Chinese state-backed enterprises are expanding their presence in the semiconductor industry, the latest example being China Resources' takeover of backend house Jiangsu Changjiang...
In university, I studied electrical engineering, and at that time, semiconductors were an emerging field. The electronics courses we took still taught vacuum tubes. It wasn't until...
Kumamoto, a small Japanese city that suffered a devastating earthquake in 2016, recently witnessed a momentous occasion--the grand opening of TSMC's Kumamoto Fab 1. Dubbed the "Reiwa...
At the 2024 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, Kevin Zhang, TSMC's senior vice president of business development and overseas operations, delivered...
Taiwan's machinery and electronics manufacturing sectors are rapidly integrating into a "mechatronics supply chain," with a dedicated "precision machinery zone" to be...
The government of Vietnam decided to ramp up support for the semiconductor industry and announced plans to roll out a series of tax incentives and set up investment funds by mid-2024...
The Longtan Science Park's third-phase development project, located in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, intended for TSMC's 1.4nm wafer fab but abandoned for numerous reasons, is now slated...
Geopolitical pressures and changes in industrial structure are driving strategic collaborations among semiconductor companies, with various countries or regions incentivized for partnerships,...
China's top foundry, SMIC, has never disclosed its involvement in producing 7nm chips for Huawei's Mate 60 Pro. However, co-CEO Zhao Haijun recently emphasized that the bright spot...
Canada is following in the footsteps of various countries to participate in the ongoing reshoring recalibrations for the semiconductor supply chains and develop its competitiveness...
Taiwan-based polarizer maker Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT) has acquired a 33.7% stake in Opals Chemical Technology, a subsidiary of Advanced Echem Materials Company (AEMC),...
In the second half of the 1990s, Samsung Electronics came to the forefront of Dataquest's DRAM manufacturer rankings. NEC and Toshiba were in second and third place, and other Japanese...
While the recent US CHIPS and Science Act, European Chips Act, and Japan's subsidy plan have enticed TSMC to build wafer fabs in the US, Germany, and Japan, Taiwan has responded with...
Amid sluggish demands across the board, Texas Instruments reported declining performance over the past quarter and provided weak financial guidance for the next period, signaling...
