Last month it was revealed that TSMC was unable to obtain land to build a future advanced silicon wafer processing plant on a server in Taiwan due to opposition from local residents. Experts explain that by 2024-2025, TSMC will be forced to decide...
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This week, Bloomberg became aware of the involvement of at least four Taiwanese companies in building and modernizing businesses in China linked to the U.S.-sanctioned company Huawei Technologies. Taiwanese authorities promised an immediate...
The Taiwanese company TSMC is preparing three sites in different parts of the island for the production of 2nm components, but current rumors indicate a possible slowdown in the implementation of such projects. At least one of the companies aiming...
Given the statements about TSMC’s willingness to build a factory for contract manufacturing of semiconductor components in East Germany, the local authorities immediately took care of training the staff for this. For this purpose, an agreement...
As a member of the RE100 initiative, the Taiwanese company TSMC has made certain commitments to switch to the use of energy from renewable sources and achieve carbon neutrality. Recently the company announced about its willingness to accelerate this...
At a recent quarterly conference, TSMC management had to admit that the company cannot fully meet the demand for chip packaging and test services at the moment and the situation may not normalize until the end of next year, but for this the company...
AMD CEO Lisa Su traveled Asia this week and when she spoke in the Taiwan capital earlier in the week, she ended up in the Japanese capital, where she admitted in an interview with local media that the need to diversify risks is forcing the company...
Many participants in the semiconductor market have already summed up the last month, some are preparing to publish quarterly reports, and this allows analysts to get an idea of the current situation in the industry. According to the Nikkei Asian...
Chinese companies have often openly poached people with experience in Taiwan and South Korea to build national semiconductor industries, but scandals involving criminal charges in such cases have been rare. The new precedent with the arrest of the...
Statistics from Taiwan officials for May show that the island’s semiconductor exports to the United States have risen for 26 straight months. First, it bucks the trend of declining demand for chips due to their overproduction and the economic...
In a series of high-profile announcements by NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang over the past few days, mention has been made of management’s interest in leveraging Intel’s custom chip manufacturing services using state-of-the-art...
US-made TSMC chips will be 20-30% more expensive than Taiwanese ones – Samsung can benefit from this
Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s leading semiconductor contract manufacturer, intends to sell chips made at the company’s factories in the United States at prices up to 30% higher than those made in Taiwan. Business Korea reports. It is...
Taiwan’s TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) said a new chip factory to be built in Japan will cost about $8 billion, while local authorities should help the company by covering about half of the necessary costs. Image source:...
Ministry of Finance of Taiwan reportedthat in March, the volume of exports of chip-making equipment in the United States rose 42.6% year-on-year to a record $71.3 million, while exports of such equipment to China increased by 33, 7 million have...
After the deal with Lordstown Motors, the Taiwanese company Foxconn began gradually expanding the contract production of electric vehicles in Ohio and recently even expanded its product range to include electric tractors, but this does not mean that...
According to a report, Taiwanese contract chipmaker UMC saw its net income increase 56.32% last year to a record $2.9 billion. DigiTimes. In the first quarter of this year, the line utilization should drop from 90 to 70% and the profit margin should...
If earlier the outflow of customers from Chinese custom chip manufacturing companies was mainly due to targeted sanctions against the same SMIC, now it has become systemic. Taiwanese competitors are ready to produce chips for former customers of...
In February 2023, Taiwan’s chip exports to Mainland China and Hong Kong declined year-on-year for the fourth consecutive month. According to Bloomberg, the reasons are the growing tensions between Washington and Beijing and the fact that...
The pandemic has exposed the semiconductor industry’s vulnerabilities, autochips and other cheap, mass-produced products are in short supply, and US authorities have begun to look for ways to improve supply chain reliability. The long...
The technology company Teltonika intends to build a semiconductor factory in Lithuania. It is expected to be created with the support of Taiwanese colleagues and use Taiwanese technologies, and will start work as early as 2027. Lithuanian...
