chips

Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Director of the National Science Foundation Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan testify to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at 2:00 p.m. ET on Oct.4 on “CHIPS and Science Implementation and Oversight.”

The AI chip wars are on! Semiconductor chip company AMD has revealed its most advanced AI chip ever, called the MI300X. This is the strongest challenge yet to Nvidia’s AI chip dominance. NTD’s Colin Fredericson has the story.    

With foreign companies feeling the heat in China, NTD spoke to David Goldman, corporate director and columnist of the Asia Times, for his take on what’s happening to the chip and semiconductor industry—which runs modern life, from phones to laptops to fighter jets—and the two superpowers seem to be facing off over it.

Mass bankruptcies in China’s semiconductor industry jumped in 2022, sparked by U.S. sanctions and China’s economic downturn, which will make it difficult for China’s chip sector to recover, experts say. As many as 5,746 Chinese chip companies were deregistered in 2022, a 68 percent increase from 3,420 in the previous year, Chinese media Titanium Media App reported […]

U.S. senators scaled back planned curbs on the use of Chinese-made chips by the U.S. government and its contractors amid pushback from trade groups.

U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. has put on hold plans to use memory chips from China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) in its products, after Washington imposed tighter export controls against Chinese technology companies, the Nikkei reported on Monday. Apple had originally planned to start using state-funded YMTC’s NAND flash memory chips as early as […]

At a recent charity event held by J.P. Morgan Chase in San Francisco, activists attempted to “take over” by protesting the financing of the oil and gas industry. When doing so, they wore and used products only made possible by the industry, industry insiders note. Stop The Money Pipeline, a coalition of groups committed to […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further aggravated the global shortage of semiconductors, also known as microchips. Part of that disruption involves the manufacturing of a key ingredient needed to make the chips: neon gas. Before the invasion, Ukraine produced around 50 percent of the world’s semiconductor-grade neon gas, accounting for more than 90 percent of […]

The Biden administration announced this week that technology companies that receive funds from the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act will be barred from building advanced facilities in China for a period of 10 years. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the rule during a Sep. 6 press conference, framing the rule as an important […]

The U.S. government will hold trade talks with Taiwan in a sign of support for the self-ruled island that the Chinese regime claims as its own territory, prompting Beijing to warn Thursday that it will take action if necessary. The announcement of trade talks comes after Beijing fired missiles into the sea to intimidate Taiwan […]

PINGTUNG, Taiwan—Taiwan warned Tuesday that Chinese military drills aren’t just a rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island but also reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore it’s ready to defend itself. Angered by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, […]

President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act on Aug. 9, allocating a $280 billion funding package toward boosting domestic semiconductor manufacturing and various research endeavors. “The CHIPS and Science Act will boost American semiconductor research, development, and production, ensuring U.S. leadership in the technology that forms the foundation of everything from automobiles to […]

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) is a member of the China Task Force that was set up under Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. The team is tasked with countering China’s malign influence throughout the world. One of those issues comes in the way of technology, specifically computer chips. NTD asked the congressman about the recent CHIPS Act […]

U.S. microchip maker Intel is trying to keep its operations in China, as the Senate voted to move ahead with a semiconductor subsidy bill. It’s part of efforts to counter China’s weapons and technology development. Under the bill, companies have to follow certain rules in order to get benefits. One of them is to keep […]

The market for chips and similar electronics has been slowing down, but as a result, these components are becoming more available.

The world’s top computer chip maker gave a glimmer of hope on the global chip shortage—kind of. The shortage is already keeping some products off the shelf and pushing up the price of others. But TSMC says demand for certain types of chips is slowing down.

Food prices are expected to go even higher this year, for many kitchen staples and for eating out. A new report is shedding light on global demand for microchips. Is it up or down? And what does China have to do with it? Germany is preparing for an energy emergency in case Russia stops oil and […]