Japan is advancing its 2nm ambitions with Rapidus, and the investment required is enormous. According to Japanese outlet Kyodo News, sources say Canon is in the final stages of negotiations to invest in Rapidus, with the amount expected to be in the several-billion-yen range. As a semiconductor equi...

After nearly a month of rumors that former TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo had jumped to Intel—and may have taken sub-2nm process documents with him—the foundry giant finally broke its silence last night. According to the Economic Daily News, TSMC confirmed that on November 25 it filed a l...

Last week, TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei received the semiconductor industry's top honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award, and revealed that demand now exceeds the company’s capacity by three times, leaving advanced process capacity “massively insufficient,” Commercial Times reports. Amid surging AI chip d...

Amid growing speculation that TSMC has begun alerting clients to a 2026 price hike, new reports are adding fuel to the fire. According to a Naver post by leaker yeux1122, cited by MacRumors and Wccftech, the foundry giant has notified key customers—including Apple—of upcoming price increases for...

Riding the wave of the memory supercycle, Samsung joined SK hynix in posting stellar third-quarter results. Following SK hynix’s record-breaking profit, Samsung reported a 32% year-on-year surge in operating profit in the third quarter — its strongest performance in over three years, according t...