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A $250 billion trade deal will see Taiwan bring more semiconductor production to the US (engadget.com)

2026-01-15 | get Semiconductors → | tags: agreement, billion, cnbc

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Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-15 | by Rebecca Szkutak | get Microchip → | tags: additional, billion, deal

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Chip stocks pop after TSMC's earnings beat boosts confidence in industrywide demand (cnbc.com)

2026-01-15 | by Ari Levy | get Smartphones → | tags: broadcom, earnings, nvidia

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Water Is the Supply Chain Risk No One Talks About — Until It's Too Late (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-12 | get Supply chain risk management → | tags: industrial, infrastructure, reuse

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Beijing tells companies to pause H200 purchases — China govt deliberating terms for letting local tech companies buy US chips while still growing homegrown semiconductors (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-07 | by Jowi Morales | get Semiconductors → | tags: beijing, chinese, chips

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China-Japan relations strain as probe is launched into this chemical used for semiconductors (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-07 | get Semiconductor → | tags: beijing, china, imported

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Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-07 | by Jackie Flynn Mogensen | get Semiconductors → | tags: commercial, earth, forge

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Memory chip giants spark global semiconductor rally as shortages stoke price hikes (cnbc.com)

2026-01-06 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Memory chips → | tags: chips, expected, memory

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Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request — FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-06 | by Mark Tyson | get Linux → | tags: apache, code, ffmpeg

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China’s top chip foundries move to consolidate as Beijing pushes semiconductor self-sufficiency — SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor deals pave the path to unified power (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Luke James | get Semiconductor → | tags: china, consolidation, hong

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Micron secures $318 million Taiwanese subsidy for HBM R&D as AI memory arms race intensifies — three-year project aims to develop leading-edge, high-performance memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-02 | by Luke James | get HBM → | tags: advanced, development, memory

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Baidu’s semiconductor unit Kunlunxin files for Hong Kong listing amid AI chip boom in China (cnbc.com)

2026-01-02 | by Dylan Butts | get Semiconductor → | tags: baidu, beijing, china

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UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space (slashdot.org)

2026-01-01 | get Space Heater → | tags: factory, semiconductor, semiconductors

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UK company shoots a 1,000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Jowi Morales | get Semiconductor → | tags: forge, manufacturing, reduce

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UK company shoots a 1000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Jowi Morales | get Semiconductor → | tags: forge, manufacturing, reduce

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The Top 8 Semiconductor Stories of 2025 (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-30 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Semiconductor → | tags: chip, chips, lithography

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US-China chip tensions cool as new semiconductor tariffs are delayed until 2027 (techspot.com)

2025-12-27 | get Microchip → | tags: accused, accused china, balancing

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Trump administration announces new tariffs on Chinese chips and electronic components — but fresh sanctions won't take effect until 2027, and rates remain unknown (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Semiconductors → | tags: china, components, production

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China convicts 27 people for smuggling 166 tons of critical chipmaking element antimony — heavily-restricted mineral used for semiconductor manufacturing exported without licenses, court decides (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Kunal Khullar | get Antimony → | tags: antimony, antimony ingots, china

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New Texas Instruments fab will pump out tens of millions of chips per day — first 300mm fab starts production after $60 billion investment (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jowi Morales | get Microprocessors → | tags: instruments, power, semiconductor

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Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-13 | get Semiconductor Physics → | tags: essential, essential semiconductor, physics

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Essential Semiconductor Physics,Mark Lundstrom Purdue University [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-13 | get Semiconductor Physics → | tags: essential, essential semiconductor, lundstrom

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China mulls $70 billion domestic chip fabrication injection, would be largest of any government semiconductor investment — Huawei and Cambricon among candidates in push to compete with Nvidia, other U.S. firms (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Jon Martindale | get Semiconductor → | tags: china, chip, domestic

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Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Luke James | get Semiconductor → | tags: billion, hardware, market

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Tata, Intel deepen India semiconductor push with pact on chip supply chain and AI PCs (cnbc.com)

2025-12-09 | by Dylan Butts | get Intel Chips → | tags: chip, electronics, india

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Pat Gelsinger wants to save Moore’s Law, with a little help from the Feds (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-07 | by Connie Loizos | get Moore's Law → | tags: gelsinger, industry, kelez

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RAM Is So Expensive, Samsung Won't Even Sell It To Samsung (slashdot.org)

2025-12-04 | get Memory → | tags: division, electronics, samsung

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How Intel clawed its way back to relevancy - and why it's suddenly winning again (zdnet.com)

2025-12-02 | by Sabrina Ortiz | get Intel Core → | tags: billion, intel, nvidia

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Trump Administration to Take Equity Stake in Former Intel CEO’s Chip Startup (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-02 | get NVIDIA → | tags: circuits, circuits semiconductors, develop

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China's hybrid-bonded AI accelerators could rival Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs — top semiconductor expert hints at 'fully controllable domestic solution' (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-27 | by Anton Shilov | get AI Accelerator → | tags: china, hardware, hypothetical