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TSMC’s third-quarter profit handily beats forecasts on AI boom

Asia’s most valuable publicly listed company saw profit jump 54 per cent last quarter.

17 Oct 2024 - 2:27PM

China cybersecurity group seeks review of Intel products for possible breaches

17 Oct 2024 - 3:12PM

Qualcomm’s bid to buy Intel hinges on US election, China scrutiny

16 Oct 2024 - 11:45AM

China claims breakthrough that could clear chip-design hurdle

A Wuhan-based lab has announced a ‘milestone’ that could help China overcome restraints imposed by traditional chip-design technology.

6 Oct 2024 - 10:00AM

A state-funded lab in China has announced a breakthrough in chip-design technology. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese start-up Numemory claims memory chip breakthrough amid US sanctions

The Wuhan-based firm recently introduced to the domestic market its 64-gigabyte NM101, a type of storage-class memory chip.

2 Oct 2024 - 9:00PMvideocam

Intel rebuffs Arm after British firm asked to buy US chip maker’s product unit

In the high-level inquiry, Arm did not express interest in Intel’s manufacturing operations.

27 Sep 2024 - 2:52PM

Intel secures Amazon as AI chip client, outlines turnaround plans

CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined steps that Intel would take to revive itself, after it reported disastrous second-quarter earnings.

25 Sep 2024 - 3:37PM

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivers a speech at the Computex forum in Taiwan in June. Photo: Reuters

Lenovo launches new AI-capable PCs powered by Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors

The latest AI device portfolio from Lenovo reflects efforts by the global PC industry to boost its recovery this year.

25 Sep 2024 - 3:52PM

Intel director Lip-Bu Tan exits board of struggling chip maker

The move follows Intel’s disastrous quarterly report earlier this month amid competition with rivals like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

23 Aug 2024 - 8:53PM

China’s Black Myth: Wukong mania lifts sales of Sony’s PS5 gaming console

The hit action role-playing game has prompted an increase in consumer spending on the mainland for video-gaming hardware.

22 Aug 2024 - 12:46PMvideocam

A screenshot from hit video game Black Myth: Wukong. Photo: Game Science

AMD to buy server maker in US$4.9 billion challenge to Nvidia

AMD has its sights set on Nvidia, the runaway leader in the market for data centre gear needed to support AI computing.

25 Sep 2024 - 4:02PM

Intel launches new chip to power Chinese carmakers’ in-vehicle AI initiatives

The company’s new Arc Graphics for Automotive discrete graphics processing unit is designed to power in-vehicle AI capabilities.

9 Aug 2024 - 9:30PM

Intel to cut 15% jobs, suspend dividend in turnaround push; shares plummet

Intel said it would cut more than 15 per cent of its workforce and suspend its dividend as the chip maker pursues a turnaround focused on its money-losing foundry business.

2 Aug 2024 - 12:20PM

Blinken announces US initiative to produce semiconductors in Latin America

The effort, intended to counter China, will expand chip manufacturing in Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, and possibly other countries in the future.

18 Jul 2024 - 6:21AM

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during an Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity meeting in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductor tools firm ASML’s order book expected to benefit from AI chip boom

ASML’s latest quarterly results are the first under new chief executive Christophe Fouquet , who took over the reins at Europe’s biggest technology firm in April.

16 Jul 2024 - 2:48PM

Dutch firm ASML dominates the global market for lithography systems, complex tools that use lasers to help create the tiny circuitry of semiconductors. Photo: Shutterstock

US revoked 8 licences for exporting goods to Huawei in 2024

The Biden administration is taking to new measures to thwart Huawei, which has started to rebound despite US sanctions.

3 Jul 2024 - 10:26AM

Huawei, semiconductor firm Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips

Huawei’s high-bandwidth memory initiative reflects the growing global market for these chips, which are indispensable components in the computing infrastructure used for artificial intelligence projects.

