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Toilet maker Toto scores a royal flush as share price rises due to AI demand in unlikely chipmaking side-gig — Japanese company develops electrostatic chucks to hold silicon wafers in lucrative segment (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-23 | by Mark Tyson | related products | tags: analysts, chucks, expertise

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TSMC Says AI Demand Is 'Endless' After Record Q4 Earnings (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | related products | tags: believe, billion, earnings

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TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-16 | related products | tags: believe, chips, earnings

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CNBC Daily Open: AI trade reignited by TSMC earnings blowout (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | related products | tags: announced, cnbc, semiconductor

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CNBC Daily Open: TSMC earnings draw investors' eyes back to AI (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | related products | tags: european, markets, profit

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

2026-01-15 | related products | tags: agreement, billion, cnbc

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

2026-01-15 | by Rebecca Szkutak | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | tags: industrial, infrastructure, reuse

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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 | related products | tags: advanced, development, memory

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

2026-01-01 | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | tags: chip, chips, lithography

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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 | related products | tags: china, components, production

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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 | related products | tags: instruments, power, semiconductor

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

2025-12-13 | related products | tags: essential, essential semiconductor, physics

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

2025-12-13 | related products | tags: essential, essential semiconductor, lundstrom

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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 | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | 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 | related products | tags: circuits, circuits semiconductors, develop

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Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-21 | related products | tags: chip, industry, manufacturing

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Taiwan set to avoid 'punishing' 300% tariffs on semiconductor exports, says report — new trade deal could spur $400 billion investment commitment from island nation (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-21 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: billion, island, parks

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The new silicon valley (literally) (theverge.com)

2025-11-21 | by Justine Calma | related products | tags: arizona, industry, intel

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SoftBank sinks over 10% as Nvidia-fueled rout sweeps Asian chip shares (cnbc.com)

2025-11-21 | by Dylan Butts | related products | tags: chip, fell, nvidia

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Taiwan to up defense spending and develop Iron Dome-inspired missile protection — expert warns one well-placed Chinese missile could make it 'impossible to get a new iPhone for three years' (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-13 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: china, production, science

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Elon Musk says Tesla needs to build 'gigantic chip fab' to meet AI and robotics needs (cnbc.com)

2025-11-07 | by Dylan Butts | related products | tags: musk, robotics, semiconductor