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Samsung, Texas Instruments and Amkor will receive US subsidies worth $6.75 billion

The outgoing US government has accelerated the resolution of issues affecting the development of the local semiconductor industry, so by…

4 weeks ago

Japanese 2nm chips are getting closer: Rapidus received the first ASML lithographic EUV scanner

The young Japanese company Rapidus expects to establish serial production of 2-nm semiconductor products by 2027 on orders from various…

1 month ago

New lawsuit against Intel blames management for failures of Foundry’s contract business

Investor expectations related to the restructuring of Intel, which was started in 2022 by now former CEO Patrick Gelsinger, have…

1 month ago

TSMC will start producing “Made in Japan” chips for Sony and others any day now

Of all the projects being implemented by TSMC outside Taiwan to build factories for the production of chips, it is…

1 month ago

In a rare case: a Chinese semiconductor company achieved exclusion from the US sanctions list

This year did not start very well for the Chinese lithography equipment manufacturer AMEC, as it was included in the…

1 month ago

The third largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world finally went public – shares immediately rose by 7.6%

The epic with the release of shares of the Japanese company Kioxia on the Tokyo Stock Exchange successfully ended today,…

1 month ago

The US allocated $406 million to Taiwanese silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers

In distributing funds under the so-called “CHIP Act” of 2022, Joseph Biden administration officials were primarily concerned with large chip…

1 month ago

Apple does not shun the use of conflict minerals, passing them off as pure ones, they found out in the Congo and sued the company

The Democratic Republic of Congo has sued Apple's subsidiaries in France and Belgium for using conflict minerals in its supply…

1 month ago

TSMC’s European plant will receive all of the promised 5 billion euros in subsidies

The official ceremony of laying the foundation of the first TSMC enterprise in Europe took place back in August of…

1 month ago

Elon Musk has officially moved the SpaceX headquarters to Texas, and will turn Starbase into a city

Difficult relationships with the authorities of individual states of billionaire Elon Musk, whose wealth is now estimated at at least…

1 month ago