After CEO Lip-Bu Tan met with President Donald Trump last week, Intel seems to be getting some breathing air amid struggles, as the chipmaker scored a $2 billion boost from SoftBank, which bought shares at $23 each, just below Intel’s $23.66 close, CNBC reports. Meanwhile, the company could als...

China’s No. 2 foundry, Hua Hong Semiconductor, is reportedly moving to acquire a controlling stake in Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) via a combination of share issuance and cash, along with a supporting capital raise, according to ijiwei and Security Times. The deal, aiming to resolve t...

Market rumors suggest NVIDIA has kicked off development of its own HBM base die, sending ripples through the supply chain as it could reshape the next-generation HBM landscape. According to the Commercial Times, the chip is expected to be built on the 3nm node, with small-batch trial production sche...

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. ...