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...Washington’s controls, which extend to foundries in Taiwan and South Korea contracted to make chips for Chinese groups, are made possible by the vast amount of American hardware and software embedded in...
...NHS data specialists have warned against the rollout of Palantir’s software across the organisation, as the US tech company vies for a £480mn contract to build the UK health service’s operating system....
...Its Foundry software was used in the management of ventilators and PPE equipment, as well as delivery of the nationwide vaccination programme....
...Tan said he was considering Intel as a potential new foundry partner, as an alternative to its main supplier, Taiwan-based TSMC....
...Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, announced last year it was investing $17bn in a new plant in Texas in a bid to catch up with Taiwanese rival TSMC in the foundry sector....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 31. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 2. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The rollout comes after a recent pilot of Palantir’s Foundry system at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust helped reduce the inpatient waiting list by 28 per cent — the equivalent of tens of thousands...
...Samsung, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is building a $17bn foundry plant in Taylor, Texas, while second-ranked SK Hynix is planning to build an advanced chip packaging plant in the US....
...still pass through higher foundry costs to its customers in 2023 via a 3-6 per cent price hike....
...Samsung is building a $17bn foundry in Taylor, Texas, while SK Hynix is planning to build an advanced chip packaging plant in the US. “We’re perplexed by these unexpected conditions....
...The stakes in that regard are high for Palantir, whose Foundry software was used by the NHS to manage the UK’s Covid-19 vaccination programme among other pandemic commissions....
...He said last month that the company might have to postpone the launch of its high-end smartphone until next year. Samsung is also a significant manufacturer of chips through its foundry business....
...When Samsung Electronics declared that it would become the world’s top chipmaking foundry, it did so with the confidence that one might expect from South Korea’s largest company....
...In March, Intel announced plans to build a €17bn foundry in Magdeburg, Germany, as well as other investments in Europe....
...Samsung is also facing concern over its weakening semiconductor competitiveness, especially in the foundry business, according to analysts....
...Fumiaki Sato, co-founder of Sangyo Sosei Advisory, a boutique investment banking company, aims to establish a chip foundry that would provide manufacturing services for any and all of Japan’s power chipmakers...
...“The current platform (Foundry) is . . . delivering huge benefits and was critical to the success of the vaccination and PPE programmes.”...
...Palantir’s Foundry software has already been used effectively during the pandemic by the NHS, in the management of ventilators and PPE equipment, delivery of the nationwide vaccination programme and helping...
...Both major chipmakers are trying to catch up with Taiwan’s TSMC in expanding their foundry businesses....
...of the foundries.”...
...Apple is forging a closer partnership with Taiwanese foundry TSMC, according to this Nikkei story that was reported in this week’s #techAsia newsletter....
...The company’s share of the global chip foundry business — in which it makes semiconductors for other companies — is dwarfed by TSMC and Samsung....
...It now accounts for just 10 per cent of global production, as companies such as STMicroelectronics and Infineon subcontract production to foundries such as TSMC....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 27. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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