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Nikkei Asia
4 days ago
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
The final chip challenge: Can China build its own ASML?
CHENG TING-FANG, LAULY LI and SHUNSUKE TABETA In southeastern Beijing, engineers at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's top chipmaker, are working around the clock to expand the output of 14-nanometer and even 7-nm chips, just a few generations behind the world's leading chipmakers. Being able to make such advanced chips at all is a major breakthrough for a company that has been laboring under a U.S. blacklisting for five years. But SMIC's mission goes beyond just making the chips. It wants to produce them entirely with Chinese equipment.
Nikkei Asia
03-07-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Samsung delaying completion of US chip plant due to lack of customers
South Korea's Samsung has invested billions in the U.S. and plans further spending to expand chipmaking capacity there. (Source photos by Samsung) KIM JAEWON and CHENG TING-FANG SEOUL/TAIPEI -- Samsung Electronics is delaying completion of a semiconductor factory in the U.S. state of Texas, as the South Korean chipmaker struggles to find customers for the plant's output, sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia. Samsung has said it will invest more than $37 billion in Texas in the coming years, having been awarded a grant by the Biden administration of up to $4.7 billion in December under the CHIPS and Science Act, which aimed to advance U.S. technology leadership.
Nikkei Asia
14-05-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Japan, Netherlands win as China's chip tool imports surge on US tensions
CHENG TING-FANG, LAULY LI and KIM JAEWON TAIPEI/SEOUL -- China bought a record amount of foreign chipmaking equipment in 2024 as part of efforts to massively expand domestic chip production as well as build up stockpiles of key tools amid rising tensions with the U.S. Of the $30.9 billion imported from major sources, nearly $20 billion came from Japan and the Netherlands, Nikkei Asia found, with smaller sources like Malaysia and Singapore also rising sharply.
