Samsung’s HBM4 Yield Push Pressures SK Hynix
SEOUL–Inside Samsung Electronics’ memory fabrication plants, the metric engineers watch most closely shifted this summer. The company’s HBM4 production yield, a measure of how many of the advanced memory chips…
Samsung Races to Staff Its Texas Fab
Samsung Electronics is accelerating hiring at its chip factory in Taylor, Texas, as the facility approaches production, according to Korean media reports on August 9. The company is working with…
Amazon’s Texas Data Center Comes With a Power Plant of Its Own
Amazon confirmed on August 8 that it is investing in a large natural-gas power plant to supply a planned data center campus in Pecos County, West Texas, a facility that…
SK Hynix Weighs Exit From Its Chongqing Packaging Plant
SK Hynix is evaluating options for its semiconductor packaging plant in Chongqing, China, a facility with a book value of about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.…
TSMC Revives Longtan for 1.4nm Fabs and a CoWoS Hub
The land on the outskirts of Longtan, a district in Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, spent three years as a symbol of what happens when a government refuses to accept a…
SoftBank-Backed 3D Printer Maker Formlabs Explores $500 Million IPO
Formlabs, the Massachusetts maker of desktop 3D printers backed by SoftBank, is in early discussions with financial advisers about an initial public offering that could raise roughly $500 million, according…
Intel Hires Marvell’s Jarnac as Chief Sales Officer
Intel said it has hired Dean Jarnac as executive vice president and chief sales officer, putting a 30-year semiconductor industry veteran in charge of its global sales organization as the…
SpaceX Shares Jump 16% Past Lockup Test; Terafab Chip Plant Breaks Ground
SpaceX shares surged 16% on Friday, closing at $133.11 and within striking distance of the company’s $135 initial public offering price, as investors shrugged off the end of a lockup…
Tesla Files for $10.1 Billion Solar Cell Factory in Texas
Tesla has filed paperwork for a $10.1 billion solar-cell manufacturing campus in Fort Bend County, Texas, the largest manufacturing investment the company has ever put on paper. The application, submitted…
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million
SANTA FE, N.M.—The judge’s ruling reads like a list of demands, and its total is the largest of its kind in American law. A New Mexico court has ordered Meta…
