China intends to put its focus on mature-node manufacturing for ICs instead of process miniaturization, aiming to elaborate innovation to boost the country's homegrown chipmaking...
While China is moving at full throttle toward the 'domestic substitution' goal for semiconductor equipment and materials, Chinese customers are also frantically placing orders or...
Following two years of US sanctions, Chinese foundry champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) has been focusing on legacy process nodes like 28nm.
Semiconductor manufacturers worldwide are forecast to increase 300mm fab capacity to an all-time high of 9.6 million wafers per month in 2026, according to SEMI.
The US' escalation of the chip war with China has prompted more companies to shift their orders to Taiwan-based pure-play foundries. However, contract prices provided by TSMC and...
The Biden administration announced guardrails for the CHIPS Act to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and restrict foreign entities of concern from acquiring advanced technologies...
As the US rallies Japan and the Netherlands to tighten up semiconductor export controls against China, the world has been trying to estimate the extent of damage done to the Chinese...
With the US looking to broaden its chip tool ban against China with new rules set to be implemented in April, SMIC and other China-based foundries will have to halt the development...
Chinese CPU designer Loongson Technology is seen as China's representative to challenge international mainstream instruction set architectures (ISAs), Intel's x86 and Arm, with its...
The US' broader chip equipment ban against China will stymie Semiconductor Manufacturing International's (SMIC) sub-40nm process development, according to industry sources.
In the semiconductor industry, talent has always been a persistent topic. The competition for high-level semiconductor talent among countries has never stopped. In recent years, with...
On the investor relations interactive platform P5W, SMIC was quizzed by investors regarding its delayed mass production, especially pertaining to the delivery of its bottleneck...
According to Knometa Research, Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix held 76% of the leading-edge capacity at the end of 2022, with the majority of it going toward...
The next-generation iPhone slated for launch later in 2023 will be powered by Apple's custom-designed 3nm SoC fabricated by TSMC, marking the market's long-awaited transition from...