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3 February Almost twenty European countries want a 2nm fab built in Europe. Impossible, you say? Future Horizons analyst Malcolm Penn doesn’t think so. Europe is dusting off its ambitions in advanced semiconductor manufacturing once again. After several attempts in the past, nineteen EU member states recently signed a joint declaration to collaborate on “strengthening Europe’s capacity to develop the next generation of processors and semiconductors. This includes chips and embedded systems that offer the best performance for specific applications across a wide range of sectors as well a...

N JANUARY 13 TH Honda, a Japanese carmaker, said it had to shut its factory in Swindon, a town in southern England, for a while. Not because of Brexit, or workers sick with covid-19. The reason was a shortage of microchips. Other car firms are suffering, too. Volkswagen, which produces more vehicles than any other firm, has said it will make 100,000 fewer this quarter as a result. Like just about everything else these days—from banks to combine harvesters—cars cannot run without computers. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. The chipmaking industry is boomin...

January 20, 2021 // By Peter Clarke A rebound in global markets and sold-out IC manufacturing capacity will drive up chip prices and shortages in 2021 says Malcom Penn of Future Horizons. Analyst Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons is predicting high prices and chip shortages in 2021 with a semiconductor capacity crunch as the market is set to grow significantly by 18 percent.  Chip supply is effectively sold out for the whole of 2021 as little new capacity will come online before 2022, he says, something that automobile makers are finding to their cost. Penn has consis...

(12/16/2020) Dorothy Twesme, retired Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau (G-E-T) English teacher and librarian, has named the Old Main Historical and Community Arts Center in Galesville in her will to receive a bequest that will fund the “Twesme Family Past and Future Horizons Award” to a graduating high school senior who writes a paper that encourages reading about the past to envision the future. The paper will recall that George Gale — who founded Galesville, Galesville University, and Trempealeau County — read Sir Walter Scott’s nine volume autobiography at age 16 and continued...