Uncategorized Archives - The Next Silicon Valley

Next in Engineering: How chip designers tap Generative AI

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Richard Wallace |

A research paper released last month describes ways generative AI can assist one of the most complex engineering efforts: designing semiconductors. The work demonstrates how companies in highly specialized fields can train large language models (LLMs) on their internal data…

China to build, not buy, AI chips; bypass lithography

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Richard Wallace |

Chinese scientists are reportedly considering constructing massive facilities to manufacture the technology necessary to create AI semiconductor chips locally. Under the plan, particle accelerators would replace the role of the lithography machine in the steps to produce semiconductor chips for…

Taiwan: Blowin’ in the Wind?

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Richard Wallace |

How many ‘Silicon Shields’ will it take to save Taiwan – and the global semiconductor industry – from destruction? The answer is blowing in the wind. Citadel’s founder Ken Griffin warns the US economy will enter an immediate ‘great depression’…

China’s Chip Makers Feel Bite of Export Controls

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Richard Wallace |

Chinese semiconductor makers are feeling the bite of U.S. chip export controls as flocks of foreign nationals depart the country as the industry asses the situation. According to a report on this morning’s Financial Times ASML has told its US staff to…

Intel picks Vigasio, Italy for factory investment

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Richard Wallace |

Vigasio, near Verona, in Italy’s north east region of Veneto will be to the site of Intel’s new European packaging plant according to Reuters. The plant will cost €4.5 billion and is expected to employ 1,500 direct jobs and create…

Technology’s Trainweck: chip, circuit board, and electronic component deficits

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Richard Wallace |

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/apple-chip-woes-will-end-but-us-china-supply-chain-war-just-starting-.html Apple chip shortage will end, but U.S.-China supply chain ‘train wreck’ is coming Published Fri, Oct 29 202110:13 AM EDTUpdated Fri, Oct 29 20214:01 PM EDT Eric Rosenbaum@erprose Share Key Points Apple said on Thursday it lost the…

GlobalFoundries: “no truth” to reports Tech Valley chip maker on the block

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

GlobalFoundries has denied recently circulated industry reports that its semiconductor manufacturing operations, including two 300mm fabs in New York’s Tech Valley, are up for sale. According to a GlobalFoundries spokesperson, quoted by the publication extremetech.com, “there is ‘no truth’ to…

Winter in Silicon Valley, China Sizzles

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Photo: China is building a particle collider almost four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and it is expected to produce over one million Higgs boson particles in its first decade of operation. Where’s the Next Silicon…

GlobalFoundries New York: For Sale?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

GlobalFoundries chipmaking operation in New York – the one taking a pass on the 7nm semiconductor manufacturing process node – is up for sale according to industry source ComputerBasereport. “A few days before the tenth anniversary, it is clear that…

Student entrepreneurs swap classrooms for startup

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Have you ever wondered what’s driving today’s tech startup funding curve on the university campus? Two words: Student entrepreneurship. Some of the greatest technology companies in Silicon Valley’s were launched by the classroom-to-startup method now popular at tech school and…