James Morra

Senior Staff Editor

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Briefing Ed Promo
While foundries are investing aggressively to ease the global chip shortage, other factors are prolonging the supply woes, from tight supplies of raw materials to a lack of back...
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Various electronic devices
Micron said shortages of non-memory chips that are pushing out orders for some of its products will ease over the course of 2022.
General Motors
Semiconductors
Cree said that it has officially changed its name to Wolfspeed to underscore its transformation into a power semiconductor maker. The GM deal is a high-profile win for the company...
Infineon Technologies
Semiconductor fab
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with auto giants (GM, Ford, and Stellantis), technology firms (Apple and Microsoft), chip makers (Intel and Micron), and foundries...

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Broadcom chip
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan is trying to navigate the global chip shortage by carefully controlling what orders it fills so that customers that need its semiconductors most urgently...
Intel
Semiconductors
The decline of U.S. semiconductor fabs is leaving the Department of Defense with limited onshore access to leading-edge foundry technology that can meet the nation's long-term...
Continental
Automotive semiconductors
The deal brings together the No. 2 and No. 3 players in the market for standard analog chips, giving it a broader range of technologies to take to its battle with analog semiconductor...
Marvell
Marvell's Octeon 10 DPU
The industry is facing higher costs for everything from silicon wafers to substrates. Packaging, assembly and testing costs are also up. Marvell and other chip vendors are working...
Dreamstime
Artist's rendition of a cloud server
Marvell said the deal would help it to take part in the market for merchant Ethernet switch silicon for data centers, which the company estimates will grow 15% every year for ...
Thinkstock
Closeup of PCB
Apple executives warned that a global chip shortage that has already affected the production of its Mac computers and iPad tablets will start to afflict its flagship iPhone in...