TAIPEI—Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen warned the semiconductor industry faces new and “volatile” challenges, but said her government will work with the sector to overcome them. Taiwan is home to the world’s largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, and is a major producer of semiconductors used in everything from washing machines and cellphones to data centres and fighter…
Taiwan President Warns of ‘Volatile’ Challenges Facing Chip Industry
Vedanta, Foxconn to Invest $19.5 Billion in India’s Gujarat for Chip, Display Project
NEW DELHI—Vedanta Ltd. and Taiwan’s Foxconn will invest $19.5 billion under pacts signed on Tuesday to set up semiconductor and display production plants in Gujarat, the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Reuters was first to report on Monday that the joint venture obtained subsidies including on capital expenditure and electricity from Gujarat…
Micron Breaks Ground on $15 Billion Chip Plant, Says More to Come Soon
Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. memory chip company, on Monday broke ground for a $15 billion factory in Boise, Idaho, and its chief executive told Reuters an announcement of another new U.S. plant will be coming soon. “We are in final stages of another high volume manufacturing site that is going to be announced…
Corruption Is Destroying Communist China’s Dream of Dominating Chip Industry
News Analysis It appears China’s national chipmaking campaign is coming to an end, with huge investments drained and key figures in the semiconductor industry arrested recently. According to Chinese financial media Caixin, on Aug. 2, Zhao Weiguo, former chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup, and Diao Shijing, the company’s former co-president, were both investigated last month. Li…
US Expands China Chip Ban, Weighs Blacklisting of Top Chinese Chipmaker
August 6, 2022
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The United States has expanded its ban of exports to China of equipment that can make semiconductors up to 14 nanometers in size, and is considering plans to restrict NAND flash memory chip exports as well as blacklist a major Chinese memory chip maker, as China’s ruling communist party continues its aggressive posturing toward other…
GM Vehicle Sales Tumble 15 Percent as Chip Crunch, Supply Snags Drag
General Motors Co. reported a 15 percent drop in second-quarter auto sales on Friday, as a global chip shortage and supply chain disruptions hit production and left nearly 100,000 vehicles waiting for more parts. The U.S. auto industry is struggling to keep up with pent-up consumer demand for new cars as it struggles to ramp…
Computer Chip Giant ASML Places Big Bets on a Tiny Future
VELDHOVEN, Netherlands—ASML, a semiconductor industry and stock market giant, has to think smaller. Or maybe bigger. It is building machines the size of double-decker buses, weighing over 200 tonnes, in its quest to produce beams of focused light that create the microscopic circuitry on computer chips used in everything from phones and laptops to cars…
Google’s Pixel Watch Is Reportedly Using Outdated Chip
Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., said recently it is coming out with the Pixel Watch this fall but now details have emerged that the wearable is underpinned by a four-year-old processor. What Happened The Google Pixel Watch is using the same Exynos 9110 chip that powered the Galaxy Watch’s 2018 iteration, also the Korean…
Chip Startups Using Light Instead of Wires Gaining Speed and Investments
Computers using light rather than electric currents for processing, only years ago seen as research projects, are gaining traction and startups that have solved the engineering challenge of using photons in chips are getting big funding. In the latest example, Ayar Labs, a startup developing this technology called silicon photonics, said on Tuesday it had…
Chip Shortage Leads Major Firm to Scavenge Semiconductors from Old Washing Machines
April 21, 2022
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The global semiconductor shortage has led a major industrial conglomerate to resort to buying up old washing machines and removing chips from inside for use in their own products, according to the head of a supplier of key technologies to chipmakers. Peter Wennink, the CEO of ASML, a company that dominates the global market for…
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