This week in Chips Weekly by Diana, we dive into the stories shaping the global semiconductor race: 🇩🇪 GlobalFoundries expands its German fab with a €1.1 B investment, ⚙️ Germany faces new rare-earth and material shortages, and 🇰🇷 Nvidia + Samsung join forces to build South Korea’s AI chip superpower. In our Industry Spotlight, we explore the growing battle over export controls, chipmaking tools, and materials — and why control of technology inputs is becoming as powerful as the chips thems...
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This week in Chips Weekly by Diana, we dive into the stories shaping the global semiconductor race: 🇩🇪 GlobalFoundries expands its German fab with a €1.1 B investment, ⚙️ Germany faces new rare-earth and material shortages, and 🇰🇷 Nvidia + Samsung join forces to build South Korea’s AI chip superpower. In our Industry Spotlight, we explore the growing battle over export controls, chipmaking tools, and materials — and why control of technology inputs is becoming as powerful as the chips thems...
Origin Stories Ep.1 — Fairchild Semiconductor: The Birth of Silicon Valley
Chips Weekly by Diana
8 minutes
4 months ago
Origin Stories Ep.1 — Fairchild Semiconductor: The Birth of Silicon Valley
Welcome to the first episode of Chips Weekly – Origin Stories, a new Thursday series from Chips Weekly by Diana. Today we’re diving into the story of Fairchild Semiconductor, the revolutionary startup that gave rise to the modern chip industry — and Silicon Valley itself. From the rebellious “Traitorous Eight” to the invention of the planar process and the first commercial ICs, this episode tells the story of how one company changed the world of semiconductors forever. 📌 What you’ll hear:...
Chips Weekly by Diana
This week in Chips Weekly by Diana, we dive into the stories shaping the global semiconductor race: 🇩🇪 GlobalFoundries expands its German fab with a €1.1 B investment, ⚙️ Germany faces new rare-earth and material shortages, and 🇰🇷 Nvidia + Samsung join forces to build South Korea’s AI chip superpower. In our Industry Spotlight, we explore the growing battle over export controls, chipmaking tools, and materials — and why control of technology inputs is becoming as powerful as the chips thems...