TSMC is said to be considering a 3nm foundry in Arizona, built at the same complex where the company’s 5nm fabs are to be constructed. Any shift to building 3nm technology in the United States would be a substantial upgrade from the previously planned investment. In , TSMC announced plans to build a 5nm foundry in Arizona at a cost of $10-$12 billion, with the facility operational in 2024. Earlier this month, rumors surfaced that TSMC might significantly expand the facility. Now, we’re hearing that the Taiwanese foundry might deploy 3nm technology in lieu of 5nm. Reuters that TSMC is considering an additional $23-$25 billion for the Arizona facility, and that the additional spending would be to outfit the foundry with 3nm instead of 5nm hardware.
Samsung is way out in the lead of the fledgling foldable market, and it might stay that way based on the concept hardware it . There are more folds, different folds, and less distracting cameras. You can’t buy these devices yet, but they could arrive sooner than you think based on the rapid improvement we’ve already seen in Samsung’s foldables. We’ve seen folding OLED demos at trade shows for the better part of a decade, but real foldables finally started to appear in the last two years courtesy of Motorola, Huawei, and of course, Samsung. The first major foldable release was the Z Fold, which suffered a number of hardware issues during the initial review program.
Google launched Wear OS (nee Android Wear) in 2014 with partners like Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Most big smartphone makers stopped making Wear OS watches over the intervening years, but a from SamMobile adds credence to the rumors that Samsung could be returning to the Google fold. The company’s next wearable will apparently run Wear with a healthy sprinkling of One UI styling. After initially supporting Wear OS, Samsung broke away and focused on its own Tizen-based wearable software. Tizen offers better battery life and performance on the small screen, but Samsung’s services and app support aren’t even in the same league as Google’s.
Google has struggled to gain traction with its Pixel line of smartphones. In 2020, it scaled back the hardware, launching only one “premium” Pixel with worse specs than its predecessor. If the latest leak is accurate, is about to make up for that decision and push the envelope. The new Pixel 6 renders, courtesy of noted leaker Jon Prosser, show off a radically different design with new camera hardware and maybe even custom Google chips. Let’s address the elephant in the room here: The camera hump is enormous and weird. It’s more of a visor that stretches across the back of the phone, not unlike the Nexus 6P from 2015.
South Korea has announced it will spend $450 billion over the next nine years to take the lead in the global semiconductor market. This is an aggressive move by South Korea to boost its semiconductor businesses. For comparison, President Biden recently called on Congress to invest $50 billion over a decade in the National Science Foundation, focusing on advanced computing and semiconductor research. Samsung and SK Hynix are two of the major beneficiaries of the new bill, but Bloomberg there are 153 companies named in total. These companies are expected to drive the industry forward, securing South Korea’s relevance in the global market.
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AMD has announced an amended wafer supply agreement (WSA) with GlobalFoundries, clarifying the relationship the two companies will have through 2024. AMD and GF have been consciously slowly uncoupling from each other for nearly a decade at this point, and while the two firms will continue to work together for the next few years, this latest WSA gives AMD total freedom to explore deals with other manufacturing partners. The new amended document states: “The A&R Seventh Amendment also removes all prior exclusivity commitments and provides the Company with full flexibility to contract with any wafer foundry with respect to all products manufactured at any technology node.
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