The Chinese currency - the yuan - is flirting with the 7 mark against the US dollar, a level it hasn't seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. The movements in the yuan are closely monitored, not least because the currency is a flashpoint in the US and China's trade war.

Israeli chip manufacturer TowerJazz on Monday reported lower quarterly net profit and forecast fourth quarter revenue below expectations, citing overall market weakness.

US official fears supply chain attack on US military systems.

More than 70 percent of U.S. firms operating in southern China are considering delaying further investment there and moving some or all of their manufacturing to other countries as the trade war bites into profits.

The companies will accelerate the adoption of EUV lithography for high-volume production, including the current latest available equipment for EUV (0.33 Numerical Aperture, NA). Moreover, they will explore the potential of the next-generation high-NA EUV lithography to enable printing of even smaller nanoscale devices advancing semiconductor scaling towards the post 3nm logic node.

Intel said its making progress on improving 10nm yields and reiterated its pledge to have 10nm chips shipping by the 2019 holiday season.

Wingtech will indirectly own 75.86 percent of Nexperia as a result of the deals.

Pichai said 48 employees have been terminated for sexual misconduct over the last two years.

Intel is denying a new report that claims the chipmaker is abandoning its 10 nanometer manufacturing process following years of delays.

Shares in AMS fell as much as 31.5 percent Tuesday, the steepest intraday decline since January 11, 2008.

Qualcomm has announced with Samsung Electronics that they are working together to develop 5G small cells - opening the door for massive 5G network speed, capacity, coverage and ultra-low latency.

Super Micro Computer says it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report.

Philips Lighting is seeing double-digit growth in India, which is among the top five markets in the world for the global company, and poised to rise to the third rank, Eric Rondolat, its global CEO said.

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Samsung Electronics has announced its acquisition of Zhilabs, known for its AI-based network and service analytics, to further enhance its 5G capabilities. The acquisition lays the foundation for Samsung to foster its 5G offerings of automation and network analytics to finely tune the customer experiences in the 5G era.

Semiconductors are key components for the IoT, connecting the real with the digital world now evolving to cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) functionality.

Huawei sued CNEX last year for the same reason

Amid struggles to deliver its 10nm technology, the technology and manufacturing group will be split into three parts.

The Mate 20 series is powered by the Kirin 980 SoC manufactured with the advanced 7nm process incorporating the Cortex-A76-based CPU and Mali-G76 GPU.

Apple will recruit TSMC to manufacture chips for its upcoming Apple Car starting in 2023 to 2025, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.

Murata Manufacturing expects shortages of tiny ceramic components to last for another two years, its CEO said, in what could be a bottleneck in the advancement of the global automotive market.

Arm is introducing something called the Arm Neoverse, a cloud-to-edge infrastructure to support a world with a trillion intelligent devices.

Semiconductor industry bellwether ASML Holding NV's better-than-expected third quarter results and bullish outlook gave sector stocks a boost on Wednesday after fears of slackening demand had dragged them down in recent months.

"This not only reflects the great importance Qualcomm attaches to the Chinese market, but also shows our strong support for China's further opening-up," Meng said.

Xilinx, Huawei and NGCodec have announced the development of China's first cloud-based high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) solution, which is enabled by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs and NGCodec's H.265 video encoder.

Shin-Etsu Chemical will implement about a JPY14 billion (US$124.8 million) facility investment aimed at the expansion of its photomask blanks business.

Izumo Murata Manufacturing will start constructing a new production building in October 2018 with completion scheduled for November 2019.

Synopsys has announced a collaboration with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of DesignWare Interface IP, Logic Libraries and Embedded Memories for the TSMC N7+ FinFET process.

The Ascend 910 will be available from the second quarter of 2019 and the 310 is already on shelves.

Samsung now expects bit growth of less than 20% for DRAM and a rise of 30% for NAND flash.

The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month.

Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.

Shares in Dialog surged more than 30pc on Thursday morning, as investors welcomed the clarity the deal provides over the company's future.

Huawei unveils two new artificial intelligence (AI) chips called the Ascend 910 and Ascend 310.

Cold-war style offensive by America is an ill-advised miscalculation that will cause pain 'all over the world', warn top executives of Chinese conglomerate.

The International Monetary Fund has warned a trade war between the US and China risks making the world a "poorer and more dangerous place" in its latest assessment of the global economy. The IMF has lowered its forecast for global growth this year and next.

Qualcomm will be investing $400 million (Rs 3,000 crore) in setting up its largest campus outside its San Diego headquarters in Hyderabad, IT minister KT Rama Rao's office said on Saturday.

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 US companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America's technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.

SK Hynix said it would invest 20 trillion won ($17.8 billion) in a new memory chip manufacturing plant opening on Thursday in South Korea.

WSJ cites "suppliers," admits most hardware specifics have not yet been locked down.