By Max A. Cherney, Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel on Wednesday named former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO effective on March 18, more than three months after it ousted company veteran Pat Gelsinger. Tan, a longtime technology investor with more than 20 years of industry experience, had…
By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – When Taiwan’s Powerchip Technology entered a deal with the eastern Chinese city of Hefei in 2015 to set up a new chip foundry, it hoped the move would help provide better access the promising Chinese market. Nine years later, however, that Chinese foundry, Nexchip, has become one of its…
China must develop new chip-design technologies that do not rely on advanced manufacturing processes, according to one of the mainland’s leading authorities on semiconductors, as the domestic integrated circuit (IC) industry faces increased US technology restrictions. “It’s time to commit to building our own technological ecosystem,” Wei Shaojun, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of…
By Krystal Hu, Fanny Potkin and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – OpenAI is working with Broadcom and TSMC to build its first in-house chip designed to support its artificial intelligence systems, while adding AMD chips alongside Nvidia chips to meet its surging infrastructure demands, sources told Reuters. OpenAI, the fast-growing company behind ChatGPT, has examined a…
A state-funded semiconductor lab in China said it has achieved a “milestone” in the development of silicon photonics, which could help the country overcome current technical barriers in chip design and achieve self-sufficiency amid US sanctions. JFS Laboratory – based in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province and a national base for photonics research –…