With Schneider ousting its CEO in a shock move, Samsung cutting staff in its foundry business and Atos selling off its supercomputer and quantum business, eeNews Europe in November had plenty of news about restructuring.
While the Chinese owner of chip designer FTDI in Glasgow is having to sell its stake under the new security law, Analog Device bought the assets of Flex Logix, opening up the opportunities for adding AI to the embedded microcontrollers it acquired with Maxim.
TSMC and Intel are capturing the last vestiges of the US CHIPS and Science Act, with Intel seeing its support trimmed. Germany also saw cash for a semiconductor skills academy across the country, bringing in many local institutions.
New chips were also popular news in November. The first 64bit microcontroller from Texas Instruments captured plenty of interest, as did Infineon’s TriCore-based Aurix TX4x and a universal RISC-V AI processor from Ubitium in Dusseldorf and Karlsruhe that promises to run all the algorithms from CPUs, GPUs and DSPs.
But the top news of the month was a billion dollars for a leading edge EUV centre in the US. While Dutch lithography technology leader ASML is part of the centre in Albany, New York, to stimulate a supply chain for EUV lithography in the US. That will be an interesting story that will run and run, starting with funding to develop new glass locally for EUV lenses.
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