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Taiwan to drop new law restricting TSMC from allowing foreign fabs to produce leading edge nodes after company's $100 billion investment in US facilities
By Hope Corrigan published
News The law's designed to keep other countries one node behind Taiwan at all times.

New Intel CEO is looking 'for partnership with the industry leader to build purpose-built silicon' for AI, but is he talking about making chips with Nvidia or for OpenAI?
By Jeremy Laird published
News Lip-Bu Tan also says he hooked up with TSMC to talk about a possible collab'.

Chipmaker TSMC's new A14 process will apparently offer a '15% speed improvement' but our GPUs won't be made on it for a while
By Jacob Fox published
News I wonder what the GPU market will be like in 2028...

US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge 'as much as 30%' more for its Arizona chips pans out
By Jacob Fox published
News So tariffs on foreign chips and hiked prices on domestic ones?

TSMC might have to fork over $1 billion to the US for allegedly breaking export rules after one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor
By Jacob Fox published
News $1 billion here, $1 billion there, who's counting?

This estimate that iPhones would cost $3,500 if made in the US has me terrified of tariffs and the concept of a mid-range gaming laptop costing $5,000 and high-end models hitting nearly $15,000
By Jeremy Laird published
News Analyst predicts it would take years to move even a small fraction of iPhone production to the USA.

Trump gave global chipmaking leader TSMC an offer it could not refuse: 'All I did is say if you don't build your plant here you're gonna pay a big tax... 25, maybe 50, maybe 75, maybe 100%'
By Jacob Fox published
News More stick than carrot.

So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
By Jeremy Laird published
News That and the lasers firing at tiny flying droplets of tin...

The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
By Jeremy Laird published
News The involvement of AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom remains unclear...

Semiconductors are exempt from Trump's massive 32% tariff on Taiwan though PC gamers will still feel the heat
By Jacob Ridley published
News President Trump says TSMC is "one of the great companies of the world" as he praises the chipmaker for investing in the US. But other companies are not so lucky.
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