2025-01-16 CCCS approves AMD’s proposed acquisition of ZT Group Lisa Su, CEO of AMD（Photo：Reuters） The proposed acquisition of ZT Group International by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been approved by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS). According to CCCS’ assessment, the acquisition will not infringe section 54 of the Competition Act 2004 which prohibits mergers that may lessen market competition. AMD is a fabless global semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies whilst ZT 
2025-01-07 AI is major theme of Las Vegas CES Gadgets, robots and vehicles imbued with artificial intelligence (AI) would once again vie for attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, as vendors behind the scenes would seek ways to deal with tariffs threatened by US president-elect Donald Trump. The annual Consumer Electronics Show opens formally in Las Vegas tomorrow, but preceding days are packed with product announcements. AI would be a major theme of the show, along with autonomous vehicles ranging from tractors a 
2024-12-30 TSMC plans two more Kaohsiung fabs Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, plans to begin construction of its fourth and fifth wafer fabs in Kaohsiung next year, targeting the development of high-end processes. The two facilities — P4 and P5 — are part of TSMC’s production expansion program, which aims to build five fabs in Kaohsiung. TSMC facility division vice president Arthur Chuang (莊子壽) on Thursday said that the five facilities a 
2024-12-23 Samsung inks deal for US CHIPS funds Samsung Electronics Co and Texas Instruments Inc completed final agreements to get billions of US dollars of government support for new semiconductor plants in the US, cementing a major piece of US President Joe Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act initiative. Under binding agreements unveiled Friday, Samsung would get as much as US$4.75 billion in funding, while Texas Instruments stands to receive US$1.6 billion — money that would help them build facilities in Tex 
2024-12-18 GlobalWafers to get US$406m from US GlobalWafers Co (環球晶圓), the world’s third-largest silicon wafer supplier, yesterday said it is to receive US$406 million in subsidies from the US Department of Commerce for two new US fabs under the CHIPS and Science Act, with the first batch of the funds likely coming next year. The grant represents 10 percent of the planned investments of US$4 billion in advanced semiconductor wafer manufacturing facilities in Texas and Missouri, GlobalWafers said. The commerce department is to 
2024-12-10 Vanguard and NXP break ground on Singapore plant VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Pte Ltd (VSMC), the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp (世界先進) and NXP Semiconductors NV, yesterday broke ground on a 12-inch wafer factory in Singapore in a move to increase supply chain resilience. The Hsinchu-based Vanguard’s first 12-inch fab in Singapore is to start initial production in 2027, and production is expected to expand to 55,000 wafers a month in 2029, it said in a statement. Vanguard said it w 
2024-12-03 Tokyo Electron opens center in Tainan Tokyo Electron Ltd, Asia’s biggest semiconductor equipment supplier, yesterday launched a NT$2 billion (US$61.5 million) operations center in Tainan as it aims to expand capacity and meet growing demand. Its new Taiwan Operations Center is expected to help customers release their products faster, boost production efficiency and shorten equipment repair time in a cost-effective way, the company said. The center is about a five-minute drive from the factories of its major customers 
2024-11-30 Germany prepares new chip subsidies The German government is preparing billions of euros of new investments into the nation’s semiconductor industry, two months after Intel Corp shelved plans to build a 30 billion euro (US$31.6 billion) chip factory in Magdeburg, Germany. The new funds would be provided to chip companies to develop “modern production capacities that significantly exceed the current state of the art,” Annika Einhorn, a spokesperson from the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and C 
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