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☆ Apple, Google, Nvidia and other tech giants are considering buying Arm shares
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Chip design firm Arm said in a Tuesday filing that Apple , Google parent Alphabet , Nvidia and other technology companies are interested in buying up to $735 million in its shares as it seeks to go public on Nasdaq. Chip foundry operators Intel , Samsung and TSMC are interested in investing alongside the three trillion-dollar technology companies, along with AMD and MediaTek, which make chip designs based on Arm architectures. In 2020, Nvidia announced plans to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion, but regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. pushed back. The fact that Nvidia wasn't able to buy Arm didn't stop Nvidia's co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang from talking up Arm during the chip-design company's IPO roadshow. WATCH: Portfolio manager discusses the investment risks around Arm's IPO

Persons: Chip, SoftBank, Nvidia's, Jensen Huang, Huang, Huang isn't, Rick Tsai Organizations: Apple, Google, Nvidia, Nasdaq, Intel, Samsung, AMD, Design Systems Locations: London, New York, SoftBank, U.S

[1/3] Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan May 29, 2023. Under the agreement, announced at the Computex technology trade show in Taipei, MediaTek will integrate an Nvidia graphic processing unit chiplet and Nvidia software into the system-on-chips it supplies to automakers for infotainment displays. MediaTek systems using Nvidia software would be compatible with automated driving systems based on Nvidia technology, the companies said. The partnership with MediaTek gives Nvidia wider access to the $12 billion market for infotainment system-on-chips, the companies said. MediaTek, which has its base in the Android smartphone chip sector, sells its Dimensity Auto technology to lower-priced, mass market vehicle lines, and has strengths in mobile connectivity and Android systems.

☆ Top Taiwan chip designer MediaTek 'rapidly' shifts focus to autos, AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Sarah Wu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TAIPEI, April 28 (Reuters) - Taiwan's top chip design company MediaTek is focusing more resources on chips for cars and AI computing as its smartphone clients face a supply glut and inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty dent demand for consumer electronics. "We are definitely moving our resources very, very rapidly towards the automotive and computing areas, because those areas will provide our growth in the next three to five years," MediaTek Inc (2454.TW) Chief Executive Rick Tsai told an earnings call. Tsai said everyone, including MediaTek, was rushing to claim that they were able to support generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT. MediaTek is investing heavily in AI because the new areas the company is focusing on are all related to computing, Tsai said. While smartphone demand has remained lacklustre in the first quarter, the company expects signs of recovery later this year.

[1/2] Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/IllustrationTAIPEI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has decried what she called "rumours" about the risk of investing in the island's semiconductor industry and said the government was working hard to ensure investments continued. But the Chinese military's menacing of the island to assert Beijing's sovereignty claims, especially after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei in August, is causing the chip industry to rethink the risk surrounding Taiwan. Tsai, who met with ASML Holding's (ASML.AS) chief operations officer Frederic Schneider-Maunoury on Tuesday, praised the European manufacturer of chip-making equipment for its commitment to investing in Taiwan. Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Sarah Wu; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Edwina GibbsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

REUTERS/Florence Lo/IllustrationTAIPEI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has decried "rumours" about the risk of investing in the island's key semiconductor industry, saying the government was working hard to ensure such investments continued. But the Chinese military's menacing of the island to assert Beijing's sovereignty claims, especially after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei in August, is causing the chip industry to rethink the risk over Taiwan. Meeting Frederic Schneider-Maunoury, chief operations officer of ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS), a key equipment supplier to chip companies like TSMC, Tsai praised the European company for its commitment to investing in Taiwan. "I believe that this also discredits rumours of excessive speculation about Taiwan's risk," she added. Tsai said that investing in Taiwan was "definitely a very correct direction" and the government will continue to provide support.

☆ Smartphone chip firm MediaTek CEO sees 'incremental' move away from Taiwan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Jane Lanhee Lee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Tensions between China and the United States are pushing some manufacturer companies to talk about moving some of their supply chain away from Taiwan as well, although it’s “incremental,” the head of Taiwan’s most important smartphone chip design firm told Reuters over the weekend. Some of the "very large (equipment manufacturers) will require their chip suppliers to have multiple sources, like from Taiwan and from U.S., or from Germany or from Europe," said MediaTek Inc (2454.TW) Chief Executive Rick Tsai. "I think in those cases, we will have to find multiple sources for the same chip if the business warrants that." While MediaTek's most advanced smartphone chips are made at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) in Taiwan, Tsai said some older smartphone chips are made by GlobalFoundries Inc (GFS.O), which has factories in places like the U.S. and Singapore, and pointed to an announcement earlier this year to make its chips at Intel Corp’s (INTC.O) fabrication facilities. Tsai said the "Intel 16" chip manufacturing technology that MediaTek has committed to use fits well for producing MediaTek chips for smart TVs and Wi-Fi.

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