The US has unveiled tight restrictions on chipmakers' capacity expansions in China, increasing the risks for companies that already have sizable operations in the Asian country.

US-China relations hit a new low in February as Washington added six Chinese companies to its Entity List in connection with the balloon incident. To complement the export controls...

The US' escalation of the chip war with China has prompted more companies to shift their orders to Taiwan-based pure-play foundries. However, contract prices provided by TSMC and...

TSMC is expected to see 5nm and 4nm chip sales generate an additional NT$100 billion in 2023, despite a roughly flat revenue growth this year, according to industry sources.

The Biden administration announced guardrails for the CHIPS Act to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and restrict foreign entities of concern from acquiring advanced technologies...

At the ongoing GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled its breakthrough in computational lithography. The new Nvidia cuLitho software library introduces accelerated computing...

IC design houses continue to seek price reductions from wafer foundries and are hesitant to accept any price increases, according to industry sources.

TSMC has seen a ramp-up in orders from Nvidia for the GPU vendor's A100 and H100 chips, as well as lower-spec A800 series explicitly designed for the Chinese market, according to...

The global chip shortage has resulted in countries elevating semiconductor manufacturing to a "national security issue." Not only are the Chinese and Korean governments continuing...

BGA (ball grid array) packaging demand for high-pixel and large-size automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) chips remains in high gear, but lower-end car-use CIS products processed with...

As Qualcomm is set to place wafer starts with TSMC for new handset APs, RF chips, networking chips, and even PC CPUs to be launched in the second half of 2023, its backend supply...

The world's most advanced and delicately fine-tuned semiconductors wouldn't be possible without the aid of giant steel storage tanks built by a little-known Tokyo company founded...

It has been widely discussed that TSMC's overseas expansion may lead to soaring production costs. However, Dr. Nicky Lu, the chairman of Etron Technology, believes that it is necessary...

Qualcomm has stepped up its procurement from Taiwan, where the chip company is expanding its local operations by adding a new factory building.

It is predicable that the ongoing US-China chip war will follow a difficult and long course, and under fierce attack and defense between the world's two largest economies, there could...