China’s drive for chip manufacturing equipment self-sufficiency advanced so rapidly in 2025 that even the country’s planners ...

The 28-nanometer process has become the most popular node among mature processes. It boasts the highest utilization rates and ...

In 1988, Japanese firms controlled 51% of worldwide chip sales, dominating memory production and manufacturing equipment. Fast forward to 2019, and that share had steadily declined to 10%, a stunning ...

TSMC Arizona fab posted a net profit of NT$4.7 billion in the first half of 2025. In contrast, JASM reported a NT$6.2 billion ...

But all this cutting-edge tech comes at a price. Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple's foldable iPhone will be priced somewhere ...

AI is driving demand and higher prices for DRAM and NAND into 2026.  Products using non-volatile memories to replace NOR and ...

China has quietly mandated that at least 50% of equipment used for new semiconductor capacity be domestically sourced.

UMC has put in a better 2025 than probably expected at the start of the year, but 2026 could turn out different for multiple reasons.

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. On December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has launched a review that could result in the first shipments to China of Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chips, five ...

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...

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