#Chip #Stocks in the News as Shortages Continue (OTC PINK:
$GTCH) (NASDAQ: $INTC) (NASDAQ: $MXIM) (NASDAQ: $MU) @intel @maximintegrated
@MicronTech
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Roberts WA, Delta, BC – August 10, 2021 - Investorideas.com, a leading
investor news resource covering technology stocks releases a special report on
the microchip shortages currently impacting the global economy and how
companies are addressing the issue.
Read this article,
featuring GTCH in full at https://www.investorideas.com/news/2021/technology/08101Microchip-Shortages.asp
In
a recent
investing article on the sector it was noted, “An acute
shortage of semiconductors has been hurting several industries, with carmakers
and electronic goods manufacturers suffering the most. This has led many
carmakers to temporarily halt production, which is now affecting their sales
and revenues.”
Glenn O'Donnell, Vice President, Research
Director of Forrester Research said in his blog, “The pandemic
played a role in this demand surge, too. The surging demand seems to have
caught the chip fabs by surprise. Capacity has been increasing but not nearly
fast enough to keep up. The pandemic temporarily shut down chip fab capacity.
This caused a backup similar to the impact of the Ever Given fiasco on the Suez
Canal. That chip backlog is still taking time to flush through.”
“Because demand will remain high and supply
will remain constrained, we expect this shortage to last through 2022 and into
2023.”
GBT
Technologies Inc.
(OTC
Pin k: GTCH),
an early stage technology developer in (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Enabled Mobile Technology Platforms, is looking to bring a new solution to the
microchip sector. The Company recently announced it filed a
nonprovisional patent application for ICs automatic design rule correction
system and method; application #17391292 with the US Patent and Trademark
Office. The patent protects systems and
methods for automatic correction of geometrical design rule violations which
typically takes vast amount of time to correct manually.
From the news: These systems and
methods automatically correct the IC layout without any manual intervention,
maintaining its electrical connectivity while keeping compliance with Design
For Manufacturing (DFM) and Reliability Verification (RV) constraints. A
typical process of manual correction of design rule violations may take several
hours or even days, per layout block; and significantly, increases the overall
design time. The invention protects a system that can do the correction within
minutes using Artificial Intelligence and neural networks algorithms. Another
important aspect is the capability of the system to perform a full hierarchical
correction throughout the microchip’s sub-blocks. The number and complexity of
a microchip’s design rules have dramatically increased over the recent decade
especially in advanced nanometer processes of 7nm and below. This creates a
bottleneck of designing advanced chips in a reasonable time due to the design
rule violation complexity and amount. With a click-of-a-button this invention
automatically fixes design rule violations with and can be a major IC layout
productivity enhancement system, enabling higher silicon yield, bringing
microchip’s to market more quickly. IC design firms will benefit from designing
smaller chips, faster and much cheaper, which will create many new markets and
opportunities.
From the news: “This patent is a
major game changer especially for advanced microchips of 7nm and below. As
microchip’s manufacturing processes design rules are constantly getting more
complex. There is a need for enhancement technology to shorten the vast amount
of time invested in manual correction. Design rules are constraints dictated by
the fabrication process and must be obeyed to correctly manufacture the
integrated circuit. This invention protects a system and method for automatic
correction of geometrical design rules while maintaining the electrical
connectivity and other essential rules like reliability and DFM constraints.
This type of system is a significant productivity enhancer tool within any IC’s
design flow and will majorly reduce the overall chip’s design time including,
time to market factor. Additionally, design changes and modifications will be
able to be performed much faster and more efficiently. Microchips will be able
to be made faster, smaller and with increased silicon yield, enabling a much
higher profit margin. We strongly believe that this technology will create a
new standard in this arena enabling the production of more integrated circuits
in a much shorter time and with lower costs.”
GBT has assembled a
team with extensive technology expertise and is building an intellectual
property portfolio consisting of many patents. GBT’s mission is to license the
technology and IP to synergetic partners in the areas of hardware and software.
Once commercialized, it is GBT’s goal to have a suite of products including
smart microchips, AI, encryption, Blockchain, IC design, mobile security
applications, database management protocols, with tracking and supporting cloud
software (without the need for GPS).
Attesting to the high microchip demand, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) CEO, Pat
Gelsinger recently
told Yahoo
Finance Live he
has over 100 companies in the pipeline that want the tech giant to produce the
chips it designs.
"The industry needs the supply. Intel
is stepping into that with leading-edge technologies for a globally balanced
supply chain. This is good for the United States and it's good for the tech
industry," Gelsinger said.
Intel announced recently that it will begin making
chips for Qualcomm and Amazon. Gelsinger declined
to share the value of the deals, but noted the foundry business is a more than
$100 billion market.
