Tag: chip

TSMC Planning Advanced Chip Production in Arizona, Says Company’s Founder

TAIPEI—Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is planning to produce chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology at its new factory in the U.S. state of Arizona but the plans are not completely finalized yet, the company’s founder Morris Chang said on Monday. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd. (TSMC), a major Apple Inc. supplier and the world’s largest contract chipmaker,…


Toyota Cuts Output Target Amid Chip Crunch as Profit Tumbles 25 Percent

TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp on Tuesday posted a worse-than-expected 25 percent drop in quarterly profit and cut its annual output target, as the Japanese firm battles surging material costs and a persistent semiconductor shortage. The world’s biggest automaker by sales also warned that it remained difficult to predict the future after posting its fourth consecutive quarterly…


Yellen Says Chips, Research Investments Will Boost US Economic Capacity

HERNDON, Va.—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that domestic investments in semiconductors and research would help reverse a longstanding innovation deficit and increase the productive capacity of the U.S. economy. Yellen, speaking at a business incubator in the Washington area’s Dulles technology corridor, said that the U.S. lead in technology innovation has increasingly come…


Toyota Expects to Cut Full-Year Output Target Due to Chip Shortage

TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp. said on Friday its annual vehicle production was likely to come in below its initial target, as a persistent global semiconductor shortage hampers efforts by the world’s biggest car maker by sales to boost output. The Japanese company has been under scrutiny over whether it can stick to its annual production target…


Intel and Google Cloud Launch New Chip to Improve Data Center Performance

Intel Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers more secure and efficient. The E2000 chip, code named Mount Evans, takes over the work of packaging data for networking from the expensive central processing units (CPU) that do the main computing. It also…


Taiwan Says It Will Comply With Latest US-Issued Chip Export Rules Aimed at China

On Oct. 7, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced sweeping new export controls that will cut China off from certain semiconductor chips that are made with U.S. technologies, regardless of whether the chips were manufactured in the United States. In response to the new move, Taiwan’s Economy Ministry on Oct. 8 said that Taiwanese firms…


China Tech Shares Sink as US Export Curbs Raise Chip Sector Hurdles

SHANGHAI, Oct 10—Shares in Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Tencent as well as in chipmakers slumped on Monday, as investors were spooked by new U.S. export control measures aimed at slowing Beijing’s technological and military advances. The Biden administration published a sweeping set of export controls on Friday, including a measure to cut China…


US–China Strategic Rivalry Escalates Over Chips, Foreign Businesses Caution Investing in China

The United States has ramped up efforts to deny China access to advanced semiconductors and chipmaking technologies, thus, escalating the U.S.–China strategic competition. Following the passage of the U.S. CHIPS Act, on Sept. 6, the U.S. Department of Commerce released its “Strategy for the CHIPS for America Fund” (pdf), a $50 billion investment to catalyze…


China’s No.3 Offical Visits South Korea Amid Intensified US-China Strategic Rivalry

South Korea is a technological powerhouse and a key part of the global supply chain. It’s now also caught in the intensified strategic rivalry between the United States and China. Both superpowers are wanting the East Asian nation to pick a side. Following many visits from top U.S. officials, Beijing last week sent Li Zhanshu,…


Arm Launches New Chip Design for Cloud and Data Center

OAKLAND, Calif.—Arm Ltd., the British chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group Corp., on Sept. 14 launched its next generation of data center chip technology called Neoverse V2 to meet the explosive growth of data from 5G and internet-connected gadgets. Arm creates underlying intellectual property that other firms such as Qualcomm or Apple then license…