Day: February 22, 2023

Rapidus 2nm fab plan exposed, Japan or the birth of the first 2nm fab

Rapidus was created with a $510 million subsidy from the Japanese government and donations from Toyota, Sony, Kioxia, NEC, NTT, SoftBank, and Denso, with $6.8 million invested by each company. According to TV Tokyo, Japan’s Rapidus is considering building its first manufacturing plant in Hokkaido, northern Japan.Rapidus is a joint venture led by technology companies […]

Improve supply chain management: IoT roaming and eSIM can help improve logistics efficiency

The global eSIM market will grow from $4.7 billion in 2023 to $16.3 billion by 2027, with a staggering 249% growth rate during the period, and the market will be driven by eSIM-enabled consumer devices. Mobile phone international roaming has been around for many years. Since the advent of GSM (Second Generation Cellular Radio) in […]

GF and Ankor announced a strategic partnership to build a large-scale packaging project in Europe

GF’s official website recently announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, the largest semiconductor packaging and test service provider in the United States. GF plans to move its 12-inch wafer-level packaging production line from its Dresden facility to Amco’s facility in Porto, Portugal, to build the first large-scale back-end facility in Europe. GF said the […]

Microchip plans to invest in expanding silicon carbide production capacity in the U.S., with manufacturing technology involving 8-inch wafer applications

An important phase of the new investment expansion is the development and upgrading of its 50-acre, 580,000-square-foot Colorado Springs campus to increase SiC manufacturing for automotive/electric vehicles, grid infrastructure, green energy, and aerospace and defense applications. Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) today announced plans to invest $880 million in its Colorado Springs manufacturing facility in […]

In 2023, sales of new energy vehicles will increase by 30% per year, and 40% of the cost will come from batteries

Fuel vehicles are driven by the heat energy generated by gasoline combustion into kinetic energy, electric vehicles mainly rely on batteries to drive motors, broadly speaking, as long as the use of “electric” to drive the car, can be called electric vehicles (EV), which will further increase the dependence on electronic components, and then drive […]