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Toshibas board of directors has approved a JPY2 trillion (US$15.3 billion) offer from a consortium led by Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) to buy the company, according to local media reports in Japan.

The new rules bar chip makers that receive US subsidies for semiconductor production from using the funds for projects in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

With Sony attempting to secure additional sensor chip orders for Apples iPhones, Taiwan-based epitaxial wafer manufacturers and other III-V IC suppliers are optimistic about demand from the Japan-based IDM, according to industry sources.

A multitude of semiconductor applications has blossomed in recent years. The rise and fall of Huaweis HiSilicon Semiconductor after a decade of rapid development are the most noteworthy case study against the backdrop of the China-US trade war. While it is regarded as the epitome of Chinas self-sufficiency in semiconductors, it also fell victim to multiple bans and restrictions from the US.

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the dominant sources of carbon emissions. Vast amounts of power are required to manufacture the chips. Most discussion about the methods to limit global warming focuses on reducing the emission of greenhouse gas (GHG). How do leading chip makers boost their sustainability and minimize the climate impact at the same time?

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo unveiled tight new proposed restrictions on semiconductor manufacturers doing business in China.

German federal minister of education and research Bettina Stark-Watzinger is paying a brief visit to Taiwan to strengthen Germanys ties in chip manufacturing technology and to expand talent exchanges

Greater energy savings and miniaturization in power supply applications by combining GaN devices and control ICs...

Strategic integration of high-speed, high-voltage gallium nitride (GaN) and low-voltage silicon system-controller chips enables easy-to-use,...

NEW YORK and LONDON, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Representing a significant milestone for its strategic partnership with Microsoft, KX today announces the general availability of kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure, an enterprise-ready, real-time analytics engine with the world's fastest time-series database (kdb) at its core, running natively on Azure. It represents the industry-first Data Timehouse, a new class of data and AI management platform designed for temporal data generat...