Elon Musk believes the nation that controls advanced chipmaking capacity will win the AI race.

MediaTek could be producing the new processors as soon as 2026, said the news outlet, citing sources familiar with the matter. MediaTek also has a "strong" relationship with TSMC.

The largest chip development project ever funded by the European Union, the Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe (DARE) project, has kicked off with EUR240 million ($260 million) in funding in its first phase. This funding will be shared between 38 companies, research institutes and universities across Europe.

TSMC will keep making most of the world's advanced chips at home for years to come.

The automotive industry is certainly experiencing a disruptive time, both positively and negatively. Following strong growth in 2023, S&P Global Mobility reported recently that light vehicle production fell by 1.6% in 2024. Contributing factors of this decline included post-pandemic high levels of inventory, global economic headwinds, reduced government incentives for EV purchases and complex supply chain challenges.

Days after the overnight success of Chinese chatbot DeepSeek wiped a trillion dollars off the value of US tech stocks, software CEOs are telling investors that the artificial intelligence revolution is still on track.

TSMC is set to begin production of chips for Bitcoin chip mining company Bitdeer in Arizona this quarter, according to sources.

China has used its industrial development playbook in the past to target and capture markets for solar panels, mobile devices, EVs and consumer electronics.

Quobly, a cutting-edge quantum computing startup, has announced a transformative collaboration with STMicroelectronics to produce quantum processor units (QPUs) at scale.

SemiKong, a new LLM trained by Aitomatic and its partners in the "AI Alliance", is the world's first large language model specifically crafted to serve the semiconductor industry's needs. SemiKong seeks to become part of the workflows of semiconductor design companies and act as a digital expert in the field, contributing to getting new chips out the door significantly faster.

It's been a wild year in tech thanks to the intersection between humans and artificial intelligence. 2024 brought a parade of AI oddities, mishaps, and wacky moments that inspired odd behavior from both machines and man. From AI-generated rat genitals to search engines telling people to eat rocks, this year proved that AI has been having a weird impact on the world.

Recently, Google and China have independently announced advancements in quantum computing. Google's Willow chip demonstrates "below-threshold" error correction, achieving a benchmark calculation in minutes that would take supercomputers billions of years. China's Zuchongzhi 3.0 processor, with 105 qubits, exhibits comparable performance and plans to implement similar error correction techniques.

NXP Semiconductors has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aviva Links, a provider of Automotive SerDes Alliance (ASA) compliant in-vehicle connectivity solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at $242.5 million.

This year the research and development organization imec celebrated 40 years since it was created by 70 scientists from a university in Belgium, to being a key player in facilitating innovation in the semiconductor value chain working with hundreds of universities and researchers and bridging the goal of going from lab to fab.

Intel has shortlisted a number of buyout firms for the next round of bidding for its Altera unit, according to people familiar with the matter, as the beleaguered chipmaker makes headway on a process started by its now ousted CEO.

South Korea's conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol has declared martial law, accusing the left-wing bloc that controls the national assembly of North Korean sympathies and plotting rebellion.

China has banned exports to the US of items related to the minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have potential military applications, a day after Washington's latest crackdown on China's chip sector.

GlobalFoundries, Tower Semiconductor, and possibly some companies in China are poised for a wave of silicon photonics demand driven by AI and other applications like quantum computing.

The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person.

Intel will be replaced by Nvidia on the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average index (.DJI) after a 25-year run, underscoring the shift in the chipmaking market and marking another setback for the struggling semiconductor firm.

An investigation of Huawei Technologies' latest AI offering has unearthed an advanced processor made by Nvidia manufacturing partner TSMC, suggesting that China is still struggling to reliably make its own advanced chips in sufficient quantities.

Arm Holdings is canceling a license that allowed longtime partner Qualcomm to use Arm intellectual property to design chips, escalating a legal dispute over vital smartphone technology.

The first outing in the United States of the successful embedded world trade show and conference that has been running successfully in Nuremberg, Germany, for a couple of decades attracted some 3,500 visitors to the Austin Convention Center in Texas this week.

One of the key concerns for the European electronics industry is the need for more skilled engineers.

A number of prominent executives have left Apple in recent years, and some of the others have also followed the process of first narrowing the role to something focused on a single concern or product, followed by actual retirement.

With markets keen for details on China's efforts to revive economic growth and end its housing slump, here are five key takeaways from today's briefing by Chinese Minister of Finance Lan Fo'an and his colleagues. Bloomberg Terminal readers can click here for a full transcript.

President William Lai has pledged to uphold Taiwan's self-governing status in his most high-profile public address since taking office earlier this year.

Indonesia has asked Alphabet's Google and Apple to block Chinese fast fashion e-commerce firm Temu in their application stores in the country so it cannot be downloaded, a minister said on Friday.

Two chip-making giants have discussed building huge factory complexes in the United Arab Emirates that could transform the industry in the coming years and become a cornerstone for artificial-intelligence investments in the Middle East.

Qualcomm has in recent days approached Intel to explore a potential acquisition of the troubled chipmaker, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday, in what could be a transformational deal in the sector but faces many hurdles.

Intel has officially qualified for as much as $3.5 billion in federal grants to make semiconductors for the Pentagon, according to people familiar with the matter, after the chipmaker reached a binding agreement with US officials.

Chipmaker Broadcom forecast fourth-quarter revenue slightly below Wall Street expectations on Thursday, hurt by sluggish spending in its broadband segment. Despite a sharp rise in orders for its artificial intelligence chips, shares fell nearly 5% in extended trading.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and key executives are expected to present a plan later this month to the company's board of directors to slice off unnecessary businesses and revamp capital spending, according to a source familiar with the matter, as they try to revive the once-dominant chipmaker's fortunes.

British IP provider Imagination Technologies has raised investment in the form of a $100 million convertible term loan from Fortress Investment Group. Imagination will use the funds to support the development of its technologies for graphics, compute and AI at the edge, as well as fund its ambitious growth objectives.

General Motors said Monday it is laying off more than 1,000 salaried employees at its software and service units worldwide.

SoftBank has blamed Intel for the collapse of the talks, claiming Intel was incapable of meeting its demands for volume and speed, the report said, adding that SoftBank is now focusing on discussions with TSMC.

Dell Technologies is cutting some sales jobs and adding others, as it reorganizes its business for the AI era, to become "leaner" and focused on growth.

Infineon has become another chipmaker to shed a chunk of the workforce to cut costs after reporting shrinking sales.

With the transaction now closed, Altium is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas. Altium CEO Aram Mirkazemi has assumed the role of SVP and head of Renesas' Software & Digitalization. He concurrently serves as CEO of Altium.