Ανασκόπηση της εβδομάδας βιομηχανίας τσιπ

By Susan Rambo, Jesse Allen, and Liz Allan

Η ΗΠΑ government will provide about $162 million in federal incentives, under the CHIPS and Science Act, to help Microchip onshore its εφοδιαστική αλυσίδα ημιαγωγών. The move is aimed at securing a reliable domestic supply of MCUs and mature-node chips. “Today’s announcement will help propel semiconductor manufacturing projects in Colorado and Oregon, and reinforce America’s chip supply chains for critical automotive, medical, aerospace, and defense technologies, among other applications,” είπε John Neuffer, Ένωση βιομηχανιών ημιαγωγών (SIA) πρόεδρος και διευθύνων σύμβουλος.

Five chip companies — Ρόμπερτ Μπους, Infineon, Σκανδιναβικός ημιαγωγός, NXP, να Qualcomm — joined forces to create a new company Quintauris. The stated goal is to develop and commercialize RISC-V-based hardware, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions that can be widely used across various industries. While the initial focus will be automotive, the companies plan to expand into mobile and IoT, as well.

X-FAB αποκτήθηκαν M-MOS Semiconductor, a fabless company specializing in the development of MOSFET technologies and the design of custom MOSFET devices, for €22.5 million (~$24.7 million). X‑FAB anticipates the acquisition will accelerate development of its power discrete business.

Global semiconductor capacity will reach 30 million wafers per month in 2024, a νέο ρεκόρ, up 5.5% from 2023, according to ΗΜΙ.

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Ειδική αναφορά: Investments are booming as countries and companies vie for supply chain security and technology leadership. Here’s a look at 130 fab and facility investments in the chip industry.

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Γρήγοροι σύνδεσμοι για περισσότερα νέα:

Σχεδιασμός και Ισχύς
Κατασκευή και δοκιμή
Αυτοκίνητο και Μπαταρίες
Ασφάλεια
Pervasive Computing και AI
Αναφορές σε βάθος
People
Εκδηλώσεις

Σχεδιασμός και Ισχύς

Rambus ανακοίνωσε availability of its Gen4 DDR5 Registering Clock Driver (RCD), which boosts the data rate to 7200 MT/s to support generative AI and other advanced data center workloads.

Οι ΗΠΑ H-1B visa program is poised for a shakeup due to a critical talent shortage and the need to keep highly qualified engineers in the country, especially after they graduate from U.S. universities.

Astrobotic μόχλευση Ansys’ multiphysics and digital mission engineering (DME) solutions to prepare for a lunar mission by predicting many categories of the spacecraft’s performance indicators, from plotting the orbital trajectory to analyzing communication system performance.

Georgia Tech researchers created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graφένιο, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known.

DARPA προσπαθεί να προσδιορίσει under-explored approaches to quantum computing that could accelerate the timetable for utility-scale operation, where the computational value exceeds its cost. Microsoft και PsiQuantum have been selected to move forward in the program and will design fault-tolerant smaller-scale quantum computer prototypes based on topological qubits and silicon-based photonics, respectively.

Κατασκευή και δοκιμή

The magnitude 7.5 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan has not stopped production in the semiconductor industry, but it did temporarily halt manufacturing at TAIYO YUDEN, Σιν-Ετσου, Global Wafers, Toshiba, να TPSCo, according to TrendForce. Πλεονέκτημα αναφερθεί χωρίς προβλήματα, να Toshiba θα παρέχει ένα ενημέρωση.

Bruker είπε ότι θα αποκτούν Phasefocus, a privately held company with expertise in imaging and image processing algorithms.

Η Ολλανδικά government’s mandate that ASML stop shipping its NXT:2050i and NXT:2100i lithography systems to κινέζικο customers, has been partially revoked. ASML said the export control would affect only a small number of customers in China, and that it did not expect the export controls to have a material impact in 2023.

To remain competitive with foreign salaries, the Asia-based semiconductor industry is increasing starting pay rates. ’Tokyo Electron θα αυξήσει the starting salaries of new hires by about 40%, according to Nikkei Asia. TSMC, meanwhile, offered starting salaries in 2022 that were 40% higher than the local average, and will offer larger starting salaries at its new plant in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, which may boost salaries across the board, according to the JapanTimes.

Του Ισραήλ government will provide a Επιχορήγηση 3.2 δισεκατομμυρίων δολαρίων to help pay for the $25 billion chip plant Intel is building in southern Israel.

UMC κέρδισε an AAA certification for IP management from Ταϊβάν’s Industrial Development Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The certification is given to companies that show continuous efforts on managing and optimizing IP.

