During the heated U.S.-China tariff battle in April, China wielded rare earths as a weapon by halting exports. According to a Liberty Times report citing The Economist, while the move seemed effective, it will likely “backfire” in the long run, as China’s export controls in recent years have p...

Samsung Electronics, struggling with HBM3E verification for NVIDIA, reported a drop in its global DRAM market share in its semi-annual report released on Aug. 14, according to South Korean media outlets Sedaily and The Hankyoreh. The company’s DRAM share by value reportedly fell to 32.7% in H1 202...

According to San Francisco Chronicle, Altera—the programmable chipmaker recently spun off from Intel—plans to cut about 82 jobs at its San Jose headquarters, based on a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the state of California. The job cuts at Altera were announc...

According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say Intel and the Trump administration are in talks over a potential deal that would see the U.S. government take a stake in the struggling chipmaker. Trump reportedly discussed the idea with Intel in a Monday meeting at the White House, though detail...

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. ...