According to a Wall Street Journal report on the 8th, the U.S. Department of Commerce will announce the application process for companies related to the "Chip Act" on February 23.……

According to Bloomberg News, Rene Haas, CEO of Arm, a British chip technology company owned by Softbank, said recently that the company is committed to going public this year, saying that new markets and improved chips are the key to the company's continued growth...

Based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor, consulting firm Janco Associates released a report showing that a total of 4,700 jobs were cut in the U.S. IT field in January...

Not long ago, Japan and the Netherlands reached an agreement with the United States to restrict the export of advanced process chip manufacturing equipment to China. This will not only affect the three countries of the United States, Japan and the Netherlands, but also indirectly affect other countries including Germany...

Previously, Samsung Electronics announced that Samsung's second-generation 3nm GAA process will be mass-produced as scheduled in 2024. According to the South Korean website Sammobile, Samsung Electronics is short of manpower for 3nm process chips...

According to Nikkei Asia, Japan will undertake some of the capital investment related to various semiconductors, expanding incentives for domestic chip manufacturing beyond cutting-edge products...

In the downturn of the storage industry, Western Digital announced a further reduction in equipment investment and production...

Arm announced its financial report for the third quarter of 2022, with a single-quarter revenue of US$746 million, a year-on-year increase of 28%. Among them, the shipments of chips using Arm architecture by partners reached 8 billion pieces...

On February 6, "Lianhe Zaobao" quoted Japanese media news that the Japanese government basically decided to implement export controls in order to prevent cutting-edge semiconductor technology from being diverted to military use, and emphasized that this move is in consideration of China...

According to Bloomberg's report on the 6th, Dell will lay off about 6,650 people. A company spokesman said that the number of layoffs accounts for about 5% of the total number of employees worldwide...