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Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is expected to post a 5% fall in first-quarter net profit on Thursday, with global economic woes denting demand for semiconductors used in everything from cars to advanced... | April 17, 2023

Japan is attempting to revitalize its chipmaking sector and strengthen related industry supply chains. Its current focus is on logic ICs. As a result of this strategy, two new chipmaking industry clusters in Japan will be taking shape: one in Kumamoto Prefecture, central Kyushu, and the other in Chitose City, Hokkaido, according to industry observers.

System-level testing demand for advanced ICs has been rising. Foundries including TSMC, Intel and Samsung Electronics, as well as OSATs such as ASE Technology, are already involved, according to industry sources.

Computex 2023 is taking place in Taipei from May 30 to June 2 and NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang will deliver the keynote address.

Highlights: Enables customers to effectively leverage the Cadence Pegasus Verification System and TSMC technology on the Microsoft Azure cloud with the Cadence CloudBurst Platform Initial... | April 17, 2023

ASML reportedly has seen the first cutback in orders for EUV equipment from TSMC, its largest customer, which market insiders speculate is on track to slash such orders by over 40% or otherwise delay taking shipments from the Dutch supplier along with its slowing fab capacity expansions in Taiwan. TSMC, however, said it wont respond to market speculations.

Lockheed Martin secures $172.1 million contract modification to increase manufacturing capacity and retrofit F-35 aircraft with advanced hardware and system modifications.

The CM4043hh is a low power, high-accuracy, output glitch-free, wide supply voltage range, general purpose 2MHz oscillator. It achieves ± 1% accuracy ...

Both Samsung Electronics and Intel are having difficulty obtaining orders for 3nm as well as sub-3nm chips, while TSMC continues to grow its client base in the process segment, according to industry sources.

With TSMC also reportedly to slow down capacity expansions in Taiwan, IC design houses will find it even more difficult to expect a downturn in their chips foundry costs, according to industry sources.