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Chinas tech giant Huawei and top semiconductor foundry SMIC apparently adopt different approaches against US chip curbs. The former has just announced its successful development of electronic design automation (EDA) tools for chips above 14nm process, while the latter has quietly removed 14nm process technology from its service list on its website. What messages are these two Chinese tech players sending through their recent actions? And what are their actual calculations?

The expected incentives for the last company making memory chips in the US come as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with top chip firms, including TSMC and Intel.

Japan’s government is already spending billions of dollars to encourage TSMC to add production capacity in the country.

Most IC design houses and even the entire semiconductor supply chain previously expected business performances to improve quarter by quarter after hitting the bottom in first-quarter 2023, but the expectation is gradually cooling down. Now they are increasingly concerned if a weak peak season seen last year will re-appear this year, according to industry observers.

SMC Co. (OTCMKTS:SMCAY – Get Rating) reached a new 52-week high on Thursday . The company traded as high as $27.05 and last traded at $26.74, with a volume of 28142 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $26.11. Wall Street Analyst Weigh In Separately, Credit Suisse Group downgraded SMC from an “outperform” […]

Musk expressed "some inevitability" about China's move to take control of Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its territory.

Rapidus, Japans newly created semiconductor champion that seeks to reach 2nm production by 2027, indicated that it has completed the preparatory work of its first EUV lithography machine. The EUV equipment will be in place before Rapidus trial production begins in 2025. Meanwhile, preparatory work to obtain another EUV machine is already underway.

EDA specialist Synopsys has recently announced its collaboration with TSMC to deliver digital and custom design EDA flows on the foundrys most advanced N2 (2nm) process, aiming to meet stringent design targets on next-generation system-on-chips (SoCs).

NXP Semiconductors and TSMC have jointly announced their collaboration to deliver the industrys first automotive embedded MRAM in 16 nm FinFET technology.

Etron Technology together with subsidiary eEver Technology has rolled out its new-generation stream processor unit (SPU) built using TSMCs 28nm process.