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TL;DR — Reuters scoop: Alphabet, Meta, MS and other Big Tech have offered to fund new SK hynix production lines and pay ~$400M per EUV scanner directly. Pack...
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TL;DR — TSMC's April revenue, reported May 8, came in at NT$410.73B (~$13.05B), +17.5% YoY but -1.1% MoM — the slowest monthly growth since last October. Des...
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TL;DR — On May 7, SK Securities raised SK hynix to ₩3M from ₩2M and Samsung Electronics to ₩500K from ₩400K on the same day. Mirae Asset also lifted SK hynix...
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TL;DR — May 6: Samsung Electronics shares ripped through a $1 trillion valuation for the first time on an AI memory demand surge. Asia's second name in the $...
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TL;DR — Per the SIA release on May 4 (US), 1Q26 global semiconductor revenue hit $298.5B, +25% QoQ — an all-time quarterly high. AI infra and memory pricing...
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TL;DR — Microsoft CFO Hood broke out $25B of 2026's $190B capex as a dedicated memory chip cost line. Combined Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft capex hi...
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TL;DR — TSMC will defer High-NA EUV (EXE:5200, ~$400m per tool) through the A13 node in 2029 and stay on Low-NA + multi-patterning. The result: 45% of ASML's...
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TL;DR — Samsung's 1Q26 call officially confirmed conventional DRAM margins now exceed HBM's. HBM is locked into annual pricing while conventional DRAM renego...
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Synopsys is hosting a free webinar for the first time in a long while. The topic is HAV — one of the hottest subjects in the industry right now. Register...
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TL;DR 1. Problem: When Karnaugh map breaks 1.1 40 variables, the Karnaugh map is over 1.2 The 3 things this article targets 2. Shannon cofactor: a new...
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When you take an EDA or VLSI CAD class, all of a sudden these tools pop up: At first, they all seem similar: "Isn't this all about logic expressions?" "Do...
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Semiconductors age too Today's Semiconductor devices undergo a kind of "aging" phenomenon where their performance slowly degrades over time. Just as...
