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Acer says it 'can only fill 50% of the worldwide demand' due to chip shortage
By Katie Wickens published
news Also expects shortage to extend until mid 2022. Yay...

Intel prepares to send its first 7nm CPU off for manufacturing
By Katie Wickens published
News But where will the final Meteor Lake chip be made?

AMD agrees to $1.6B in new chips from GloFo for its manufacturing freedom
By Jacob Ridley published
News AMD is so close to complete manufacturing independence.

IBM's breakthrough 2nm chip tech is Intel's clearest path to teeny tiny CPUs
By Katie Wickens published
News 'Its tiniest components are smaller than a strand of DNA.'

Acer is confident the PC component shortage will ease by second half of 2021
By Katie Wickens published
News The "happy problem" should lead to improvements in the supply chain soon.

GlobalFoundries to double expansion investment to $1.5 billion this year
By Katie Wickens published
News A part of the specialty wafer manufacturers bid to ease the current stresses on the market.

TSMC was all booked up, now it's auctioning excess wafer capacity
By Katie Wickens published
News Where was all this surplus semiconductor manufacturing capacity hiding?

World-leading chip makers TSMC threatened by Taiwan water crisis
By Katie Wickens published
News Lack of typhoons could see the megafoundry drowning in orders it can't fill, come red alert.
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