James Morra

Senior Staff Editor

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Briefing Ed Promo
Supply Chain Technology

The Briefing: Why Foundries Are Not the Only Culprits Behind Chip Deficit

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
News & Trends

Ongoing PC Chip Shortage Takes Toll on Micron

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
News & Trends

Cree Strikes Deal with GM for Silicon Carbide Chips, Changes Name

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
Supply Chain Technology

U.S. Pushes Companies for More Transparency on Chip Supply Chains

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
Supply Chain Technology

Broadcom Tightens Strings on Supply Amid Global Chip Scramble

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
News & Trends

Department of Defense Enlists Intel to Fab Future Leading-Edge Chips

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
Supply Chain Technology

Analog Devices Closes $20 Billion Deal to Buy Maxim Integrated

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
Supply Chain Technology

Marvell Says Supply Takes Priority for Customers as Shortages Raise Chip Prices

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
News & Trends

Marvell to Buy Switch Chip Startup for $1.1 Billion to Lure Cloud Customers

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
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Supply Chain Technology

Apple Warns Global Chip Shortage Will Start to Impact iPhones

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...