Rapidus hunts for engineers to help Japan regain faded chip glory
By Sam Nussey, Miho Uranaka and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Government-backed Japanese chip foundry venture Rapidus is hunting high and low – including among industry veterans and overseas –…
Tencent says has Nvidia AI chip stockpile but seeking to buy domestic
By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings on Wednesday said it has a large stockpile of AI chips from U.S. maker Nvidia, but that broadened…
Japan chipmaker Rapidus to open U.S. office by year-end
By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese chip foundry venture Rapidus plans to open an office on the West Coast of the United States by the end of this year,…
Taiwan’s land squeeze pits advanced chips against ancestral temples
By Sarah Wu HSINCHU/LONGTAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan’s semiconductor capital, 40 residents braved lashing winds in early October…
Japan’s JSR slashes profit forecast on chip recovery weakness
By Sam Nussey and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese chip materials maker JSR Corp on Monday slashed its operating profit forecast for the current financial year by 62%, citing…
Apple revamps Mac lineup and pricing with new family of chips
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple on Monday introduced new MacBook Pro and iMac computers and three new chips to power them, with the company saying it had…
Samsung Q3 profit set to slump 80% as chip losses persist
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics’ third-quarter profit is expected to drop 80% from a year earlier as the effects of an ongoing global chip glut drive losses…
Vodafone to create open RAN chip sets with Intel
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone underlined its commitment to Open RAN networks on Monday by confirming it would create purpose-built chipset architecture for the nascent technology with Intel.…
EU examines Nvidia-dominated AI chip market’s alleged abuses
By Chavi Mehta (Reuters) – The European Union (EU) is examining alleged anticompetitive practices in chips used for artificial intelligence, a market that Nvidia dominates, Bloomberg News reported on Friday,…
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries seeks funding under CHIPS Act
By Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries said on Monday it has submitted applications for funding under the U.S. CHIPS act to expand capacity and modernize its local manufacturing…