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The global foundry market is currently dominated by TSMC, which handles all the chip business from the world’s top tech companies, including Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and many others. Samsung and Intel have foundry operations that compete with TSMC, too, but neither company will soon encroach on TSMC’s turf. However, …

Intel has been trying to get its foundry services business off the ground since it launched in 2021, and today it’s reached a milestone in that effort. Intel Foundry Services has announced a new partnership with Mediatek to fab some of its future products. Mediatek has been known to previously …

  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 …

  When Samsung, NXP, and Infineon announced they were shutting down their factories in Austin, TX to help the state manage its electrical shortage, the shutdowns were expected to be brief. There’s no word on whether or not Infineon has restarted, but both Samsung and NXP are still offline, 15 …

  TSMC recently announced it would spend an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures in 2021, and it sounds as if Samsung may approximately match the increase. There are new reports that the Korean giant could build a new $10B foundry in Texas to handle advanced logic manufacturing at the …

  SK Hynix has announced it will acquire Intel’s NAND memory business for $9B, including Intel’s NAND SSD foundry, its component and wafer business, and the manufacturing facility Intel built in Dalian, China. The announcement specifically states that Intel will retain its Optane business. Not the Fastest Timeline The two …

Ever since Samsung recalled the Note 7, it’s been obvious the downturn would whack its finances (and the mobile phone division has, indeed, been hit hard by the double recall and sales loss). Despite these losses, however, Samsung just posted its best operating profit in three years. That’s mostly thanks …

We’ve talked several times this year about TSMC’s plans to aggressively take back the market share it has lost to Samsung at 14nm, but the company isn’t just planning to ramp next-generation process nodes as quickly as possible. TSMC announced it will build a $15.7 billion foundry facility focused on the …