Japan plans to look into legislation to support the commercial production of advanced semiconductors, a draft of this year's long-term economic policy plan seen by Reuters shows.

MediaTek is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip that will run Microsoft's Windows operating system, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The share-price gap between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and China's biggest chipmaker is near its widest in almost two decades, highlighting the difficulty Beijing faces in building up its domestic chip industry.

A splintering of global supply chains, driven by both political and business considerations, has hundreds of manufacturers and logistics providers debating where to go next. They'd be well advised to take their cues from two Taiwanese companies who've led the charge.

Russia's current standing in the international community - from economic pariah to massive supplier of fossil fuels - seems perfectly suited to the predicament faced by traditional Chinese automakers. In fact, sanctions against Moscow are likely the single largest driver of vehicle exports from its neighbor since the invasion of Ukraine began more than two years ago.

Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to TSMC production in the face of US sanctions, four people with knowledge of the matter said.

Samsung Electronics' latest high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips have yet to pass Nvidia's, opens new tab tests for use in the US firm's AI processors due to heat and power consumption problems, three people briefed on the issues said.

SK hynix's foundry subsidiary, SK keyfoundry, is set to produce power semiconductors for Tesla electric vehicles starting the second half of this year.

Esperanto Technologies, a provider of high-performance, energy-efficient AI and HPC solutions built on the RISC-V instruction set, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Rapidus. The partnership's initial goal is to help future semiconductor designers produce more energy-efficient solutions.

India is known for its semiconductor design expertise, which has been successfully nurtured since the 1980s. However, manufacturing capability and capacity has been limited despite having built a fab as far back as 1983 in the form of Semiconductor Complex Limited (SCL), established by M.J. Zarabi, considered one of the pioneers of the current chip industry in India.

China has launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of a widely used plastic from the US, EU, Taiwan and Japan.

SoftBank Group subsidiary Arm will foray into the development of artificial intelligence chips, seeking to launch the first products next year.

Huawei's latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, a teardown analysis showed, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency.