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SMIC founder and AMEC CEO urge Chinese fabs to test domestic chipmaking tools on active production lines — equipment makers post record revenue but falling margins

… China's semiconductor equipment vendors collectively posted record revenues in 2025, but profitability is under pressure from domestic price competition , and the hardest remaining bottleneck, lithography, has no credible near-term domestic solution. …

May 19, 2026 · Luke James
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Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash

… He also implied that the county stands to significantly benefit from the project. “Something that perhaps isn’t clear is that, if this location works out other locations are still in the running , SpaceX will still be paying an annual amount that increases tax revenue for Grimes County by ~25% and … …

Jun 4, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Intel's big $5 billion bet on Ireland aims to right the wrongs of the cancelled Magdeburg, Germany complex — Fab 34's proven pipeline and Intel 3 node should help the company meet insatiable HPC demand

… Intel Foundry revenue grew 16% to $5.4 billion in the same quarter, but external foundry revenue was just $174 million against a $2.4 billion operating loss, so the wafers that pay for Leixlip's tools are overwhelmingly Intel's own Xeon chips, rather than customer designs. …

Jul 15, 2026 · Luke James
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Google goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company banks big on TPUs

… TPU sales turn capex into inventory Google began recognizing revenue from TPU system sales in the quarter, with Ashkenazi telling analysts the systems were "delivered to customer data centers for the first time in Q2" and that "the vast majority of the revenues from these agreements will be realize… …

Jul 28, 2026 · Luke James