On December 11, the European Commission announced that it has approved EUR 623 million in German state aid for GlobalFoundries and X-FAB to support the construction of two new semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Germany. The aid consists of two grants, valued at EUR 495 million and EUR128 m...

Having completed development of its 6th-generation 1c DRAM on a 10 nm-class process in July, Samsung Electronics is now moving forward with next-generation DRAM technology. According to The Elec, Samsung and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) unveiled a new method for implementing...

Intel is continuing efforts to advance its foundry business and has reached another milestone with equipment supplied by Dutch lithography toolmaker ASML. According to a recent blog post from the company, Intel and ASML have completed “acceptance testing” on the first second-generation High-NA E...

The memory shortage continues as brands shift resources toward higher-value products. According to TechPowerUp, sources say Samsung is considering suspending its consumer SATA III SSD production amid tightening NAND flash supply, though the company says it currently has no such plans, as Wccftech in...

As memory prices soar, Dell is reportedly set to lead the wave of PC price hikes, raising prices across its commercial lines starting December 17. Commercial Times reports that Taiwan’s Acer and ASUS both acknowledged that passing on soaring memory costs has become an industry-wide consensus, and ...