Nvidia executive vice president of operations Debora Shoquist said in a statement that "recent reports are incorrect - Nvidia's next-generation GPU will continue to be produced at TSMC. Nvidia already uses both TSMC and Samsung for manufacturing, and we plan to use both foundries for our next-generation GPU products."

By designing its own baseband chips, Apple could protect its margins and be less dependent on vendors such as Qualcomm.

Japan's tightening of controls on the export of semiconductor materials to South Korea could hit Samsung's production hard.

China continues to stress that the US must remove all the tariffs placed on Chinese goods as a condition for reaching a trade deal.

The US government said on Wednesday it was reviewing license requests from US companies seeking to export products to China's Huawei Technologies "under the highest national security scrutiny" since the company is still blacklisted.

Microchip already has development centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad and currently has 1,800 employees in India.

The Chinese telecoms group is determined to accelerate efforts to become self-reliant.

Samsung Electronics is likely to say second-quarter profit more than halved when it reports preliminary earnings on Friday, data showed, as a drop in memory chip shipments to China's embattled Huawei exacerbated a price-squeezing supply glut.

Japan tightened controls on exports to South Korea in an unexpected blow to the global technology supply chain that also marks a new low point in relations between the two US allies.

The latest data on semiconductor sales is pointing to stabilization in the industry, suggesting that months of weakness and tepid demand could be nearing an end, analysts said on Monday.

Intel, in collaboration with 10 industry leaders in automotive and autonomous driving technology, has published "Safety First for Automated Driving," a framework for the design, development, verification and validation of safe automated passenger vehicles (AVs). The paper builds on Intel's model for safer AV decision-making known as Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS).

Nvidia Korea chief Yoo Eung-joon said that its production of advanced GPUs will be conducted by Samsung Electronics with its 7-nanometer extreme ultraviolet process.

Broadcom is in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity firm Symantec, according to people familiar with the matter, seeking a further expansion into the more profitable software business.

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son says he wants to re-list ARM Holdings Plc within five years, re-introducing stock markets to the British chipmaker his company bought for $32 billion in 2016.

For the global semiconductor industry, the just-revealed truce in the "trade war" between US President Donald Trump and China's president Xi Jinping is welcome news but hardly the end of a poorly scripted economic melodrama that continues to pose dire consequences for the American semiconductor market.

Intel is getting rather concerned at AMD's Zen 2 advancements and an internal memo that just leaked out to public venues indicates that AMD is starting to give Chipzilla a good kicking in its reptilian diodes.

President Donald Trump's decision to allow US companies to continue selling to Huawei followed an extensive lobbying campaign by the US semiconductor industry that argued the ban could hurt America's economic and national security.

The US company aims to purchase all of the former Hitachi group member from American private equity group KKR by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.

Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of Huawei Technologies whose daughter's arrest in Vancouver triggered a diplomatic crisis between China and Canada, said the company still wants to make the country its "global center for theoretical research."

Trump said Saturday that "US companies can sell their equipment to Huawei," as long as the transactions won't present a "great, national emergency problem."

The Wall Street Journal has reported that AMD's 2016 joint venture known as Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment, or THATIC, allowed a company with ties to the Chinese military to obtain chip technology that could boost China's supercomputer efforts.

One of Huawei's biggest rivals - Nokia - has said the UK should be wary of using the Chinese firm's equipment. The Finnish company said Huawei's telecoms kit had vulnerabilities that meant it posed a risk to 5G networks.

Israeli startup NeuroBlade said on Wednesday it has completed a $23 million early funding round, led by Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, with the participation of new investor Intel Capital.

Jony Ive, a close creative collaborator with Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs whose iPhone and other designs fueled Apple's rise to become a $1 trillion company, will leave later this year to form an independent design company.

The 120W Super FlashCharge tech is easily a highlight of MWC 2019 Shanghai, as it could help set new battery charging standards for mobile devices.

A U.S. jury on Wednesday cleared California semiconductor designer CNEX Labs of stealing trade secrets from Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies while awarding CNEX no damages on its own trade theft claims.

The US and China have tentatively agreed to another truce in their trade war in order to resume talks aimed at resolving the dispute, sources familiar with the situation said.

Bitcoin's price has almost quadrupled in the last six months.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday the outlook for the U.S. economy has become cloudier since early May, with rising uncertainties over trade and global growth causing the central bank to reassess its next move on interest rates.

Mike Filippo joined Apple last month with the title Architect, according to his LinkedIn profile.

"She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

Tesla is developing the means to manufacture its own battery cells, current and recent employees told CNBC.

Researchers find thousands of exploitable vulnerabilities; findings bolster Trump administration's stance

EU antitrust regulators want U.S. chipmaker Broadcom to scrap its exclusivity clauses with TV and modem makers to avoid irreparable harm to the market while they investigate whether this tactic and others are designed to block rivals.

Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics will replace its CEO just three months after reappointing him, reflecting a rift among top management as ambitious purchases weigh on the company's finances.

Apple is expected to replace Intel chips that typically power MacBooks with ARM-based creations of its own, and we keep seeing rumors pointing in that direction.

Apple plans to expand its presence in Seattle by adding 2,000 new jobs in the city over the next five years, double the number it originally planned to hire.

FedEx says it's not realistic to screen sealed packages for controlled tech.

Prime Day is back and will last a record 48 hours next month from July 15-16, when Prime members can shop for more than one million deals.

Qualcomm may have to pay a second big fine to the European Union over antitrust concerns for how it handled sales of 3G chips for mobile hotspot and dongles, just over a year after the chip maker was issued a $1.23 billion financial penalty for illegally shutting out modem rivals from supplying Apple.