2 Jul 2024 - 1:57PM

Huawei wields growing influence in China’s server industry with AI chip success

Huawei Technologies, which was forced to divest its server subsidiary three years ago due to US tech sanctions, is regaining its influence in that sector on the back of its AI chips.

20 Jun 2024 - 3:01PM

A technician stands at the entrance to a Huawei 5G data server centre at the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital in Guangzhou, southern China. Photo: AP

Intel’s China arm invests in telecoms subsidiary of Apple supplier Luxshare

Intel’s latest investment on the mainland reflects its efforts in driving the buildout of sophisticated data centres used for the development of artificial intelligence systems.

18 Jun 2024 - 9:00PM

‘We have an edge’: Malaysia’s Anwar welcomes US chip firms, not sanctions

Let the US impose all the unilateral sanctions it wants in its tech war with China, ‘we are free to do what we like’, Malaysia’s PM says.

16 Jun 2024 - 9:00AMvideocam

China says flaw in RISC-V open-source architecture will affect chip programme

US lawmakers reportedly consider sanctions to restrict RISC-V access because of concerns of rapid technology transfer and Chinese adoption of architecture.

5 Jun 2024 - 10:39PMvideocam

A RISC-V flaw that Chinese scientists say may help their country bypass a US chip ban was confirmed by a team at Northwestern Polytechnical University, a major defence research institute in China. Photo: Shutterstock

Intel CEO hits back after Nvidia CEO says rival’s chips not for AI era

Pat Gelsinger took a direct shot at claims by Nvidia chief Jensen Huang that traditional processors like Intel’s are running out of steam in the age of AI.

5 Jun 2024 - 11:00AM

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger held an AI processor during a speech at the Computex conference in Taipei. Photo: Bloomberg

TSMC’s new chairman affirms forecast of AI-fuelled chip market recovery in 2024

TSMC chairman and chief executive C C Wei stuck with previous projections for 10 per cent growth in the global semiconductor market this year, excluding the vast memory chip sector.

4 Jun 2024 - 2:50PM

US slows AI chip exports to Middle East over concern on China access

Washington has delayed the issuing of export licences to Nvidia and AMD, partly over worries that Chinese companies could access AI chips through data centres in the Middle East.

31 May 2024 - 12:23PM

Nvidia’s rock-star CEO leads US chip bosses to Taiwan’s AI expo

Taiwan’s pre-eminence in semiconductors is at an all-time high, as the island welcomes Huang and the CEOs of AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and Arm Holdings to Computex 2024.

2 Jun 2024 - 3:52PM

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang threw a ceremonial first pitch during Taiwanese Heritage Day before a baseball game in Oakland, California last Saturday. The CEO is currently on a visit to Taiwan for the island’s Computex tech expo. Photo: AP Photo

European research labs to receive US$2.72 billion funding from EU’s Chips Act

The funding will help set up a pilot line in Europe that will develop and test future generations of advanced semiconductors.

21 May 2024 - 3:38PM

The research and development line being funded under the European Chips Act is intended to help develop future generations of advanced semiconductors. Image: Shutterstock

Letters | Malaysia is primed to revamp its once dominant semiconductor sector

Readers discuss Malaysia’s revival of its semiconductor industry, the exclusion of an elevated cycle track from Hong Kong’s Trunk Road T4 project, and the need to prevent work-to-rule-style bureaucracy .

13 May 2024 - 11:30AM

China’s use of RISC-V chip standard faces new headwinds from the US

China’s strengthened push to use RISC-V, an open-source chip-design architecture, is facing new risks amid scrutiny by the US and Google’s move to stop supporting it on Android.

9 May 2024 - 9:00AM

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Intel

Intel Corp is the world's biggest semiconductor chip-maker, based on revenue. It invented the x86 series of microprocessors, which are found most personal computers, but has found itself on the back foot with the move to mobile devices powered by operating systems created by Apple and Google.

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23 August, 2024