Previously, there were concerns that South Korea’s legal work-hour restrictions could weaken the competitiveness of its tech industry. According to Chosun Biz, the government now plans to introduce a provision extending the special work-hour exemption for semiconductor research positions from the ...

Is the new U.S. Chip National Team in the making? According to Reuters, TSMC, after an additional $100 billion in the American soil on March 3rd, has reportedly approached NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about investing in a joint venture to run Intel's foundry operations. The report suggests...

As noted by Korean media outlet The Financial News, citing sources, Samsung Electronics brought in its first High-NA EUV equipment, the EXE:5000, to its Hwaseong campus earlier this month. This equipment, priced at approximately 500 billion KRW (around 500 million USD), is exclusively supplied by...

Tech giants are ramping up in-house AI chip development to cut costs and reduce reliance on NVIDIA, and Meta is following suit. According to Reuters, Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip, while another Commercial Times report suggests the chip will be built on TSMC’s 5nm process, wi...

According to a report from TechNews, citing Forbes, while Chinese AI startup DeepSeek claims its computing resources are limited, numerous idle data centers across China are filled with advanced GPUs, waiting to be used—highlighting the challenges in China’s AI development. As noted in the re...