Οι ΗΠΑ Εθνικό Ινστιτούτο Καινοτομίας και Τεχνολογίας ξεκίνησε the national Semiconductor and Advanced Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship Program (SAM-TAP) as part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s mission to create Registered Apprenticeships (RAs) for the semiconductor and nanotechnology-related industries.

Αυτοκίνητο και Μπαταρίες

Twelve companies, including Renesas, Κυματισμός φωνής, Synopsys, Honda, Mazda, να Nissan, εγκατεστημένος the Advanced SoC Research for Automotive (ASRA) network to research and develop high-performance digital ICs for automotive. The plan is to have these chips in mass production from 2030 onward.

A huge number of startups are attempting to jump start new technologies in the automotive sector in what has become a highly competitive and global race. Investors are funneling large sums of money for everything from lidar to power semiconductors.

Changes to the federal Πίστωση φόρου EV took effect on January 1. Topping out at $7,500, the credit will exclude certain EVs that contain components or critical minerals from “foreign entities of concern” (FEOC). Some buyers will be able to access the credit right after purchasing an eligible vehicle.

Ansys sensors will be προσιτός εντός NVIDIA‘s scenario-based AV simulator, allowing users to access to high-fidelity sensor simulation outputs for the training and validation of perception ADAS/AV systems.

Airbus και BMW ξεκίνησε the Quantum Mobility Quest global computing challenge “to tackle the most pressing challenges in aviation and automotive that have remained insurmountable for classical computers.”

Rivian is υπενθυμίζοντας some 2022 R1T and R1S vehicles because the accelerator pedal may not detect when the driver releases the pedal, which can result in unintended vehicle movement of the vehicle. Rivian has released an over-the-air software update, and will replace the accelerator pedals for free.

Croatian EV company Rimac, which makes the Nevera electric hypercar and co-owns Bugatti, plans to produce a fleet of αυτόνομα ταξί by 2026, reports Forbes.

LeddarTech, which develops AI-based low-level sensor fusion and perception software for assisted and autonomous driving, is now a public company. It will trade as LDTC on the NASDAQ.

In what may truly be the first smartphone on wheels, China’s Xiaomi ξεκίνησε its SU7 EV, which it claims will accelerate faster than Porsche’s Taycan and Τέσλα’s Model S, reports CNBC. The car is integrated with Xiaomi’s smartphone and internet-connected home appliances, but also will be compatible with the iPhone, iPad, CarPlay, and AirPlay.

Εν τω μεταξύ, BYD ξεπέρασε Τέσλα’s production for a second straight year with more than 3 million vehicles, and Νιο αποκαλυπτήρια its ET9 executive sedan to take on Mercedes-Benz‘s Maybach and Porsche‘s Panamera, featuring self-designed autonomous driving semiconductors, 900-volt electric drive for fast charging, and large cylindrical battery cells, according to Reuters. It is expected to start delivery in Q1 2025.

Hyundai filed a patent for a foldable μπαταρία πλήρως στερεάς κατάστασης with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, reports the Korean Car Blog.

Yamaha created a new company, ENYRING, Το οποίο παρέχει ανταλλάξιμες μπαταρίες for compact urban EVs, such as e-bikes. The goal is to create a closed loop, in which recycled materials are used as resources for creating new products.

EV τιμές μπαταρίας dropped in December, but are expected to stabilize by Q2 2024, reports TrendForce. Also, the global sales volume of neighborhood EVs (NEVs) was estimated to reach about 12.8 million units in 2023, with China expected to have a 60% market share, 22% in Western Europe, 11% in the U.S., and 6% in other regions.

Ασφάλεια

ΜΙΤΡΕ ευρηματικότητα completed a pilot program to address the need for cybersecurity risk mitigation across the mobile digital financial services (mDFS) ecosystem. The team created a cyber risk model to help direct the fintech industry and government toward solutions-oriented investments.

Fig. 1: A two-lens approach to security. Source: Mitre Engenuity

With encryption at risk in the post-quantum world, FPGAs are increasingly vulnerable. The solution requires both traditional and novel defenses.

A proposed augmented security module (ASM) provides security services for IoT devices within the same network, requiring minimal device modifications, according to researchers at Πανεπιστήμιο Kyung Hee και Oregon State University.

A self-adaptive striped-function logic locking method named SFLL-AD was proposed by researchers at Πανεπιστήμιο Zhejiang.

Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Nanyang (NTU) researchers used a twofold method for jailbreaking large language models (LLMs). First, they reverse-engineered how LLMs detect and defend themselves from malicious queries, and then they taught an LLM to automatically learn and produce prompts that bypass the defenses of other LLMs.

Υπηρεσία Κυβερνοασφάλειας και Ασφάλειας Υποδομών (έλαμψε) εκδίδεται various alerts, including advisories about a Bleichenbacher style attack on Mitsubushi’s factory automation products, and a buffer overflow attack on Rockwell’s Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager.

