A report from SEMI forecasts a 2% decline in global silicon wafer shipments for 2024. However, demand is expected to rebound strongly by 10% in 2025 as the market recovers from the current downturn.

Samsung is establishing advanced manufacturing facilities at its Hwaseong plant to enable mass production using a 2nm process. The company is also preparing to install equipment for a 1.4nm production line at its Pyeongtaek II plant.

Chip giant Marvell announces price increases across its entire product line effective January 1, 2025.

Qualcomm has issued an important security warning regarding serious “zero-day vulnerabilities” affecting up to 64 of its chipsets. Identified as CVE-2024-43047, this vulnerability poses widespread risks to users.

Samsung Electronics announced the successful development of its first 24Gb GDDR7 (seventh-generation Graphics Double Data Rate memory).

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South Korea's semiconductor exports reached a record high of $13.63 billion in September.

The Japanese government is considering investing in the semiconductor foundry Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips by 2027.

Vietnam aims to emerge as a significant player in the semiconductor sector by 2050, planning to construct three wafer foundries and 20 packaging and testing facilities within that timeframe.

At the Advancing AI 2024 conference in San Francisco, AMD introduced the Instinct MI325X AI accelerator, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Nvidia's Blackwell chip.

Microsoft has acquired NVIDIA's GB200 superchip for AI servers, becoming the first global cloud service provider to utilize the Blackwell architecture.

AMD has reached an agreement with TSMC to produce 5nm high-performance chips at TSMC's new factory in Arizona.