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TSMC to Build Chip Fab in Japan

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After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, announced in an online earnings briefing Thursday that it would build a semiconductor plant in Japan. TSMC gains fundamental science knowledge to help it build more advanced chips.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o. TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make?

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India Injects $15 Billion Into Semiconductors

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“On one end India has a large and growing domestic demand and on the other end global customers are looking at India for supply chain resilience,” Frank Hong, chairman of Taiwan-based foundry Powerchip Semiconductor (PSMC) , a partner in the new fab, said in a press release. Tata Electronics will build a $3.25

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India to be on high-stake global stage of chip makers in 5 years: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw – ET Auto

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Vaishnaw said the country already has roughly one-third of global design talent. His government is leveraging this and India’s geopolitical clout to become an indispensable partner for tech ambitions of the US, which like other western economies, is looking to decouple their supply chains from China.

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

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Yuh-Jier Mii started on the ground floor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. For his “leadership in developing industry-leading foundry logic process technologies and open innovation design platforms,” Mii is being honored with the 2022 IEEE Frederik Philips Award. in 1994 as a fabrication integration manager.

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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

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That's when the battle with Japan put Silicon Valley on the map as a crucial part of the American economy" But then times changed, thanks to the increasing importance of software. They convince us to design our own products. There's a scramble to build fabs outside Taiwan, but that will take two to three years.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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The prototype at the FloWave facility —one of 10 new floating wind-power designs being tested here—is progressing fast, says Tom Davey , who oversees testing. This scale model of a floating wind-turbine platform is one of 10 new designs being tested at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility.

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