According to ijiwei, Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced its largest-ever price hike for Chinese customers, raising prices by 10% to 30% on more than 60,000 products. While TI’s notice states that the new pricing will take effect on August 15, some Chinese customers report that the changes have ...

Just ahead of the reciprocal tariffs taking effect on August 7, U.S. President Trump announced plans to slap a 100% tariff on imported chips. According to Politico, the U.S. imported over $60 billion worth of chips in 2024, with Taiwan emerging as the top supplier at roughly $12 billion. As a result...

U.S. President Trump announced on the 7th plans to impose a 100% tariff on semiconductors, while noting that chips manufactured in the U.S. would be exempt. As such, TSMC is expected to qualify for the exemption. In line with this, MoneyDJ notes that TSMC is accelerating construction of its U.S. fab...

U.S. NAND leader Sandisk, fresh off launching a Technical Advisory Board to guide its groundbreaking High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) technology in July, has now signed a landmark MoU with South Korean memory giant SK hynix. The partnership aims to jointly define the HBF specifications—poised to revolut...

TSMC, spared from the looming 100% chip tariffs thanks to its massive U.S. investments, rocked the global semiconductor world recently by revealing a leak of its 2nm process. Reports say the company filed complaints with prosecutors, leading to three engineers being detained incommunicado. Notabl...