TSMC will hold its first board meeting in the U.S. on February 11, 2025, where it plans to announce senior management updates. Notably, markets are watching whether the foundry giant will announce new U.S. investments, especially with Trump pushing for advanced chips to be made in the U.S. and hinti...

As the former Biden administration tightened chip export controls, targeting processors with 30 billion transistors at 16/14nm or smaller nodes, TSMC followed suit. Chinese media ijiwei reports that TSMC notified many Chinese IC firms it would halt shipments of 16/14nm and below products from Januar...

Following ChatGPT, DeepSeek’s emergence, the AI boom has been further fueled. Driven by AI, the demand for advanced process chips continues to surge. While 3nm chips have already entered mass production, multiple manufacturers are actively investing in 2nm fabs to meet future market needs, targeti...

In TSMC’s earnings call last month, the foundry giant revealed that 3nm already accounted for 26% of its total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2024. Now it is likely to get a major boost on the node, as an etnews report suggests that Apple began mass production of the M5 chip in January, leveragi...

Though Intel plans to lower its 2025 capex to USD 20 billion from USD 24 billion in 2024, the semiconductor giant has been gearing up to receive its new high-NA EUV machine soon. According to a report from Dutch media outlet tweakers, the first modules of ASML’s TwinScan EXE:5200 will be delivered...