The US government has started to expand the ban on semiconductor equipment exports to China to include equipment under 14nm processing nodes and memory manufacturing tools in August,...

On August 2-3, the US speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan for 16 hours. It was a visit of seismic proportions along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Speaker...

With the US tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking gear, such a development will have a negative impact on Samsung Electronics and other major Korea-based chipmakers,...

The Chips and Science Act 2022 signed by US president Joe Biden on August 9 is seen as an important move to boost US competitiveness in the face of a "sputnik moment" with China....

The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule on August 12 to impose restrictions on four emerging and fundamental technologies,...

Micron Technology announced on August 9 it would invest US$40 billion to build leading-edge memory manufacturing in the US. The investment, according to Micron, will proceed in multiple...

The CEOs and senior leaders from across the semiconductor supply chain from tool and wafer manufacturers to key suppliers to end users of chips manufactured in the US participated...

Samsung Electronics officially began chip production using its latest 3nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process node on June 30, and went on to celebrate the first shipment of GAA-based chips...

The recently passed Chips and Science Act 2022, now awaiting US president Joe Biden's signature, specifically indicates that recipients of the subsidies are not allowed to "engage...

The Chips and Science Act, after months of debates, finally made it through the US Congress and now waits for president Joe Biden's signature. Now, the global semiconductor industry...

Taiwan's OSATs may not move to set up plants in the US though the US Congress has approved the Chips and Science Act 2022, and instead will carry out capacity expansions at their...

US legislators have passed the US$52 billion Chips Act. However, some commentators have claimed what the US is doing is perhaps too little, too late.

With the US Congress passing the Chips and Science Act of 2022 on July 28, awaiting the US president Joe Biden to sign it into law, the global chips industry is far from having a...

The Senate on July 27 passed CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, bipartisan legislation in a vote of 64-33. A total of US$52.7 billion will be spent as a 5-year incentive for developing...