Lockheed Martin has joined Intel, Nvidia, and eight other big tech companies as part of a plan to securely link defense systems in what Lockheed calls a 21st century concept. The company, which makes defense equipment ranging from F–35 jets to the Javelin anti–tank missiles currently used in the Ukraine war, foresees a day when […]
Following strong demand for processors used in servers as well as the contribution from it’s acquisition of field programmable gate array (FPGA) maker Xilinx, AMD predicts its target annual revenue will grow by 60% in 2022. “Based on higher AMD organic growth, as well as the addition of Xilinx with strong demand across multiple end […]
On my daily walks, I often look up at the streetlights and think about the potential they hold for deploying many different technology solutions, whether for environmental monitoring, surveillance, or for enhancing network infrastructure. So it was no surprise to see this week’s announcement from Movandi and Ubicquia of their partnership to develop and deploy […]
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its profit in the first quarter of 2022 jump by more than 50% on strong demand for memory in data centers. South Korea’s largest company posted net income of 11.3 trillion Korean won ($8.9 billion) compared with 7.1 trillion won (5.6 billion) in the same period a […]
Is computer vision about to reinvent itself, again? Ryad Benosman, professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh and an adjunct professor at the CMU Robotics Institute, believes that it is. As one of the founding fathers of event–based vision technologies, Benosman expects neuromorphic vision — computer vision based on event–based cameras — is the […]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reiterated its plan to spend more than $40 billion this year for capacity expansion despite concerns that overall demand for chips may wane. At a quarterly results meeting today, TSMC maintained its expectation from three months ago that capital expenditures would rise to as much as $44 billion in 2022 […]
Intel today opened a $3 billion expansion of D1X Mod3, an advanced technology fab in Hillsboro, Oregon; an investment that’s aimed at recapturing leadership in semiconductor process technology. At a ribbon–cutting ceremony, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reiterated the company’s commitment to U.S. leadership in semiconductor R&D. The largest U.S. chipmaker redubbed the nearly 500–acre campus […]
The U.S. government and domestic chipmakers strengthened separate efforts this week to pass the $52 billion CHIPS Act of stimulus measures. The CHIPS Act currently awaits congressional approval, warning of strategic vulnerabilities now and in the future. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and other White House officials on Apr. 6 briefed members of Congress […]
3M has suspended production in Belgium of the polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) used in the chipmaking process, which is considered hazardous to human health. PFAS chemical composition (Source: 3M) The materials supplier halted production of PFAS at a plant near the Belgian village of Zwijndrecht on Mar. 8. The company notified clients including Samsung, SK Hynix, […]
An ongoing ransomware attack on Nvidia, the world’s largest GPU maker, may be helping the company’s competition in China, according to a research group in Washington D.C. Last week, Nvidia lost proprietary information to a group of hackers. A ransomware gang called “Lapsus$” has leaked Nvidia passwords, schematics, drivers and firmware and is threatening to release […]