On August 13, China’s first domestically developed commercial electron beam lithography machine, Xizhi, was officially unveiled in Yuhang, Zhejiang. According to Hangzhou Government Website, this machine is one of the first projects signed at Zhejiang University’s Technology Commercialization...

Following peers ASML and Tokyo Electron signaling caution on 2026 prospects, U.S. chipmaking equipment leader Applied Materials forecast a drop in fourth-quarter revenue, blaming sluggish demand in China and choppy orders from customers rattled by tariff-driven uncertainty, according to Reuters. ...

With chipmaking tools at the center of the U.S.-China tech war, Chinese equipment maker Beijing E-town Semiconductor has sued U.S. giant Applied Materials for allegedly stealing trade secrets, seeking 99.99 million yuan ($13.9 million) in damages for violating China's Anti-Unfair Competition Law, ac...

A fire at Japanese industrial gas maker Kanto Denka Kogyo’s nitrogen trifluoride operations is raising alarms over semiconductor supply chain disruptions, as the company supplies major clients including TSMC, Samsung, Micron, and Japan’s Kioxia, Sony, and Rapidus—highlighting the potentially w...

After announcing in early July plans to wind down its Gallium Nitride (GaN) wafer foundry services by July 31, 2027, TSMC has now confirmed—following yesterday’s board meeting—that it will also phase out 6-inch wafer production within two years and further consolidate 8-inch capacity to improv...