Could a little league baseball team win the World Series in five years? Japan’s state-backed chip startup Rapidus has a similarly long-shot ambition. In a country that currently produces 40 nanometer semiconductors, the two-year-old venture has the goal of leapfrogging generations of innovation and producing bleeding-edge 2 nanometer chips in 2027. It would be easy … Read more
Tech giant Nvidia is now worth over $3.2 trillion, with its dominance as a chipmaker making it the poster child of the artificial intelligence boom. After the stock’s swift rise on Wall Street it briefly topped Microsoft as the most valuable company in the S&P 500 this week. The company is now worth over $3.2 … Read more
A day after it withdrew from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with mining baron Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Ltd, Foxconn said it plans to apply for incentives that India is offering under its semiconductor manufacturing policy. “Foxconn is committed to India and sees the country successfully establishing a robust semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Foxconn is working … Read more
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co on Tuesday indicated it has no plan to cut investment in chips this year, even as a weak global economy condemns the industry to its worst downturn in over a decade. The guidance bucks a broader industry trend to scale back spending and output, fanning concern that the world’s biggest … Read more
Now consumers and businesses are holding off on big purchases as they cope with inflation and rising interest rates. This time was supposed to be different. The memory-chip sector, famous for its boom-and-bust cycles, had changed its ways. A combination of more disciplined management and new markets for its products — including 5G technology and … Read more
Putting in big long term targets is in fancy and Vedanta is not the one to be left behind. Addressing shareholders at the company’s 57th AGM, Anil Agarwal, the chairman has set the target of $100 bn, i.e., approx Rs 8 lakh crore revenues by 2030. Company reported revenues of Rs 1.33 lakh crore in … Read more
Chip shortage is leading new facilities coming up globally. Now Vedanta and Foxconn have joined together to set up one in India. Key points to note – A new JV has been set up where Vedanta will hold majority and Hon Hai Technology Group (also known as Foxconn) will hold minority. Quantum of investment, entity … Read more
Worldwide semiconductor revenue increased 25.1 per cent in 2021 to total $583.5 billion, crossing the $500 billion threshold for the first time, a Gartner report showed on Monday. Samsung Electronics regained the top spot from Intel for the first time since 2018, with revenue increasing 31.6 per cent in 2021. Its memory revenue grew 34.2 … Read more