IC Supply/demand Tightens G. Dan Hutcheson Semiconductor Analytics Semiconductor sales continued to explode out of the normal Christmas roll-over with double-digit W/W and Y/Y growth, as IC Supply/Demand tightened up. The IC weather warmed 2°F last week. VLSI's IC Supply/Demand indices tightened

Qualcomm announced the QET7100 – the successor to the QET6100, which they dubbed the "world’s first announced 5G 100MHz envelope tracking solution."

Intel disclosed dozens of new Alder Lake products for both laptop and desktop PCs. The 12th Generation products offer sizable performance gains over earlier models, but often at higher prices.

In 2021, image processors (ISPs) became a hot topic in smartphone processors. 5G became an essential feature for midrange and premium phones, but CPU improvements are taken for granted.

Amazon recently revealed its third-generation server processor, with instances now in preview availability. Graviton3 uses Arm’s Neoverse V1 CPU while maintaining the 64-core count of its predecessor.

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