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Covid Walkouts At Foxconn Plant Affect iPhone Production

Workers at Foxconn's biggest iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, China, return to home cities amist rising Covid-19 cases

1 year ago

US Expects Deal With Allies To Implement China Chip Restrictions

Biden administration indicates a deal is near with key allies to also apply export restrictions on chip-making tools to China

2 years ago

Tensions With China Pose ‘Serious’ Challenges For Chip Sector, Says TSMC

TSMC chairman admits tensions between Taiwan and the US with China has posed “serious challenges” for chip industry

2 years ago

Apple iPad Pro With M2 Chip Expected Shortly

New iPad models are expected to launch “in a matter of days”, with the iPad Pro expected to boast the…

2 years ago

Apple Halts Plans To Use Chinese Memory Chips

Apple suspends plans to use memory chips from China's YMTC in iPhones after firm hit with sweeping US trade sanctions

2 years ago

Xi Calls For China To ‘Win Battle’ On Core Tech

China president Xi Jinping calls for country to 'win the battle' on core tech after US imposes sweeping trade restrictions

2 years ago

Intel To Axe Thousands Of Jobs Amid PC Decline – Report

Chip giant is to begin a major headcount reduction this month, as Intel contends with falling PC sales, inflation, and…

2 years ago

Intel, Google Co-Designed Data Centre E2000 Chip

Google Cloud deploys its new C3 machine series, featuring the Intel infrastructure processing unit E2000, co-designed by Google and Intel

2 years ago

PC Shipments Declined 15 Percent In Q3, Warns IDC

Worrying decline in PC shipments continues, as IDC reports 15 percent year on year decline, with Apple only manufacturer to…

2 years ago

US Targets China Semiconductor Industry With Raft Of Measures

US announces broad range of measures aimed at barring China from developing advanced chip manufacturing capabilities and modernising military

2 years ago

ARM Cuts 40 Percent Of UK Staff Recruited Under Softbank – Report

Global reorganisation at ARM Holdings sees job cuts hit United Kingdom harder than other locations around the world

2 years ago

Micron To Spend Up To $100 Billion To Build New York Chip Fab

White House welcomes news that new chip “megafab” costing up to $100bn will be constructed in New York by Micron…

2 years ago

Government Again Delays Decision On Newport Wafer Fab

Another delay to the government making a decision whether to allow a Chinese entity to acquire UK's largest chip factory

2 years ago

US To Clarify AI Chip Export Restrictions ‘Soon’

White House official says US planning to clarify China export restrictions on AI chips from Nvidia, others 'relatively soon'

2 years ago

US Hosts Initial ‘Chip 4’ Meeting In Taiwan

US hosts initial 'Chips 4' working group meeting in Taiwan with participation of South Korea and Japan as it seeks…

2 years ago

US Senators Ramp Up Pressure On Apple Over China Deal

US senators call for intelligence evaluation of potential Apple deal to use memory chips from China's YMTC in latest iPhone…

2 years ago

ARM Launches New Chip Design For Data Centre, Cloud

British chip designer ARM Holdings reveals its next generation data centre chip design, dubbed Neoverse V2

2 years ago

Google Partners US Government To Develop Open Source Chips

US Commerce Department and Google team up to develop open source chips that can be utilised by startups and researchers

2 years ago

US ‘To Implement’ China Chip Export Restrictions

US Commerce Department reportedly planning to publish new export rules aimed at restricting Chinese chip manufacturing next month

2 years ago

Micron Breaks Ground For $15bn US Memory Chip Plant

Micron breaks ground for $15bn memory chip plant as part of $40bn US investment fuelled by $52bn Chips and Science…

2 years ago

US Lawmakers Warn Apple Over Chinese Memory Chips

US lawmakers warn Apple it faces potentially serious consequences if it uses NAND memory chips made by controversial Chinese firm…

2 years ago

EU Says It Will Not Appeal Qualcomm Antitrust Decision

European Commission confirms it is not planning to appeal General Court decision on its 997m euro fine against Qualcomm, in…

2 years ago

US Bans Tech Firms From Building Chinese Factories

US Chips and Science Act (Chips). Biden administration tells those receiving federal funding they will not be allowed to invest…

2 years ago

UK Again Delays Chinese Purchase Of Newport Wafer Fab

More delays to the national security probe into the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab by a Chinese owned entity

2 years ago

Arm Sues Qualcomm And Nuvia Unit For Licence Infringement

British chip designer Arm Holdings accuses Qualcomm and Nuvia of trademark infringement and breaching certain licence agreements

2 years ago

US Instructs AMD, Nvidia To Halt AI Shipments To China

Two leading American chipmakers, Nvidia and AMD, have been ordered to stop selling some of their AI-related technology to China

2 years ago

China’s SMIC ‘Has Achieved’ 7nm Chip Breakthrough

Semiconductor analysts say China's SMIC using advanced 7nm process in shipping semiconductors in spite of sanctions restriction most advanced tech

2 years ago

Dell, Ericsson To End All Business In Russia

More Russia withdraws, as Dell confirms it has ceased all Russian operations, and Ericsson says it will wind down operations…

2 years ago

Tech Investors Mull Newport Wafer Fab Rescue Bid – Report

Amid a national security review, British chip executives are reportedly preparing a rescue bid for Welsh chip firm Newport Wafer…

2 years ago

Samsung Germany Tells User To Smash SSD With Hammer

Data protection overkill? Customer support in Germany tells user to smash his faulty Solid State Drive (SSD) before returning it…

2 years ago