC, United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have reported sequential decreases in April revenues ...
Digitimes

Manufacturing Bits: May 10
The University of Hong Kong and Northwestern University have developed an organic electrochemical synaptic transistor, a technology that could one day process ...
Semiconductor Engineering

China sets eyes on advanced chip production
China's semiconductor industry is speeding up its development of advanced chips as the homegrown 28 nanometer (nm) process is set to enter mass production this ...
China.org.cn

Chip shortage in focus as Japan automakers ready to report profit drop
While Japan's biggest automakers report what analysts expect to be depressed earnings this week, investors looking for trading cues will be tuned into any assessment ...
Reuters

JCET raises CNY5 billion via private placement
Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET) has raised an additional CNY5 billion (US$777.4 million) in paid-in capital through private placement. Participants ...
Digitimes

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