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TSMC Delays Arizona Fab Deployment to 2025, Citing Shortage of Skilled Workers

Anand Tech

TSMC on Thursday disclosed that it will have to delay mass production at its Fab 21 in Arizona to 2025, as a lack of suitably skilled workers is slowing down the installation of cleanroom tools. The company also confirmed that it is sending in hundreds of people familiar with its fabs from Taiwan to Arizona to assist the installation. "We

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Samsung Seeks to Make South Korea No. 1 Chipmaker with $230B Investment Over 20 Years

Anand Tech

The country's government believes that the new chip manufacturing site and the expansion of existing fabs will make South Korea the world's largest producer of chips, de-throning Taiwan. "The " Interestingly, the South Korean government plans to nurture ten fabless firms with annual sales of over 1 trillion won ($761.4

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Micron to Bring EUV to Japan: 1? Process DRAM to Be Made in Hiroshima in 2025

Anand Tech

The company will be the first chipmaker to use EUV for volume production in Japan and its fabs in Hiroshima and Taiwan will be its first sites to use the upcoming 1γ technology. To equip its fab with advanced tools, Micron secured ¥46.5 billion ($320 million) grant from the Japanese government last September.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 3: Vive Pro Eye hands on, meeting with iStaging, Lyra VR and Women in XR!

The Ghost Howls

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is the first step towards the Infinite Office solution that FRL wants to offer in some months , transforming the Quest into some kind of work tool (or trying to do so). The number is a bit little, because every game arriving there, like everything in China, must be approved by the government before being published.

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IAAPA Update from Location-Based VR Expert, Bob Cooney

XR for Business Podcast

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. And I think that it’s a really powerful tool.

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IAAPA Update from Location-Based VR Expert, Bob Cooney

XR for Business Podcast

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. And I think that it’s a really powerful tool.