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Trillion-dollar chip giant: Five things to know about TSMC
Taiwanese semiconductor titan TSMC briefly joined a rarefied club of companies valued at more than $1 trillion on Monday. It works closely with AI leader Nvidia, which became the world's most valuable traded company in June with a market capitalisation of around $3.3 trillion.
Western rare earths supply chain springs into gear
Global supply chains are diversifying away from China for rare earths used in products like electric vehicles and wind turbines. Companies are building facilities to reduce the West's dependence on Chinese imports.
Global chips battle intensifies with $81 billion subsidy surge
The concern over China’s rapid advances in key electronics turned into a full-scale panic during the pandemic because chip shortages emphasised the significance of these tiny devices for economic security.
'It is desolate': China's glut of unused car factories
The facility, a former assembly plant and engine factory, had been a joint venture of a Chinese company and Hyundai, the South Korean giant. The complex opened in 2017 with robots and other equipment to make gasoline-powered cars. Hyundai sold the campus late last year for a fraction of the $1.1 billion it took to build and equip it. Unmown grass at the site has grown knee high.
Now, India is shooting for home-made bullet trains
India is developing a home-built bullet train exceeding 250 kmph, using Vande Bharat platform technology by ICF, Chennai. The project integrates Indian tech and domestic manufacturing, funded by JICA with completed pier work and land acquisition for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project.
Taiwan earthquake a threat to global tech supply chain? TSMC halts some units, evacuates plants
A major earthquake in Taiwan prompted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) to suspend chipmaking operations and evacuate plants. The incident raised concerns about disruptions to the global tech supply chain, highlighting the vulnerability of the industry to natural disasters and the need for diversification efforts.
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Japanese authorities raid a factory making health supplements linked to 5 deaths
About a dozen people wearing dark suits solemnly walked into the Osaka plant of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. in the raid shown widely on Japanese TV news, including public broadcaster NHK. The company says little is known about the exact cause of the sicknesses, which include kidney failure. An investigation into the products is underway in cooperation with government health authorities.
China's exports are surging. Get ready for the global backlash
The world's appetite for its goods is welcomed by China, which is enduring a severe downturn in what had been the economy's biggest driver of growth: building and outfitting apartments.
Japan pledges a further $4.9 billion to help TSMC expand Japan production
Japan offers subsidies to TSMC for a second chip fabrication plant. TSMC's first factory in Kumamoto opens. It plans to produce advanced chips for AI and autonomous driving, ensuring a stable semiconductor supply in Japan. TSMC expands in the U.S. and Germany. Japan also invests in Rapidus.
Chip giant TSMC shifts away from hotspot Taiwan with Japan plant
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which counts Apple and Nvidia as clients, produces half the world's chips, used in everything from smartphones to satellites and increasingly to power AI technology.
Taiwan chip firms flock to Japan as China decoupling accelerates
The influx comes amid shifting alliances and priorities in the global chip industry as the United States pushes to limit China's progress in cutting-edge semiconductors and strengthen partnerships between its allies. Fabless chipmaker Alchip Technologies, which specialises in customised chips known as application-specific integrated chips (ASICs), is illustrative of the China decoupling trend.
TSMC to build second Japan chip factory, raising investment to $20 billion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co announced plans in 2021 to build a $7 billion chip plant in Kumamoto in southern Japan's Kyushu. TSMC said last month the first Japanese factory would open in February with volume production in the fourth quarter, and that the company was also exploring building a second factory in the country.
TSMC to launch chipmaking plant in Japan, but US plant to face delays
In recent years, the company has had to navigate geopolitical tussles between the United States and China as the two face off over technology import restrictions, trade and Taiwan -- the primary manufacturing base for TSMC.
TSMC gets pulled into Taiwan election fray at VP debate
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chipmaker and island's most important company, is occasionally mentioned on the campaign trail, though issues that affect the sector such as the stability of the power grid and water shortages are much more frequently discussed.
To be the next China, India needs faster trains
Starting with the inaugural Beijing-Tianjin line in 2008, China’s high-speed rail is now a 26,000-mile network and supports a top speed of 220 miles per hour. Meanwhile, Vande Bharat Express, India’s newest and fastest passenger locomotive, is unable to accelerate to its full potential — most parts of the existing tracks won’t even allow 80 miles an hour.
Taiwan's TSMC prizes Japan's chips skills amid Arizona factory problems
TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, is frustrated in Arizona, the sources said, where it has struggled to recruit workers for the gruelling chipmaking trade and faced pushback from unions on efforts to bring in workers from Taiwan.
Taiwan pitches deeper political engagement with Europe after TSMC Germany investment
For Taiwan, which is under increasing pressure from Beijing to accept China's sovereignty claims over the island, the investment in a new factory is a show of goodwill towards Europe.
Taiwan's semiconductor maker TSMC is becoming the global chipmaker it didn’t aspire to be
Taiwan's semiconductor maker TSMC is about to have factories in five countries across three continents with a new facility beginning operations in 2027 near Dresden, Germany.
Taiwan chipmaker TSMC approves $3.8 billion Germany factory plan
The company, in a brief statement after a board meeting, said it had approved the investment of up to 3.499 billion euros in a TSMC-majority-owned subsidiary, European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, in Germany to provide foundry services.
TSMC reassures commitment to Taiwan amid global expansion
Speaking at a ceremony to open a massive global research and development center in Taiwan's chip hub of Hsinchu, CEO C.C. Wei said he would like to take the opportunity to tell the people of Taiwan that the firm remained "rooted" on the island.
Globalisation in technology is taking backseat to national security: TSMC founder Morris Chang
Morris Chang, who founded the world's largest contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), said globalisation has been redefined as allowing businesses to move across borders only under the condition that such exchanges do not harm national security, technological supremacy and economic leadership
Japan ramps up efforts to strengthen its chip industry
Here is a look at investments in Japan announced by chipmakers and measures the government is taking to revive its semiconductor industry.
Chipmakers' plans for factories in Europe, US and Asia
India, Taiwan and South Korea have offered incentives such as tax breaks to boost domestic chip production. Here are some of the chipmakers' plans for factories in Europe, North America and Asia
Japan's prime minister Fumio Kishida to meet with top chip firms as market share dips to 10%
The meeting would occur at a time when the United States is increasingly urging allies to work together to counter China's chips and advanced technology development.
Chip clients evaluating supply chain resilience: Taiwan chipmaker UMC
Asked on an earnings call about US and European chip designers shifting orders away from Chinese factories, UMC co-president Jason Wang said their customers were starting to "evaluate their supply chain resilience".
The little-known company behind TSMC’s most advanced semiconductors
Valqua is part of a loose network of Japanese manufacturers that dominate a niche but indispensable segment of the global chip supply chain.
Taiwan chipmaker TSMC says quarterly profit up 78%
Revenue for the final quarter of 2022 rose 42.8% over a year earlier to 625.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($20.6 billion), the company announced. Profit was 295.9 billion New Taiwan dollars ($9.7 billion).
Sony considers $5.8 billion smartphone sensor factory in Japan-media
The plant would be located in Kumamoto prefecture and Sony plans to bring it online in 2025 at the earliest, the report said. The news was first reported by the Nikkei business daily, although it didn't mention a specific investment amount. The Nikkei said the Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate would carefully consider the timing of the construction and the size of the investment given concerns about a slowdown in the global economy.
Japan once led the world in microchips. Now, it's racing to catch up
Coronavirus outbreaks had shut down chip plants, and an unanticipated surge in demand for electronics from people riding out the pandemic at home had constrained supplies. Nissan alone predicted a cut in output of half a million vehicles.
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