TSMC announces massive investments into chip production
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has announced an investment of 100 billion dollars (85 billion euros). The company plans to significantly scale up its production capacity over the next three years.
This is a considerable scaling up from the 28 billion dollars (24 billion euros) that TSMC ...
Intel to build new chip factories in Europe
Intel has announced its plans for the future. The company is betting big on the production of 7nm chips and wants to make its chip factories available to other companies too. For this, the company wants to build more chip factories, starting with two factories in the American state of Arizona. Inte...
EU is striving for a larger share in semiconductor production
The European Union has set out a set of digital goals that it wants to achieve in the next decade. In it, the body says it wants to be responsible for a significant share of semiconductor production by 2030.
There are already quite a few semiconductors produced in Europe, but according to Bloomb...
USA tries to prevent all export of ASML machines to China
The United States is trying to prevent ASML from selling its chip machines to Chinese companies. In addition to the sale of the new EUV machines, the country says the sale of the older DUV machines must also be halted.
In a report, the United States proposes a series of measures to ensure its le...
Samsung: chip shortages for cars may hit smartphones as well
Chip manufacturer Samsung Electronics is warning that the chip shortages hitting the car market could soon impact the supply of parts for smartphones as well.
The world's largest chip manufacturers are now working at full capacity in an attempt to meet the huge demand for semiconductors that is ...
ASML will be training hundreds of EUV Engineers every year
ASML has opened a new Global EUV Training Center in Taiwan to train 360 EUV Engineers annually to work in the EUV sector.
The new 1.625-square-meter EUV training center in the Tainan Science Park will offer training courses for EUV (extreme ultraviolet) Engineers, including operating EUV machine...
Samsung starts building new production line for 5 nm chips
Samsung has started building a new chip production line in South Korea that will make advanced 5-nanometer chips for 5G networks, AI and other applications. Production is expected to begin in the second half of 2021.
The new production line, located in a facility south of Seoul in the city of Py...
‘TSMC no longer accepts Huawei orders after new trade ban’
According to sources Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company stopped taking new orders from Huawei. This decision comes after the U.S. government introduced strict measures to restrict the Chinese company's access to American chips.
Several sources have reported this to the Nikkei Asian Revie...
Intel invests 1 billion U.S. dollars in expansion chip plants
Currently, there is a worldwide shortage of processors for computers. Most likely for that reason, Intel today announced that it is investing 1 billion U.S. dollars in its chip factories, in an attempt to increase production.
The investment will be spread over three plants: in Ireland, Israel and th...