A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive US manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce the country’s reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will “sharply increase production” of semiconductors in the United States. But it will do so at a high cost and might not deliver the best bang for the … Read more
Security researchers have identified a vulnerability in AMD processors that they have dubbed badRAM and which could allow threat actors with physical access to cloud computing environments to bypass encryption protections, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. The flaw circumvents AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which encrypts virtual machine memory to … Read more
The US spared China’s top producer of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) from its latest round of chip export restrictions because of opposition from Japan, according to sources. The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on Monday imposed an export ban on China over 24 types of chipmaking equipment and three categories of software … Read more
Sales of Huawei Technologies’ latest flagship Mate 70-series smartphones are expected to fall short of the demand generated by the Mate 60, according to analysts, citing the new model’s weaker processor performance and heightened supply chain risks amid geopolitical tensions. The Mate 70 was launched last Tuesday at an event in Shenzhen, where Huawei consumer … Read more
Beijing is set to spend 33 billion yuan (US$4.6 billion) building a 12-inch wafer fabrication facility, led by state-owned enterprises and funds, marking another step in China’s efforts to boost domestic semiconductor production Leading firms involved in the new facility include Beijing Yandong Microelectronics (YDME), which is listed on Shanghai’s Star Market, and BOE Technology, … Read more