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Friday 9 December 2022
ASML undaunted by Dutch export controls?
The Dutch government has succumbed to Washington's pressures, despite earlier comments from Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher that the Netherlands would not "copy...
Friday 9 December 2022
US, Taiwan IC design houses cutting wafer starts at China foundries
US and Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers have increasingly moved to scale down wafer starts at China-based foundries, according to industry sources.
Monday 5 December 2022
Huawei quietly building own semiconductor ecosystem, eyeing more equipment, materials and support from Taiwan
Huawei is making a low-key entry into multiple semiconductor segments to build its own semiconductor ecosystem, and since mid-2022 the Chinese tech giant has made long-term cooperation...
Tuesday 29 November 2022
SMIC unveils 12-inch fab expansion project over next 5-7 years
China foundry leader Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) recently revealed that a monthly capacity of 340,000 12-inch wafers would be generated when its new fabs come...
Monday 28 November 2022
SMIC gets caught in fresh US trade curbs (Part 2)
Some industry sources believe that SMIC developed and produced 7nm chips using immersion DUV equipment. If confirmed, the foundry house faces a risk of raging the US government and...
Monday 28 November 2022
SMIC gets caught in fresh US trade curbs (Part 1)
China's three bellwether semiconductor firms, Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT),...
Friday 25 November 2022
2023 Outlook: China in sanction aftershock, TSMC sees limited impacts
Year 2022 marks a new height of the US-China chip war, with the US government imposing unprecedented sanctions against China's semiconductor sector. As the year draws to a close,...
Monday 14 November 2022
SMIC increases capex to secure equipment, talent not affected by US restrictions
China's largest chip foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) expressed pessimism about the possibility of a business turnaround in the near term during its...
Friday 11 November 2022
SMIC expects over 10% revenue drop in 4Q22
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 13-15% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2022, with gross margin...
Thursday 27 October 2022
Major foundries see lead times for fab tools shorten
Tougher US controls of semiconductor tech exports to China have considerably increased the availability of fab tools available and brought up the fab toolmakers' inventory levels,...
Tuesday 25 October 2022
TSMC, Samsung face difficulty in ramping up 3nm chip production
Both TSMC and Samsung Electronics are seeing their production scale for 3nm chips constrained due to difficulty in having good control of orders from big clients, and their capacity...
Wednesday 19 October 2022
Shang-Yi Chiang says he will never return to work in China
TSMC's former R&D heavyweight Shang-Yi Chiang unexpectedly appeared at the recent annual Hon Hai Tech Day (HHTD) and participated in three forums, sparking speculation about whether...
Tuesday 18 October 2022
Who's in control of SMIC technology advances?
A TechInsight report disclosed in July 2022 that Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) had been shipping 7nm chips made with 14nm equipment for the MinerVa Bitcoin...
Thursday 13 October 2022
China to face heavy blow from US new trade ban, with global IC players to suffer also
The latest tough and expanded US restrictions on shipments to China of advanced chips manufacturing equipment, supercomputer chips and high-end AI and HPC chips will not only drastically...
Tuesday 11 October 2022
China greenlights first mutual fund targeting Korean and Chinese chipmakers as latest US curbs hit stock markets
As the US heightened restrictions toward China's semiconductor industry on October 7, China's securities regulator has greenlighted China's first mutual fund that targets Chinese...