COMPANY NEWS: Intel today announced that its lead products on Intel 18A, Panther Lake (AI PC client processor) and Clearwater Forest (server processor), are out of the fab and have powered-on and booted operating systems. These milestones were achieved less than two quarters after tape-out, with both products on track to start production in 2025. The company also announced that the first external customer is expected to tape out on Intel 18A in the first half of next year.
Swedish startup BeammWave has announced it has helped its customers unlock the speed and connectivity promise of 5G with disruptive new technologies, by using tools offered by Cadence built on Amazon Web Services.
Open source data infrastructure specialist Instaclustr now offers Instaclustr Managed Cadence on the Instaclustr Platform.
The American semiconductor industry will not survive a tech war with China, both US and Chinese tech industry sources have told the Asia Times, with the only party believing that Washington will prevail being the Trump administration.
The US obsession with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies may be well-intentioned, but could end up seriously harming the country's economy and national security, a senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, says, in an article written as a brief for the Centre and sent to subscribers of The China Wire website in its weekly email titled "What we're reading this week".
A China expert has predicted that the US Government may end up shooting itself in the foot by weaponising the semiconductor supply chain.