DuPont spin-off Qnity invests US$61.5M to expand advanced chip material production in Taiwan - US semiconductor and electronic materials company Qnity Electronics announced a US$61.5 million investment in Taiwan by acquiring the N9 plant in Zhunan, Miaoli, from Ennostar, aiming to accelerate the expansion of advanced semiconductor material R&D and manufacturing capacity. The new facility is expected...
Nvidia halts China-bound H200 production, shifts TSMC capacity to Vera Rubin - Nvidia has halted production of artificial intelligence (AI) chips intended for the Chinese market and redirected manufacturing capacity at TSMC to its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, as regulatory barriers in both the US and China continue to cloud prospects for sales to Chinese customers, the Financial...
Rapidus gets its first customer - Rapidus, Japan’s government-backed leading-edge chip startup , has got its first customer – Canon. Canon is going to order 2nm test chips designed by Synopsys to be fabbed at Rapidus’ Chitose site. Last month the company announced that it had raised $1.7 billion from 32 private-sector companies...
Broadcom CEO sees copper interconnects viable through 2028 - Broadcom reported strong results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, driven by robust demand for cloud application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and issued an upbeat outlook. During the earnings call, however, industry attention centered less on the company's financial performance and more on...