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President Joe Biden has adopted a two-pronged approach to constrain China’s high-tech progress, curbing Beijing’s access to leading edge chips while bolstering semiconductor production in the US. He’s about to ratchet up the pressure further, shifting focus to an emerging arena of the contest for technological supremacy: the process of…

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

One reason for the sudden focus on that special sauce is its necessity to the kind of high-power semiconductors needed for artificial intelligence applications.

Semiconductor Manufacturing: Assembly, testing and packaging – usually considered together as “back-end” manufacturing - was always the least glamorous end of the semiconductor industry, with less innovation and lower added value than the “front end” business of making chips with features measured in the billionths of a meter.

In a huge boon for European Union efforts to build a cutting-edge microchip supply chain, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced plans on Tuesday for a €10 billion (US$11 billion) plant in Germany. The facility, to be built in Dresden in the country's east, will begin producing chips for the automotive sector by the end of 2027, the company said. The project marks the first foray onto European turf for TSMC, the world's leading maker of advanced chips. The firm...

Commentary “Decoupling” is the new buzzword these days when it comes to sanctioning communist China for its bad ...

Officials from EU member states say they will continue discussing price limits on gas. Leaders also talked relations with China and agreed to aid Ukraine further.

At their two-day summit, EU leaders are keen to find a joint solution to tackle the energy crisis and provide more support to Ukraine. The bloc's policy toward China is also on the agenda.

Commentary It is a source of constant puzzlement and even growing anger that the United States–both the federal ...

Ahead of the trip, China tried to discourage the French senators from going to Taiwan.