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Solutions to Address the Global #Microchip Shortages and Future
Demands
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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.
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featuring GTCH in full at https://www.investorideas.com/news/2021/technology/08091Microchip-GTCH-INTC-MXIM-MU.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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