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Retail Asia18/03/2024

In October 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that Intel would reclaim process leadership from TSMC and Samsung Foundry by 2025. Intel is looking to challenge TSMC and Samsung Foundry in the contract foundry segment of the industry. A contract foundry takes the chip designs from fabless chip designers (fabless means that they do not own […]

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Retail Asia22/08/2023

Pringles is sure to fire up the tastebuds of snack aficionados across the country with its latest release, comprised of two new smoking-hot flavors. These spicy new Pringles – Sizzlin’ Chipotle Sour Cream and Smokin’ Cajun Spice – are exclusive to Australia and New Zealand and were co-created with Michelin Star Chef Haikal Kohari, who crafted […]

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Retail Asia10/07/2023

Chip autonomy is an ideal aspiration but it is advisable to avoid setting too big goals in the immediate future, an Intel Products Vietnam executive has told the government. In 2006, the U.S. chipmaker became the first foreign high-tech investor in Ho Chi Minh City. “The past 17 years have been a miraculous journey,” Kim […]

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Retail Asia22/05/2023

The U.S. has banned phones and networking equipment from Huawei and ZTE due to fears that these companies’ products have backdoors that send information to Beijing. This weekend, China went on the attack against U.S. memory chip maker Micron Technology by banning its chips from the country. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), Micron is […]

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Retail Asia28/04/2023

The world’s leading foundry, TSMC, is having problems meeting the demand for 3nm chips from Apple. The latter is TSMC’s largest customer, accounting for 25% of its revenue. Apple reportedly locked up all of TSMC’s 3nm production for this year and plans on debuting the 3nm A17 Bionic chipsets with the iPhone 15 Pro and […]

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Retail Asia07/12/2022

Confirming rumors that we first reported last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke this morning in Arizona and said that Apple will buy chips made in the U.S. by TSMC. The world’s largest chip foundry will start producing chips at its U.S. fab in 2024 and Apple has been looking to reduce its reliance on chips […]

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Retail Asia03/11/2022

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 1.02% to 1023.19 points Wednesday, with two-thirds of blue chips falling. The index closed 10.56 points lower after gaining 5.81 points on Tuesday. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) fell by 6% to VND10.10 trillion ($406.29 million). The VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest capped stocks, saw 22 […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2022

Telecommunication giant Viettel has proposed that it produces chips to meet domestic demand and for export in addition to offering e-payment services. Leaders of the military-owned Viettel Group made the proposal at a Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. The proposal was made in the context of the recent global chip shortage, which […]

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Retail Asia07/06/2022

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.16 percent to 1290.01 points Monday with a double-digit surge in trade as blue chip stocks climbed to the highest in weeks. The index closed two points higher after losing nearly one point on Friday. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) increased by 31 percent to VND16.94 trillion […]

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Retail Asia22/04/2022

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The two most advanced chip foundries in the world at the moment are Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung. With both providing phone manufacturers with chips produced using their 3nm process node next year, TSMC recently said that it will start shipping 2nm chips to customers in 2026. In theory, the lower this process node number […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2022

Qualcomm is looking to take its Snapdragon Wear chipset to a higher level while replacing the current Wear 4100 platform. Built on the 4nm process node, the Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100+ are both expected to improve the performance of Google’s wearable operating system thanks to the manufacturing process being used. While Samsung Foundry will […]

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Retail Asia21/02/2022

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said on Tuesday that the chip plant it is building in Japan with Sony Group will expand, with an extra $1.6 billion in spending, while auto supplier Denso Corp will take a 10% stake. TSMC, which is the world’s largest contract chipmaker, announced the $7 billion factories in southern Japan […]

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Retail Asia30/12/2021

Tesla had launched the new Model S and Model X which were equipped with AMD RDNA 2 based GPUs that deliver performance that’s comparable to the PlayStation 5 (PS5). And now, as revealed by a leak from its test program in Europe, it has also launched new models of the Model Y and Model 3 […]

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Retail Asia18/10/2021

Microsoft could be working on its own chips for future Surface devices, a LinkedIn job listing suggests. It reveals that the company is looking for a Director of SoC Architecture. Although the LinkedIn post by no means proves that Microsoft is working on a custom chip, it’s appearance roughly coincides with a rumor about Microsoft and AMD’s collaboration […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2021

Let’s use our imagination a little, shall we? Had the U.S. not placed Huawei on the Entity List for security reasons in 2019 and followed that up exactly a year to the day by changing Export rules banning Huawei from receiving chips from certain foundries using American technology, the smartphone market “league tables” would be different. Huawei […]

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Retail Asia28/07/2021

TSMC and Samsung, the two top contract foundries in the world, will soon have a new rival. Reuters reports that yesterday Intel announced that it will start producing chips for other companies such as Qualcomm and Amazon. Intel expects to challenge TSMC and Samsung by 2025. Intel was once the T-Rex of chipmakers, but Taiwan’s TSMC has become […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2021

As many of you know, we are in the middle of a chip shortage that has been impacting automobile and consumer electronic manufacturers. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees the shortage continuing throughout the remainder of this year, bottoming out during the second half of 2021 before things start to improve. In fact, the executive doesn’t […]

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Retail Asia01/06/2021

Intel Corp’s CEO said on Monday it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved, a problem that has shuttered some auto production lines and is also being felt in other areas, including consumer electronics. Pat Gelsinger told a virtual session of the Computex trade show in Taipei that the […]

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Retail Asia04/05/2021

Intel Corp said on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development (R&D) and confirmed it was spending $10 billion on a new chip plant. The announcement was made during a one-day visit to Israel by Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger as part of a European tour that […]

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Retail Asia23/10/2020

Singaporean cult snack brand Irvins Salted Egg has expanded online in the US and launching at several Asian specialty stores including 99 Ranch, Seafood City and H Mart. The popular brand, which has a cult following in Singapore and Hong Kong, especially, has pop-up style brick-and-mortar stores and sell-through in nine Asian countries. By going […]

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