The U.S. government is set to provide American chipmakers $52 billion in funding in a bid to strengthen the local semiconductor industry and lay the groundwork for its revival in America. But to get billions of dollars from the government, companies will have to agree to a variety of terms, which include not expanding their…
When U.S. legislators proposed the CHIPS and Science act a couple of years ago, they set a rather vague goal to significantly increase domestic chip production by building new fabs. However, the U.S. government will set the wheels in motion next month by accepting applications for semiconductor projects. And this week, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo outlined the…
As pathfinding, research, and development cycle for all-new manufacturing technologies stretches, foundries have to introduce revamped versions of their nodes in a bid to meet client requirements. TSMC on Thursday formally unveiled its N3 (3nm class) family of fabrication processes that will be used to build leading-edge chips in the next three years. One of…
