semiconductor manufacturing

The semiconductor foundry is becoming responsible for far more than printing transistors onto wafers. For the AI accelerators, servers and eventually PCs that depend on them, the decisive manufacturing capability is increasingly the ability to combine a leading-edge logic process, high-bandwidth...

Qnity Electronics is pairing University of Delaware engineering students with its technical leaders and opening a pilot work-study program, turning a local university relationship into a direct pipeline for semiconductor manufacturing talent and automation work. As reported by Manufacturing...

Micron Technology’s Sanand, Gujarat facility has begun commercial production and shipped its first made-in-India memory modules, marking a new stage for India’s semiconductor ambitions—and a potentially meaningful supply-chain development for PC makers serving the country. Prime Minister...

TSMC has committed another $100 billion to its Arizona buildout, a move that would raise its planned U.S. investment to $265 billion and add at least four fabs targeting 2-nanometer-class chips and beyond. For Windows PC buyers and enterprise IT teams, the immediate effect is not a cheaper...

AMD says South Korean industrial-AI startup AiBiz is running its DutchBoy wafer-defect detection platform on EPYC 9355 and EPYC 9554 server CPUs, avoiding GPUs for inference inside semiconductor fabrication equipment. As reported by Interesting Engineering and detailed in an AMD case study, the...

Intel has completed the Pentagon-backed RAMP-C pilot on its 18A manufacturing process, but the milestone does not confirm production-chip orders from Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Qualcomm, or any other program participant. As reported by MLQ.ai, the Rapid Assured Microelectronics...

Intel Foundry’s second-quarter performance marks a meaningful improvement in execution, but it does not yet settle the question that will define the company’s manufacturing strategy: can Intel become a trusted, large-scale supplier for chip companies beyond Intel itself? The numbers show...

Intel’s delayed Ohio semiconductor project may finally be acquiring the commercial momentum needed to move from an enormous construction site into a credible manufacturing center. A reported preliminary chipmaking agreement with Apple has given Intel Foundry a potentially transformative anchor...

Intel’s decision to pull Intel 14A forward by a full year is the clearest sign yet that its foundry recovery is moving from an aspirational roadmap to a capital-backed manufacturing plan. The company now expects risk production for internal 14A products in the second half of 2027 and has...

Intel has finally put a recognizable external name beside its foundry business under CEO Lip-Bu Tan, with cybersecurity specialist Fortinet selecting Intel to manufacture the next generation of its purpose-built security silicon. The forthcoming Fortinet SP6 security processor will use Intel 4...

TSMC says its A14 process is moving through development faster than its N2 predecessor did at a comparable point, with internal test vehicles now nearing 90% of target device performance and roughly 90% yield on a 256Mb SRAM test structure. The update came during TSMC’s July 16 second-quarter...

Dutch research institute TNO and lithography giant ASML have formed a strategic partnership in Eindhoven to help move indium phosphide photonic chips from pilot-line experimentation toward higher-volume manufacturing on 6-inch wafers. The deal is not another abstract “Europe needs chips”...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Sherman, Texas, this week as Coherent broke ground on an expanded indium phosphide semiconductor facility tied to a $2 billion Nvidia partnership, arguing that AI infrastructure can revive American manufacturing while warning that electricity supply may become the...