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IBM and GloFo settle dispute
GlobalFoundries and IBM have settled their lawsuit over IP and say they are looking at ways to co-operate in the future. The case, which has been going on since April 2023, arose from IBM’s transfer of its semiconductor unit to GloFo in 2015 and IBM’s subsequent transfer of technology to Rapidus and Intel. IBM’s deal with Rapidus was to build ...
Toppan Photomask rebrands as Tekscend
Semiconductor photomask supplier, Toppan Photomask will change its name to Tekscend Photomask, from 01 November. The new name is a combination of technology and ascend, said the company’s press release, a sign, it says, of its commitment to develop its technical capabilities and to grow as a photomask provider. The company’s new logo depicts a photomask over a semiconductor wafer. ...
Most Read – China and ASML, Intel’s 18A, IBM closing R&D
IBM closing its R&D units in China, ASML being threatened with long-term exclusion, US semi sales overtaking China's, Intel’s 18A process, China outspending everyone on semiconductor manufacturing equipment...
Most Read articles – Semi sales, NovoSat antenna, Battery life
There's a Gartner forecast for semiconductor sales, the NovoSat lightweight, dual-port, L Band antenna, IBM debuting the first in a new series of utility-scale quantum processors, Broadcom's novel on-chip, neural-network inference engine called NetGNT, and a guide to optimising energy efficiency in low power wireless technologies...
133qubit Quantum Heron launched by IBM
IBM has debuted ‘IBM Quantum Heron,’ the first in a new series of utility-scale quantum processors with an architecture engineered over the past four years to deliver IBM’s highest performance metrics and lowest error rates of any IBM Quantum processor to date. IBM also unveiled IBM Quantum System Two, the company’s first modular quantum computer and cornerstone of IBM’s quantum-centric ...
IBM’s analogue AI chip achieves 400Gop/s/mm2
IBM has revealed an analogue in-memory IC for implementing neural networks. The device stores weights locally as analogue levels as conductance in phase-change memory, and implements analogue multiply-accumulate calculation. For analogue AI processing “two key challenges need to be overcome: These memory arrays need to compute with precision on par with existing digital systems, and they need to be able ...
Most Read articles – ARM IPO, IBM quantum computer, Intel fab
There's a story about a copy-cat fab, Intel investing in ARM, an IBM quantum computer, a project for cooler chips in data centres, and Intel's new fab in Magdeburg being in doubt...
IBM quantum computer with 127 qubits out-performs traditional computers
IBM has shown that quantum computers can produce accurate results at a scale of 100+ qubits reaching beyond leading classical approaches. One of the ultimate goals of quantum computing is to simulate components of materials that classical computers have never efficiently simulate. But today’s quantum systems are inherently noisy and they produce a significant number of errors that hamper performance. This ...
IBM plans European quantum data centre
IBM has announced a European quantum computer data centre at its facility in Ehningen, for companies, research institutions and government agencies. This will be its second, after a quantum data centre in New York. Scheduled to operate in 2024, the German site will have “multiple IBM quantum computing systems, each with more than 100 qubits”, said IBM. “The data centre ...