TSMC is reportedly slowing down its new fab project in Germany, due to growing doubts about whether the pure-play foundry will receive adequate EU subsidies in light of the region's...

At each quarterly earnings call, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), apart from informing eager anticipants the resulting financial turnouts of the previous quarter,...

TSMC's fab utilization in the first quarter of 2023 is being dragged down by a rapid slowdown in 7nm and 6nm chip orders, but the foundry has managed to keep its overall fab utilization...

Rapidus, a new Japanese wafer foundry with the goal of manufacturing 2nm chips, will set up a wafer fab at Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Its eight major investors, including...

Third-generation compound semiconductor market conditions are expected to change in the wake of Tesla announcing a 75% cut in the use of SiC components for its next-generation EV...

According to Knometa Research, Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix held 76% of the leading-edge capacity at the end of 2022, with the majority of it going toward...

The Japanese government will again subsidize the production and development of semiconductors in Japan with a supplementary government budget for fiscal year 2022 (April 2022 to March...

TSMC saw revenue generated from orders placed by its largest customer increase over 30% on year to NT$529.65 billion (US$17.3 billion) in 2022, accounting for roughly 23% of the foundry's...

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the dominant sources of carbon emissions. Vast amounts of power are required to manufacture the chips. Most discussion about the methods to limit...

The buzz created by ChatGPT has resulted in the demand for processors increasing correspondingly as well. Headlined by TSMC, the foundry sector is seeing performance growth in the...

Microsoft has reportedly approached TSMC and its ecosystem partners about using the foundry's CoWoS packaging for its own AI chip, according to industry sources.

The next-generation iPhone slated for launch later in 2023 will be powered by Apple's custom-designed 3nm SoC fabricated by TSMC, marking the market's long-awaited transition from...

A surge in high-end AI chip demand spurred by the growing popularity of ChatGPT is expected to drive demand for TSMC's CoWoS packaging, according to industry sources.

The global data center CPU market posted a 4.4% revenue decline on year in 2022, when AMD saw its market share expand to nearly 20% from 11.74% in 2021, according to Counterpoint...

Because of the water shortage in southern Taiwan, the state-owned Taiwan Water will enforce a 10% water consumption reduction in industrial zones and the science park in Tainan, southern...