Pervasive Computing και AI

NXP και MicroEJ συνεργάστηκαν to offer software containers with standard APIs, enabling portability of RTOS-based MCUs and Linux-based processors in industrial and edge environments.

Qualcomm έκανε το ντεμπούτο του a single-chip architecture for mixed reality and virtual reality, with 4.3K resolution.

Intel και DigitalBridge σχηματίζεται Άρθρο 8 ΑΙ, an independent company offering a full-stack, vertically-optimized, and secure generative AI software platform that keeps customer data, training, and inference within the enterprise security perimeter.

Google DeepMind introduced AutoRT, a system that can collect more experiential training data, as well as more diverse data, to speed up robotic learning and prepare them for the real world.

Πανεπιστήμιο του Στάνφορντ researchers showed how the Mobile ALOHA ρομποτικό σύστημα can autonomously complete complex mobile manipulation tasks such as sauteing a piece of shrimp, opening a two-door wall cabinet, calling and entering an elevator, and rinsing a used pan.

Παγκόσμιο premium smartphones sales likely grew 6% year-over-year in 2023 to hit a new record, according to Counterpoint. Premium phones have a value of more than $600, and the segment is expected to capture almost a quarter of global smartphone market sales and 60% of the revenues in 2023. The overall smartphone market, meanwhile, is expected to show a decline.

Παγκόσμιο cellular IoT module shipments dropped 2% in Q3 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, and full-year shipments are expected to decline by 5%, according to Counterpoint. The top five applications – smart meters, automotive, POS, router/CPE, and telematics – accounted for more than 60% of total shipments. Meanwhile, the 5G market’s share in the global cellular IoT module market crossed 5% for the first time, with early adoption showing in the router/CPE, PC, and automotive markets.

Παγκόσμιο TV shipments were expected to fall by 2.3% in 2023, adversely impacted by inflation, reports TrendForce, while the shipment of LCD panels is projected to hit around 242 million units in 2024, a growth rate of about 3.4%.

Oxford University researchers set out a new principle to explain how the brain adjusts connections between neurons during learning, with the potential to inspire faster and more robust learning algorithms in AI.

Ερευνητές από το Εργαστήριο Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών και Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης του MIT (MIT-CSAIL) developed an approach that uses Μοντέλα AI to conduct experiments on other systems and explain their behavior. “Central to this strategy is the automated interpretability agent (AIA), designed to mimic a scientist’s experimental processes.”

Αναφορές σε βάθος

More new stories by the Semiconductor Engineering editorial team:

• Συζήτηση εμπειρογνωμόνων: Voltage droop in analog and mixed-signal designs, and the need for multi-vendor tool interoperability and more precision.
• Expert discussion: What’s changing in τεχνολογία αισθητήρων και γιατί.

People

Sassine Ghazi ανέλαβε Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος of Synopsys, posting a letter to stakeholders.

Ασπατικότητα, a developer of analog machine learning chips for always-on edge processing, καθορισμένος Richard Hegberg as its new CEO. Previous CEO and co-founder Tom Doyle will take up the role of COO.

Εκδηλώσεις

Βρείτε την επερχόμενη βιομηχανία τσιπ εκδηλώσεις εδώ, Μεταξύ των οποίων:

Συμβάν	Ημερομηνία	Τοποθεσία
ISS 2024: Industry Strategy Symposium	7 Ιανουαρίου - 10 Ιανουαρίου	Half Moon Bay, CA
CES 2024: Consumer Electronics	9 Ιανουαρίου - 12 Ιανουαρίου	Las Vegas, NV
Automotive World: Έκθεση Advanced Automotive Technology	24 Ιανουαρίου - 26 Ιανουαρίου	Τόκιο, Ιαπωνία
Ταχύτητα, πρωτόκολλο και ασφάλεια: Νέες προκλήσεις δικτύου αυτοκινήτου	Jan 24	Νόβι, ΜΙ
SPIE Photonics West	27 Ιανουαρίου - 1 Φεβρουαρίου	San Francisco, CA
DesignCon 2024	30 Ιανουαρίου - 1 Φεβρουαρίου	Σάντα Κλάρα, Καλιφόρνια
Σύνοδος Κορυφής Chiplet	6 – 8 Φεβρουαρίου	Σάντα Κλάρα, Καλιφόρνια
Η άνοδος των φωτονικών υπολογιστών	7 – 8 Φεβρουαρίου	San Jose, CA
Συμπόσιο συσκευασίας σε επίπεδο γκοφρέτας	13 – 15 Φεβρουαρίου	Αεροδρόμιο Hyatt Regency San Francisco
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