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Chipmaker Intel said it plans to build a semiconductor plant in Germany as part of an investment of up to 80 billion euros ($88 billion) in Europe over the next decade. The initial outlay for the facility in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, is 17 billion euros ($19 billion), reports TechCrunch. The company is also in discussions with Italy to build an Assembly and packing facility there at a cost of up to $4.9 billion.

With geopolitical tensions now extending from Asia to Europe and from semiconductor manufacturing to raw material supply, capacity expansion and investment decisions will have to be reevaluated, says Counterpoint Research. Palladium is used in component production, like for the substrate in PCB.

You will be able to customise chipset of your choice for your smartphone soon as leading chip-makers have formed a coalition to establish a universal chiplet interconnect express (UCIe) standard. Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Arm, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and others have launched new chip technology to establish a chiplet ecosystem and future generations of chiplet technologies.

Taiwanese chipmaking giant MediaTek is reportedly planning to release its first 6nm G-series chip by the third quarter of the year. The company is expected to release the new chip based on the highly advanced 6nm manufacturing process to replace the Helio G96, which in itself, is a quite popular chipset, reports GizmoChina. The new G-series 6nm chip will have two Cortex-A76 cores running above 2.0 GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores powering at 2.0 GHz.

Apple remained at the top of the semiconductor spending customer ranking in 2021, increasing its spending on memory by 36.8 per cent and on non-memory chips by 20.2 per cent in 2021. However, it decreased its demand for computing micro processing units (MPUs) due to the shift to its own in-house-designed application processors, according to the report.

Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) allowed Musk to enter the country, saying that the consumers will be able to get access to the satellite-based broadband through companies buying capacity from the satellite network, or if existing sector players obtain an authorisation to operate.

The C2S programme aims to train 85,000 number of high-quality and qualified engineers in the area of Very large-scale integration (VLSI) and embedded system design as well as result in development of 175 ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), working prototypes of 20 System on Chips (SoC) and IP Core repository over a period of 5 years.

The CEO added, "laser links activate soon". In July 2021, Musk said that laser links in orbit can reduce long-distance latency by as much as 50 per cent, due to the higher speed of light in vacuum and shorter path than undersea fiber. A recent report said that the satellite internet division of SpaceX now has more than 1,45,000 users across 25 countries globally.

Until November 2021, SpaceX had added roughly 11,000 users per month since beginning service in October 2020, reports CNBC. SpaceX has about 1,800 Starlink satellites in orbit. Last year, Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference said Starlink should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months.

The Tesla and SpaceX chief's latest tweet evoked thousands of responses from social media users within minutes. American YouTuber Mr Beast was among the responders on Musk's tweet and said he would tutor the Tesla CEO how to get views on views on YouTube.