SYRACUSE, N.Y.—President Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York on Thursday to promote his administration’s efforts to bring chip manufacturing back to America. He announced that Micron, an American memory chipmaker, would receive $6.14 billion in federal grants through the CHIPS and Science Act, which he signed into law in 2022. Besides the direct funding, […]
Former President Donald Trump is in line to receive around $1.3 billion worth in additional Truth Social stock. This would push the value of his ownership to the $4 billion range. Tesla slashed prices by up to $2,000 on its vehicles such as the Model 3 and Model Y in several markets including the United […]
The U.S. government announced on Monday that it plans to give South Korean electronics company Samsung a $6.4 billion subsidy to build new computer chip facilities in Texas. The Department of Commerce said a preliminary agreement was reached with Samsung, in which the tech giant will invest $40 billion of its own money to upgrade […]
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to enable […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed awarding up to $8.5 billion in grants and $11 billion in loans to tech giant Intel to expand its semiconductor production and output. The proposed funding, which stems from the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, marks the government’s largest investment ever in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, according to […]
Beijing is trying to match Taiwan in chip technology through “cheating” and “stealing,” but the effort is failing, the island’s new envoy to Washington claimed on Wednesday, as he backed U.S. tech export curbs against China.
Elon Musk said on Monday that the first human patient in his Neuralink startup’s clinical trial is recovering well after having a chip implanted in their brain on Sunday. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Mr. Musk added in a post on X (formerly Twitter), referring to the activity of neurons that send signals […]
A high-level summit is unfolding in San Francisco, featuring a rare encounter between President Joe Biden and a leader he has openly labeled a “dictator.” What would a successful meeting look like for the United States and China? Despite the talks, a report from Congress says ties between Washington and Beijing are getting worse. We […]
New rules to block even more chip exports to China. The United States is working to further restrict Beijing’s access to advanced semiconductors and chip-making equipment, which it could use to help develop AI. The latest crackdown aims to close loopholes in last year’s curbs.
Chances are you’ve heard of the “one-chip challenge”—the consumption of a single tortilla chip dusted with the two hottest peppers known to man, and refraining from eating or drinking afterward for as long as possible. Hershey subsidiary and tortilla chip maker Paqui has now pulled the product from store shelves following the death of a […]
Chinese tech giant Huawei released a new phone recently. What’s special about it, however, is that it’s powered by an advanced chip—despite U.S. sanctions blocking exports of hi-tech chips to China. The United States is now investigating the Chinese breakthrough—how did the communist regime achieve this technological advance? To delve deeper into this issue, NTD […]
HONG KONG—A $5.4 billion acquisition of Israeli chip manufacturer by Intel has been called off after China failed to sign off on the deal amid rising tensions with the United States. It was a mutual decision between Intel and Tower Semiconductor, the companies said Wednesday. Intel said that the deal was terminated “due to the […]
On the tech front, China is feeling the impacts of U.S. microchip sanctions. The country saw its chip imports drop by 20 percent in the first five months of this year, according to official customs data. Those penalties mean trade from Japan and South Korea has also been shrinking, amid the tech war between the […]
Chinese smartphone company OPPO launched its chip branch, ZEKU, in 2019 when independent semiconductor chip research and development (R&D) was a national campaign of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Four years later, China’s chip bubble finally burst when OPPO abruptly terminated ZEKU. It is believed that more Chinese semiconductor developers will soon follow suit. Experts analyzed […]
The commerce department proposed new rules to limit the number of chips ending up in the hands of adversarial countries like China. That’s following the CHIPS act passed and put aside $52 Billion to advance America’s chip capacity, from research and development to manufacturing.
Kansas officials are planning to hand over more than $300 million in taxpayer-funded incentives for a semiconductor company to build a new factory in the state’s largest city. But there’s a catch: The project won’t go forward without funds promised by the federal government for rebuilding the nation’s chip-making capacity. According to Gov. Laura Kelly […]
China’s access to semiconductors could soon take yet another hit, as Japan and the Netherlands reached an agreement with the United States in restricting exports of some advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to the communist country, according to a report by Bloomberg on Jan. 27.
TAIPEI—Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is planning to produce chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology at its new factory in the U.S. state of Arizona but the plans are not completely finalized yet, the company’s founder Morris Chang said on Monday. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd. (TSMC), a major Apple Inc. supplier and the world’s largest contract chipmaker, […]
WASHINGTON—Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Monday criticized U.S. regulatory approval of a bid by chip intellectual property company Alphawave to purchase U.S.-based OpenFive, over alleged national security risks posed by the buyer’s ties to China’s Wise Road Capital. On Friday, the Toronto and London-based Alphawave, which licenses its technology to chipmakers, said it had received […]
Nvidia’s planned acquisition of the UK-based chip designer Arm from SoftBank has collapsed due to “significant regulatory challenges,” the companies said in a joint release Tuesday. The cash-and-stock deal was originally announced in 2020 and had a value at the time of $40 billion. It planned to bring together Nvidia’s AI computing platform with Arm’s vast […]
