… The report also added that Chinese foundries, alongside Huawei-linked firms, are ramping production of advanced chips — roughly in the 7 nm to 5 nm class — to meet AI demand. However, some production still depends on foreign wafers. …
SoftBank has announced that it will begin manufacturing battery cells and energy storage systems at its facility in Sakai, Osaka, targeting gigawatt-hour-scale production by the fiscal year ending March 2028. …
… The deal was signed during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Netherlands, with Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten also present, and covers lithography tools, talent development, and supply chain support for a fab backed by $11 billion in total investment. …
… A single compromised package can rapidly propagate into thousands of downstream applications, enterprise environments, and production systems. …
Major tech companies have begun offering to directly invest in SK hynix's new chip production lines and bankroll purchases of advanced manufacturing equipment, Reuters has reported, in what sources described as an unprecedented escalation of efforts to secure memory supply during a global shortage . …
… One big factor is tightening supply alongside the cyclical recovery: TSMC has been reallocating 40-90nm production capacity toward CoWoS advanced packaging and silicon interposer fabrication for AI accelerators, reducing the available mature-node wafer supply from the world's largest foundry. …
… Semiconductors It seems that TSMC cannot supply all the chips that Apple needs, so it's looking for a US-based alternative to increase production. …
… According to Dutch publication Eindhovens Dagblad via DutchNews , employees have been airing their grievances on the company’s internal comms platform, with several threatening to skip his appearance altogether because of his involvement in U.S. politics and what staff described as "Nazi sympathies… …
… AMEC also claims SMIC has purchased at least 800 of its tools, a figure Chang cited on the same broadcast, and that its etch technology is used in TSMC's supply chain at nodes from 65nm down to 5nm and 3nm. TSMC hasn’t publicly confirmed the scope of AMEC's role in its production lines, however. …