Toshiba will increase the production of pure electric vehicle power semiconductor and invest about 25 billion yen.

German technology group Bosch said on Monday it would open an automotive chip factory in Dresden in June to build on its leadership in sensor chips that will boost the electric car industry. The $1.2 billion plant will produce sensor chips to be installed in electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Bosch began testing the fully automated production of prototype chips, a step towards starting full-scale production at the end of the year, it said.

A new report indicates TSMC’s 3nm process node is still on track, with plans to move into risk production in 2021. Apple is said to have already locked in most of TSMC’s early 3nm capacity.

Driven by such factors as the continued development of autonomous driving technologies and the build-out of 5G infrastructure, the demand for automotive memories will undergo a rapid growth going forward, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations...

Due to the tight supply of wafer capacity and the rise in wafer and package prices, Taiwan-based MCU manufacturer Holtek decided to increase the price of all IC shipments by 15% from April 1st. This is the first time Holtek has raised prices for its product line...

On February 1, Samsung Electronics expressed its intention to acquire automotive semiconductor companies under the current situation of global chip shortages. NXP, TI, Renesas among Target Companies.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) is "expediting" auto-related products through its wafer fabs and reallocating wafer capacity, the company said on Thursday, amid a global shortage of auto chips.

Due to the global shortage of semiconductors, global foundry manufacturers such as TSMC and UMC are discussing raising the foundry prices of automotive semiconductors by up to 15%. At the same time, as foundries have been willing to increase prices, global automotive chip manufacturers including Renesas, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba, etc. have already considered raising the prices of many products by 10% to 20%.

Allegro MicroSystems has launched the ACS37800, a Hall-effect power monitoring IC for single-phase AC and DC solutions in a small PCB footprint.

Microchip Technology has announced a radiation-hardened mixed-signal motor controller belonging to its Space System Manager (SSM) product family.