Ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, U.S. semiconductor equipment giants Applied Materials and Lam Research are already working out to exclude Chinese firms from supply chains, driven by Washington’s directives to limit China’s role in sensitive leading-edge technologies, according ...

Amid the escalating tech war between China and the US, along with rising geopolitical tensions, China has accelerated its import of chip manufacturing equipment since the middle of last year to counter potential US chip sanctions, with Dutch company ASML and Japanese company Tokyo Electron (TEL) be...

According to a report from Bloomberg, Applied Materials Inc. pointed out that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested information regarding its federal grant applications, further intensifying the government's investigation into the company's operations. Per a regulatory filing last we...

As semiconductor giants, including Intel, TSMC and Samsung, have been competing fiercely in the Angstrom era for advanced nodes, the progress on their adoption of ASML’s High-NA EUV (high-numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet) equipment has been brought back into spotlight lately. However, the se...

Semiconductor giants like Intel, TSMC, Samsung and Micron have received huge amount of grants from the U.S. government, funded through the CHIPS and Science Act. However, chip making equipment maker Applied Materials is said to be in a different scenario. According to reports by Bloomberg and Tom’...