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The Chinese government has unveiled a five-year plan outlining tighter regulation of much of its economy. It says new rules will be introduced covering areas including national security, technology and monopolies.
BBC News
Toshiba said on Thursday it swung back to profit in the first quarter, as sales of automotive chips and hard disk drives recover from a pandemic-driven slump in demand.
Reuters
SK Hynix plans to turn Intel's NAND memory and storage business into a stand-alone US company that will be owned by the South Korean chipmaker.
CRN
Google did not disclose who will manufacture the Tensor chip for Pixel, but sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia that Samsung will handle production using its advanced 5-nanometer process technology.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
The UK is considering blocking a takeover of Arm by Nvidia due to potential risks to national security, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Bloomberg
Infineon chief executive Reinhard Ploss on Tuesday supported the idea of Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) building a chip fabrication plant in Germany, expressing a clear preference for its technology over that of Intel.
Reuters
Samsung is increasing foundry prices to support more investment in 5nm EUV process technology.
eeNews Europe
Chinese automobile-chip maker stocks tumbled after the government launched a probe into possible price manipulation, putting a brake on share surges buoyed by a global semiconductor shortage that's approaching the 12-month mark.
Bloomberg
The photo removed showcases some new information about next-generation Thunderbolt technology.
Anandtech
TSMC is finalizing a decision to put its first chip plant in Japan into operation as early as 2023, Nikkei has learned.
Nikkei Asia
Texas Instruments gave a revenue forecast for the current period that disappointed some investors, raising concerns that a jump in chip demand caused by the pandemic will be short-lived. The stock fell in extended trading.
Bloomberg
Tsinghua Unigroup has been forced into restructuring under China's bankruptcy law, kicking off a process that could pave the way for the introduction of strategic investors like Alibaba.
Caixin
Globalfoundries is sticking with its plan for an initial public offering next year, according to company CEO Tom Caulfield. Reports that Globalfoundries is the subject of a takeover bid by Intel are speculation, he said.
Bloomberg
Any talks don't appear to include Globalfoundries executives, as a spokeswoman for the company said it isn't in discussions with Intel.
Wall Street Journal
Both Conservative and Labour MPs have raised national security concerns because Nexperia is a Chinese-backed firm.
BBC News
Alibaba Group and Chinese state-backed firms are weighing bids for a stake in Unisplendour, a cloud computing infrastructure firm, that could fetch as much as $7.7 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
Reuters
Strains in the semiconductor supply chain have worsened in some areas as trends such as remote working combine with an industrial recovery from last year's pandemic slump to drive chip demand, the head of Germany's Infineon said.
Reuters
Intel has said investment in its planned new European $20bn semiconductor factory could be spread across several EU member states, as it lobbies to win the bloc's financial and political support for the project.
The Financial Times
Taiwan's Foxconn and TSMC said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of Germany's BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, putting the total cost of the highly politicised deal at around $350 million.
Reuters
The UK's largest chip maker based in Newport has been bought by Nexperia, which is wholly-owned by Chinese tech firm Wingtech for 瞿65m.
BusinessLive
NXP Semiconductors has announced a major industry milestone for 5G energy efficiency with the integration of gallium nitride (GaN) technology to its multi-chip module platform. The new 5G multi-chip modules will sample in the third quarter, with production starting later this year.
Company release
Huawei's chip design arm has struck a deal aimed at building up its domestic supply chain, a local partner said on Tuesday, in a first public move against a US clampdown aimed at cutting its access to vital technology.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
Qualcomm's new CEO, Cristiano Amon, says the company will have no problem producing laptop chips to compete directly with Apple's M1 - mainly because Qualcomm now employs some of the key minds behind Apple's highly publicized breakthrough.
Ars Technica
The UK's largest chip producer, Newport Wafer Fab, is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia for around US$87 million.
Channel News Australia
Japan's Kioxia Holdings, the world's second largest maker of flash memory chips and formerly known as Toshiba Memory, plans an initial public offering as early as September, weekly financial magazine Diamond reported on Thursday.
ETTelecom
Broadcom has come out in support of Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm after other firms raised concerns about the deal.
CNBC
Bitmain, China's biggest maker of cryptocurrency mining machines, said it had suspended sales of its products in the spot market to help ease selling pressure following Beijing's ban on bitcoin mining.
Reuters
A global shortage of semiconductors is continuing to put the brakes on Japan's car-manufacturing industry.
NHK World
China has expanded its clampdown on cryptocurrencies, telling banks and payments platforms to stop supporting digital currency transactions.
BBC News
Taiwan will allow Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Taiwan's Foxconn, and TSMC to negotiate on the government's behalf for COVID-19 vaccines, a spokesman said on Friday, but warned he couldn't guarantee success.
Reuters
SiFive, a startup that designs semiconductors, has received takeover interest from investor Intel, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg
Hyundai Motor Group is in talks with South Korean chip companies to help it reduce reliance on foreign supplies amid a global shortage that has halted assembly lines at automakers around the world, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Reuters
Magnachip Semiconductor said on Friday that it has received a takeover bid from Cornucopia Investment Partners, topping a rival offer, which values the South Korea-based display and power chip maker at $1.66 billion.
Reuters
South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.
The Register
Tokyo and Taipei would be smart to work more closely on technology development.
Bloomberg
Globalfoundries is seeking a court ruling dismissing IBM's claim that the chip maker violated a manufacturing agreement with the former owner of its fabs.
EE Times
Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien, in an interview with Reuters late on Monday, said that he could not guarantee total safety for the city's tech firms, but that the government had rolled out rapid testing stations.
Reuters
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he is still confident regulators will green-light its $40 billion acquisition of SoftBank Group's Arm, despite growing skepticism about the deal's prospects.
Bloomberg
US President Joe Biden has issued a new executive order that is set to hit 59 firms including communications giant Huawei.
BBC News
Renesas Electronics on Tuesday said restoring full production capacity at a fire-damaged chip plant in Japan would take longer than expected, predicting a return to normal by mid-June rather than the previously estimated end of May.
Reuters
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