GaN Foundry Landscape Shifts: TSMC Exits, Infineon Advances
As one of the third-generation semiconductor materials, gallium nitride (GaN) is accelerating its penetration into high-growth areas such as power electronics, data centers, and new energy vehicles, thanks to its high electron mobility, large breakdown voltage, and fast frequency response. Howe...
Lifting of Restrictions: The Big Three EDA Companies Resume Supply
Since October 2022, the United States, citing "national security" reasons, has begun to significantly tighten export controls on high-end chips and key equipment to China, focusing on three major areas: artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and advanced manufacturing. In May...
Samsung's Acquisition of Intel's Semiconductor Patent Rights
In the fiercely competitive global semiconductor industry, competition among companies is not only about the performance of products and the share of the market but also a battle over intellectual property rights. Intel, a veteran giant in the semiconductor sector, has been undergoing strategic...
LG Display Evaluates Photolithography OLED Technology
In the display technology sector, OLED technology has always been a focal point for research and development as well as competition among major panel manufacturers due to its excellent display performance and broad application prospects. Recently, LG Display's plan to evaluate photolithography O...
Microsoft's 400 Million Windows User Exodus: A Deep Dives
Microsoft's Windows operating system, as one of the most widely used operating systems globally, has always been a focal point in the industry for its user base changes. According to a blog post by Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's Executive Vice President, there are currently over 1 billion active d...
OpenAI Adopts Google TPU, Adjusts Compute Strategy
According to foreign media reports, OpenAI has recently begun to rent Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to provide computing power support for its products such as ChatGPT. Previously, OpenAI had long relied on NVIDIA GPUs for model training and inference computing, with NVIDIA chips ...
Western Digital's Patent Defeat: $553M Fine Cut to $1
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has made a significant ruling adjustment in the patent infringement lawsuit between Western Digital Corporation (referred to as WD) and SPEX Technologies. The lawsuit originated from WD's alleged infringement of SPEX's patent num...
