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Intel to invest 20 billion USD for chip factories in Europe, 100 billion planned in total
According to the latest news, the famous chip manufacture Intel has stated that the company is planning to invest 20 billion USD in establishing semiconductor factories in Europe, this will further expand to 100 billion in the coming years.
The project chief executive- Pat Gelsinger, French president- Emmanuel Macron, and Italian prime minister- Mario Draghi recently gathered regarding this project. The authorities discuss the global chip cutback that greatly strikes the European industries and other markets.
In the case of initiating this project, semiconductor production is expected to realize an increase of 20% in the coming decade across the global market. Furthermore, the company also intends to develop the most advanced chips for high stream computing power.
Interview with Greg Slater, Intel vice-president of global regulatory affairs
In an interview, the chief executive told that if Intel’s specifications for the project will achieve, the Europen chip market will be benefited from the company’s technology, and chip production will get more support to grow.
The official also said that we could allot separate manufacturing and packaging sites. It’ll grow more opportunities for the team to explore. Furthermore, we can also share the research and development work in the different European states, to spread the suppliers across the globe.
The main goal of the company to expand this project at a large scale and establish a wide ecosystem. It’ll not be limited to a single state only, instead expand its limits for the maximum benefits in the country.
Project Requirements:
The executive mentioned the following specification for the plan, the plants have to be good enough to support eight chip design abilities. Furthermore, the final call will carry out by the end of the year.
Site Area: 1,000 acres (estimates)
Expected Manufacturing: Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium
Initial Investment: 20 billion USD (for 10 years)
Estimated Investment: 100 billion USD (maximum for a lifetime)
French Response: We are looking for the feasible situation
On the proposal of Intel, the French executives responded that indeed Intel wants to introduce 10-nanometre chip technology or even sound in our country. However, it takes a handsome amount of money to establish yourself among the worldwide most advanced technologies.
We’ll discuss this matter further with our consumers if it suites their needs. Moreover, we are planning to go with the most feasible situation. Adding to this it’s really difficult to ensure the states’ funding and plant’s competitiveness. “The cost deprivation is expected to 30-40% with Asia.
The official explained that Intel wasn’t just wanting a contribution, instead, the company wants an entire ecosystem. We don’t have the problem regards the investing sum, but its complex set of circumstances, which is hard to achieve for the moment.
Moreover, Intel is investing 20 USD in two new factories in the US and plans to double the plant on Irelan by investing 7 billion USD. The company explains this as a multiyear strategy to compete with TSMC and Samsung. Additionally, it’ll develop 7nm chips.
(Via- FinancialTimes)
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Huawei has finalized the design of the P60 series and the flagship could appear at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 at the earliest, which is piece of amazing news.
Input coming from different Weibo tipsters suggests that Huawei has confirmed the design of the Huawei P60 series. It is the first camera module that has a giant ring in the middle followed by a camera on the top and a periscope camera placed on the bottom side.
These tipsters have seen the test model, and the company is likely to keep the below-featured camera system, unlike the one that surfaced recently. The camera bump is rectangular and houses all of the sensors inside, making it a hybrid version of P50 and P40 devices.
MWC 2023:
Another tipster suggested that the Huawei P60 series revealing could occur at MWC 2023, which will be a surprise. However, the tipster insists that it could be the earliest launch attempt that the Chinese tech maker may choose to go with.
MWC Barcelona is an annual event and 2023’s conference will start from February 27, 2023, to March 2, 2023. So, the company could book the last week of this month to open the launch or by early in March.
At MWC 23, Honor will also participate in the launch of its new foldable device. This leads us to a prediction that, Huawei Mate X3 is also ready to enter among consumers and it would make sense, as this new foldable device is ready to raise the curtain.
Past information:
Huawei P60 series could be the most powerful camera smartphone, as it will feature a large sensor to boast better light. Also, it will debut variable aperture in the P series, which is another advantage for this flagship family.
For now, Huawei has not made an official announcement about the launch date. However, there is more information that will appear to amaze us.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
