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US legislators have passed the Chips Act in a bid to revive IC manufacturing in the country. Responses have been mixed from the semiconductor industry.
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Friday 2 December 2022
Ferrotec restructuring supply chains outside of China
Ferrotec, a Tokyo-based chip component supplier, has recently confirmed that it's starting to restructure its supply chain outside of China in response to chip export restrictions...
Monday 21 November 2022
Taiwan's 'Chips Act' sheds light on the real challenge faced by small and medium IC deisgn houses
The new semiconductor subsidies package recently unveiled by the Taiwanese government, nicknamed Taiwan's Chips Act, has triggered debates within Taiwan's industry as a result of...
Tuesday 8 November 2022
US Department of Defense uses CHIPS Act funding to overcome technological 'valley of death'
With the passing of the CHIPS and Science Act, the US Department of Defense has kick-started its 'Microelectronics Commons', according to a press release dated November 4 from the...
Friday 4 November 2022
US seeks to pressure allies' chip gear makers to join export control
Bloomberg quoted sources from people attending a meeting of US semiconductor equipment manufacturer representatives with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said that...
Thursday 20 October 2022
Chip supply becomes ever more critical as US defense industry wakes up to new geopolitical challenge
WIth the passages of the Chips and Science Act, momentum is gaining traction in the United States to re-shore semiconductor manufacturing, as leading industry players like Intel and...
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Samsung's prospects in the US unclear despite committing US$192 billion
After the US announcement of the Chips and Science Act (CHIPS Act) to subsidize the reshoring of semiconductor manufacturing, the two major US-based logic IC and memory chip giants,...
Monday 26 September 2022
European Chips Act has wrong priorities, according to leading chipmakers in Europe
The European Chips Act proposed by the European Commission in February 2022 has yet to be adopted, but criticisms toward the act from within Europe's semiconductor industry have never...
Tuesday 20 September 2022
Incomplete factory engineering supply chain could slow new fab construction in Europe, US
Incomplete factory engineering industry supply chains, as well as insufficient manpower, could slow the construction of new wafer fabs in Europe and the US, according to industry...
Wednesday 7 September 2022
Raimondo vows to ensure Chips Act money is used to build chips 'only for America'
The US secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo outlined how the Chips Act funding will be used in a White House briefing on September 6, giving new information about how the subsidies...
Friday 2 September 2022
Backend houses see limited impact from tightened US chip export rules to China
Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing houses expect new restrictions imposed by the US to cut China off from high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips will have a limited impact...
Friday 2 September 2022
Micron announces US$15 billion in new fab investment in Idaho following CHIPS Act
Micron Technology has announced plans to invest approximately US$15 billion through the end of the decade to construct a new fab for leading-edge memory manufacturing in Boise, Idaho...
Friday 26 August 2022
US Chips Act, Inflation Reduction Act boosting FDI interests from Taiwan
The White House has published a statement detailing the executive order signed by US president Joe Biden to implement the semiconductor funding in the bipartisan Chips and Science...
Thursday 25 August 2022
More ban on semiconductor equipment to China accelerating tech decoupling
The US government has started to expand the ban on semiconductor equipment exports to China to include equipment under 14nm processing nodes and memory manufacturing tools in August,...
Monday 22 August 2022
China-Taiwan relations: Is alarmism justified?
On August 2-3, the US speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan for 16 hours. It was a visit of seismic proportions along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Speaker...
Friday 19 August 2022
Samsung to be hit by tougher US-imposed China chip ban
With the US tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking gear, such a development will have a negative impact on Samsung Electronics and other major Korea-based chipmakers,...