SK Hynix Dismisses Report of Chongqing Plant Sale
SEOUL–Rumors about the future of SK Hynix’s packaging plant in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing have circulated for weeks inside the memory industry. On Aug. 10, the company responded,…
Sony and TSMC Plan $6.3 Billion Image Sensor Plant in Japan
TOKYO–Kumamoto prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu, has become the most crowded patch of semiconductor real estate in Japan. TSMC’s first Japanese fab opened there, its second is under…
SpaceX Retail Investors Turn Sellers After IPO Run
NEW YORK–The first few months of SpaceX’s life as a public company had a familiar shape: individual investors piled into the stock, buying shares of the rocket maker on every…
TSMC Revives Longtan for 1.4nm Fabs and a CoWoS Hub
The land on the outskirts of Longtan, a district in Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, spent three years as a symbol of what happens when a government refuses to accept a…
SK Hynix Weighs Exit From Its Chongqing Packaging Plant
SK Hynix is evaluating options for its semiconductor packaging plant in Chongqing, China, a facility with a book value of about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.…
Amazon’s Texas Data Center Comes With a Power Plant of Its Own
Amazon confirmed on August 8 that it is investing in a large natural-gas power plant to supply a planned data center campus in Pecos County, West Texas, a facility that…
Samsung Races to Staff Its Texas Fab
Samsung Electronics is accelerating hiring at its chip factory in Taylor, Texas, as the facility approaches production, according to Korean media reports on August 9. The company is working with…
Tesla Files for $10.1 Billion Solar Cell Factory in Texas
Tesla has filed paperwork for a $10.1 billion solar-cell manufacturing campus in Fort Bend County, Texas, the largest manufacturing investment the company has ever put on paper. The application, submitted…
SpaceX Shares Jump 16% Past Lockup Test; Terafab Chip Plant Breaks Ground
SpaceX shares surged 16% on Friday, closing at $133.11 and within striking distance of the company’s $135 initial public offering price, as investors shrugged off the end of a lockup…
Intel Hires Marvell’s Jarnac as Chief Sales Officer
Intel said it has hired Dean Jarnac as executive vice president and chief sales officer, putting a 30-year semiconductor industry veteran in charge of its global sales organization as the…
