The US has reportedly been pressing Seoul, since the second-half of 2023, to implement export curbs targeting chip supplies to China

Washington is also pushing the Netherlands to stop ASML from maintaining and servicing equipment it sold to China before the Dutch chip export curbs came into effect

Another plant in Japan would expand TSMC’s capacity there to more than 100,000 12-inch wafers to supply tech firms and carmakers including Sony and Toyota

Tariffs on an innumerable number of transfers of chip design data across countries, would raise chipmaking costs and worsen chip shortages, a semiconductor consortium warned India

Chinese cloud firms have previously told Nvidia they don’t want its slower AI chips and that they would prefer using homegrown chips from companies such as Huawei

Experts say that SMIC’s South fab is the only factory with the capability to make the Mate 60's 7 nanometer chip

Local governments in Shanghai and Anhui will fund a variety of semiconductor-related projects this year — ranging from the development of DRAM chips to building facilities for chipmaking and its tools

ASML tools are used to make advanced semiconductors that can go into "high-value weapons systems and weapons of mass destruction,” a top Dutch official said

US-listed shares of the chip designer, seen as benefitting from investors' hunt for the "next Nvidia", have surged more than 95% in just the last seven trading sessions alone

"If you just assume that computers never get any faster, you might come to the conclusion we need 14 different planets and three different galaxies and you know four more Suns to fuel all this."

The largest supplier of equipment to computer chip makers said new competitors with 'substantial financial resources' and 'the ambition of self-sufficiency' were a business risk

The 5nm tech will be used to produce chips for Huawei's new smartphones, and, if successful, could also be used for its AI chips