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YMTC 128 Layer NAND is the first semiconductor where China is technologically competitive with the leading edge firms from the Western sphere of influence.
Yields are improving and the 2nd fab is being filled with equipment. Once that milestone is reached, the 3rd and 4th fab will be built simultaneously.
Kulicke and Soffa Industries is continuing to outperform on the back of the wire bonder business. Additionally, they are emerging as a leading supplier in tools used for mini-LED, micro-LED, and battery manufacturing.
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Apple’s leading CPU team looks to be struggling as they have now delivered no CPU gains for the first generation ever. Apple likely had to delay their next core architecture due due to personnel overturn from the Nuvia exodus. Furthermore, with a new exodus surrounding Rivos, the future doesn’t look so bright. Apple currently has the best client CPU cores, but can they hold this lead against stronger competition from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm?
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Applied Materials panel level packaging enabled advanced fan outs the as large as 600mm by 600mm. It can deposit layers as thin as 10um, and supports embedded die in substrate technologies like Intel’s EMIB or TSMC’s LSI
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No, The iPhone 13 Does Not Have Satellite Internet | Band n53 & Globalstar Explained
Globalstar Sat’s useful life ends 2025-2028 and their future revenue is mostly from terrestrial spectrum licensing!
The stock shouldn’t be up 90%.
NXP Semiconductor CFO sells nearly 70% of his shares as Samsung acquisition rumored to fall apart!
Kelly Peter sold 142,311 of his 203,749 shares.
Maybe there is another, completely justifiable reason he needed $32M all at once, but SemiAnalysis did not find one.
SemiAnalysis believes this will be the first truly high-performance RISC V design! We are still not sure what their business model is. Licensing, datacenter, mobile, or building until they are acquired by a larger firm all could be viable. Regardless, there seems to be a new, aggressive startup on the block, but this time in the RISC V flavor!
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Arm China has gone completely rogue, operating as an independent company with their own IP and R&D. This is the semiconductor heist of the century. There are many questions swirling about what this means for a potential Nvidia takeover or IPO, but it is clear that SoftBank’s short sighted profit driven behavior has caused a massive conundrum.
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Tesla’s Dojo chip and supercomputer have mouth salivating specifications and capabilities, but cost, custom interconnects, memory constraints, lack of software, and the fact that this chip is 2022 or beyond is something we have to keep in mind. SemiAnalysis investigates these while also exploring the partnerships with traditional semiconductor firms.
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Tesla has flipped the hardware world on its head by creating a chip with GPU levels of compute, more than the highest end networking chips IO, and high levels of flexibility. They utilize a integrated fan out system on wafer that achieves better scale up and scale out performance than Nvidia, Graphcore, Cerebras, Groq, Tenstorrent, SambaNova, or any other AI training startup.
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