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AMD reportedly outsources some of its upcoming Zen 5c-based CPUs to Samsung Foundry.

The new Sapeon X330 chip "represents roughly twice the computational performance and 1.3 times better power efficiency" than competitors products launched this year, the company said in a statement, without elaborating further on the competitors.

Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan's semiconductor capital, 40 residents braved lashing winds in early October to protest plans to take their rural land for cutting-edge chip production. Two weeks later, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, dropped plans to build a factory as part of the science park expansion in the bucolic Longtan district nearby - a development that heartened p...

The companies would each acquire 10% of shares in the European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), founded by TSMC, said the German cartel office.

If the land crunch on the densely populated and mountainous island pushes TSMC to shift more production outside Taiwan - countries such as the United States, Japan and Germany have offered it billions in incentives to do so - it could weaken the backbone of Taiwans economy, analysts say.

The companies would each acquire 10% of shares in the European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), founded by TSMC, it said. "The recent geopolitical upheavals have shown how important secured access to semiconductors is, especially for the German industry," Andreas Mundt, president of the cartel office, said in a statement. He added that both the European Union and Germany were committed to locating more semiconductor production in Europe and Germany.

The companies would each acquire 10% of shares in the European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), founded by TSMC, said the German cartel office.

"The question you should ask investors is: Do you want to bet against people in Asia?"

Taiwan imports almost all its energy needs, mostly in the form of natural gas and coal, but has embarked on a big push for more renewable energy to achieve its carbon neutral target.

The chipmaker was set to increase its market value by nearly $11 billion. Other chip firms such as Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and Arm rose 1.6% to 2.2%.