Semiconductor Weekly | 20221122

1. TSMC replaced Samsung and won a large order for Tesla's assisted driving (FSD) chips, which will be produced at 4/5 nanometers.


2. TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou confirmed: TSMC will set up a 3-nanometer fab in the United States.


3. It is reported that NVIDIA RTX 40 mobile graphics card will be released in January 2023.


4. Arm delays London launch to late 2023.


5. Naver reported on November 20 that Samsung Electronics has expanded cooperation with US company Silicon Frontline Technology to improve the yield of semiconductor chips in the production process, hoping to overtake rival TSMC.


6. Micron announced that the LPDDR5X memory has been mass-produced and shipped after being incorporated into the main architecture design of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip.


7. UMC: 2023 will be challenging, and price reduction will have limited effect on improving capacity utilization.


8. Institutions: The cumulative production reduction in the global auto market will climb to 4,278,500 by theend of this year.