Now Gelsinger just has to ramp up Intel's
infrastructure to turn that pipeline into cold, hard cash. Intel committed
itself to making chips for other companies in a bid to increase industry
capacity back in March near the start of Gelsinger's tenure as CEO. As part of
that ambition, Intel is
investing $20
billion to build new factories in Arizona.
More recently, the
WSJ reported
that Intel was eyeing a purchase of chipmaker GlobalFoundries for $30 billion.
GlobalFoundries is among the biggest specialist players in the chip industry.
The company was spun out of Advanced Micro Devices in 2008. It still counts AMD
as a key customer, making any potential purchase by Intel (a rival to AMD)
tricky.
Attesting to the growth in the sector, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM) recently
reported
net revenue of $720 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2021, ended June
26, 2021, an 8% increase from the $665 million revenue recorded in the prior
quarter, and a 32% increase from the same quarter of last year.
"Maxim delivered record revenue in the
June quarter, with sequential growth in all end markets, led by Industrial,
Automotive, and Comms & Data Center. On the merger front, we are seeking
final regulatory clearance for our combination with Analog Devices," said
Tunc Doluca, President and Chief Executive Officer.
The reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2021
adjusted earnings of 91 cents per share ended up beating the
Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5.81%. The bottom line increased 56.9% year over
year and 11% on a sequential basis.
Revenues of $719.9 million outpaced the
Zacks Consensus Estimate of $687.7 million. Also, the top line increased 32.1%
year over year and 8.3% on a sequential basis.
Top-line growth was primarily driven by the
company’s strong performance across the automotive, industrial and consumer
markets.
Micron
Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ:
MU),
recently
announced the
availability of Crucial P5 Plus PCIe SSDs as an expansion of its award-winning
NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) portfolio to offer high-performance internal Gen4
storage options to consumers. By leveraging Micron’s first-to-market volume
shipments of 176-layer NAND, Crucial P5 Plus SSDs enable lower power, higher
speed, and denser storage solutions. Additionally, Micron’s advanced 176L 3D
TLC NAND and innovative controller technology yields up to 66% faster
sequential write speeds and nearly double the sequential reads of prior
generation Crucial SSDs3.
From the news: “With data
intensive workloads on the rise, consumers increasingly demand high-performance
storage solutions for their needs including engineering applications, video
editing, content creation and gaming,” said Teresa Kelley, vice president and
general manager of Micron’s Consumer Products Group. “By using our powerful,
industry-leading 176-layer 3D NAND, coupled with the latest high-bandwidth
storage interface, the P5 Plus Gen4 SSD makes lightning-fast computing storage
accessible for a broad spectrum of consumers in the market.”
From the news: With read speeds
up to 6600MB/s, Crucial P5 Plus SSDs also enable up to 67% faster random read
and 40% faster random write performance over prior Crucial Gen3 SSDs4. Ideal
for a new PCIe Gen4 PC build or a PCIe Gen3 system upgrade, the P5 Plus is
compatible with both and has been tested on Intel and AMD platforms including
the latest 11th Generation Intel® CoreTM processors and AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0
motherboards. Likewise, these new Crucial PCIe Gen4 SSDs are backward
compatible for most Gen3 PC systems that support M.2 form factors.
From the news: The new
high-performance Crucial P5 Plus PCIe Gen4 SSD rounds out Crucial’s stellar
internal and external SSD product offerings such as the MX500, BX500, P5, P2,
X8 and X6. Additionally, all P5 Plus SSDs come with our Crucial Storage
Executive management software for performance optimization, data security and
firmware updates, as well as free cloning software to ensure easy installation
right out of the box.
From the news: As Micron’s global
consumer brand, Crucial is uniquely able to connect millions of customers to
the innovation and technology that Micron has been perfecting for more than
four decades. For 25 years, online tools like the Crucial System Scanner have made
it easy for customers such as content professionals, gamers, PC enthusiasts and
DIY system builders to find compatible memory (DRAM) and storage (SSD) products
for more than 175,000 desktops, laptops, and workstations. Crucial products are
available on www.crucial.com and worldwide from
leading retail and e-tail stores, commercial resellers and system integrators,
enhancing system performance and user productivity on every continent.
Glenn O'Donnell, Vice President, Research
Director of Forrester Research reminds us “Semiconductors have a powerful
ripple effect on products in other markets. If it has a plug or a battery, it
is probably full of chips. If the chip supply is tight, these other products
suffer delays or even cancellations.”
Demand is not going away anytime soon.
Microchip and semiconductor producers have their work cut out for them. Who
will win this race is anyone’s guess.
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