TSMC has launched mass production of chips labeled “Made in Japan”
The history of the emergence of the first TSMC enterprise in Japan was unique in its own way. Firstly, it was one of the first outside Taiwan in many years.…
US Commerce Secretary admits that sanctions against China are ineffective
The United States may reconsider relations with China. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the country should focus on investing in its own innovation rather than on restrictions and sanctions against…
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 the end of this week, guarantees for subsidies for the…
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 clients; as early as April next year, it expects to…
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 not yet been justified. That has led some investors to…
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 the Japanese one that has the highest compliance with the…
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 so-called “black list” of the Pentagon, suspected of serving the…
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, since they started the first day of trading below the…
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 manufacturers that must build new plants in the United States,…
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 chain, Reuters reported, citing lawyers representing the country’s government. Image…