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

Anand Tech

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled their plan to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years in a new semiconductor production mega cluster in South Korea. " Samsung's new campus will be located near Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, and will house five advanced fabs. " Indeed, China, Japan, the European Union, Taiwan, and the U.S.

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Sales of Fab Tools Surge to Over $71 Billion in 2020

Anand Tech

SEMI, an organization representing chipmakers and producers of semiconductor production tools, published this week that sales of wafer processing equipment has surged to an all-time record of $71.19 Thirdly, next-generation lithography equipment (both DUV and EUV) is getting more expensive, so are other tools used in clean rooms.

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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). That is, now you can somewhat start working inside your Quest browser on a big display using a mouse and keyboard. I can’t wait for them to be implemented in XR.

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Apple Slashes Vision Pro Production Plans

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Additionally, Apple is working with 11 Twainese firms to help deploy the Vision Pro, including Largan Precision Co, Genius Electronic Optical Co, GIS-KY, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Moreover, Apple is working with other major industry suppliers such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Sony for the Vision Pro debut.

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TSMC Roadmap Update: N3E in 2024, N2 in 2026, Major Changes Incoming

Anand Tech

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. But formal process technology leadership is what TSMC's engineers will have to maintain with N3 and it will be uneasy to do considering how aggressive Intel and Samsung are. has solid plans for the next few years, but the foundry's manufacturing technology design cycles are getting longer.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. Samsung is still working on AR glasses and its new internal prototype seems to be called SM-I120. Learn more. Learn more.

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Former HTC CEO Unveils 5G-enabled VR Headset & Social VR Platform

Road to VR

At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. Like Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, the headset only includes a single remote, which appears to have a touchpad and button array for basic input.

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