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U.S. President Biden announced on Wednesday an agreement to provide Intel with $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans under the CHIPS and Science Act. Intel will use the funding for wafer fabs in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon. As reported in our December 2023 newsletter,… Read more“Semiconductor CapEx down in 2024”

The global semiconductor market grew 8.4% in 4Q 2023 from 3Q 2023, according to WSTS. The 8.4% gain was the highest quarter-to-quarter growth since 9.1% in 2Q 2021. This was also the highest 3Q to 4Q increase in 20 years, since an 11% rise in 4Q 2003. 4Q 2023 was… Read more“Strong End to 2023 Drives Healthy 2024”

CES 2024 is being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada with an estimated 130,000 attendees and over 4,000 exhibitors. CES (previously Consumer Electronics Show) has been held in Las Vegas every year since 1978, except for 2021 due to COVID-19. This was my ninth CES representing Semiconductor Intelligence, with… Read more“CES 2024”

CES 2024 featured a wide variety of robots to performs tasks such as vacuuming, lawn mowing, pool cleaning, coffee making, beer making, food serving, and deliveries. Some of the more interesting robots we saw at CES 2024 were: Friendly robot Creepy robot Robot dog Robot coffee maker Robot coffee and… Read more“CES 2024 Robots”