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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o. 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? Engineering schools in the United States are now racing to produce that talent. Exciting as this is for the U.S.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. Hodges became dean of UC Berkeley’s engineering college in 1990.

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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.

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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. By nature, I was interested in doing engineering,” he says. “By

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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. The plant will use 22- and 28-nanometer line processing," said Tadahiro Kuroda , Director of Systems Design Lab (d.lab) at the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. "So China trade war erupted.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. The Project Koyash team at ASU designed a solar-powered air-filtration system that autonomously cleans polluted air in less than an hour.

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Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid For Independence?

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China has taken another step toward semiconductor independence with Alibaba announcing the design of a 5-nanometer technology server chip that is based on Arm Ltd. 's This means other companies can use it in their own processor designs—and escape architecture license fees. s latest instruction set architecture.

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