US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, claimed that Taiwan had taken 100% of the chip business from the US without giving anything in return. He also reiterated his belief that Taiwan should pay for defense and protection from the United States. However, a closer look reveals several misconceptions in Trump's statements regarding the US-China chip war

China's aggressive automotive exports caught the world's attention, hitting a record high in the first half of 2024 but starting to slow down after tariffs imposed by Europe and the United States. However, few have noticed that China's semiconductor exports growth and dollar amount during the first half of the year both exceeded that of automotive exports

With the current boom of generative AI, British AI chip unicorn Graphcore should've enjoyed the dividends from AI. Instead, it found itself struggling

The European Union has announced additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on electric vehicles from China

Largan Precision, a leading smartphone lens manufacturer, is facing challenges due to the increasing influence of AI in the smartphone market and its impact on talent recruitment in the semiconductor industry

Innolux Corporation, a leading display panel manufacturer, is undergoing a significant transformation as it ventures into the semiconductor field with its Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging (FOPLP) technology. The company is closing its generation 5.5 TFT-LCD plant and has garnered attention due to its collaboration with TSMC on FOPLP development and potential interest from Micron Technology in acquiring the aforementioned plant

Samsung and Intel are trying to overtake TSMC, but TSMC chairman C. C. Wei's answer to that challenge is: "No way!"

RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture, has garnered global attention due to its royalty-free nature and adaptability for custom hardware development

Nvidia dominates the market for AI chips for training and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) and its pricing power is reflected in gross margins as high as 78%, compared to competitors Intel and AMD's 41% and 47% gross margins, respectively, in the latest quarter. So how many high-end GPU chips did Nvidia sell

Before we discuss the possible impact of HBM4 standard interface on the DRAM industry, we need to review the current status of the DRAM industry

According to a recent Reuters report, Apple's "Apple Intelligence" technology has been rumored to use Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerators for early-stage training, illustrating the close cooperation between Apple and Google in the AI sector. Apple may even be using Google Cloud services

At WWDC 2024, Apple announced "Apple Intelligence," adding its own branding to the terminology of artificial intelligence (AI)

It is important to know how individual memory companies choose to develop their High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology for future competitions

In March, China Resources announced the stunning news of acquiring SMIC's shares of JCET Group, a packaging and testing firm invested by China's National IC Industry Investment Fund (the "Big Fund"). The deal is a delicately calculated move rendering China Resources control over JCET and Sandisk

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's keynote at COMPUTEX 2024, specifically mentioned the collaboration with TSMC, which allowed Intel to realize the mass production of Lunar Lake in advancing AI PCs. This move raises questions about whether it is an attempt to repair the relationship with TSMC