Sharp is to spin off its semiconductor business, reports The Japan Times. The spin-off, which is designed to speed up management decision-making, enable outside investment and facilitate external partnerships could happen as early as April. The spin-off will see the semi business split into two wholly-owned subsidiary companies one for chips and sensors and the ...
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HiSilicon, Huawei’s chip subsidiary, will be the first customer to use a TSMC process using EUV, reports China’s Commercial Times. The process labelled N7 Plus, is due for production in Q1 2019. A follow-up process using EUV, N5, is due for production in 2020. Huawei is TSMC’s second largest customer after Apple. TSMC is expected ...
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President Trump is considering an executive order upping the stakes in the US-China trade war, reports Reuters. The order would ban all US companies from buying switchgear from Huawei and ZTE. Since Huawei equipment is said to cost a quarter of Ericsson equipment, this would hit US companies, especially smaller ones in rural areas, very ...
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Intel is to get a $185 million grant for expanding its Kiryat Gat fab in Israel. Earlier this year, Intel submitted plans for the expansion which will cost $5 billion and add 250 employees at the site. Intel also undertook to make local purchases worth $500 million. Earlier this month, Intel said it had begun ...
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Huawei reckons it could be the world No.1 smartphone vendor in 2019. “In the global smartphone market, Huawei has gone from being dismissed as a statistical ‘Other’ to ranking among the top 3 players in the world,” says the company, “in Q4 next year, it’s possible we become No. 1” The company says it sold ...
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