Ahead of a new round of U.S.-China trade talks in Spain from September 14 to 17, Beijing has stepped up pressure on Washington. On Saturday, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced anti-dumping investigations targeting U.S. analog chips from Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Onsemi, and ADI, according t...

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 ...

According to Economic Daily News, industry sources note that Taiwan’s leading IC design firms are sharply cutting wafer foundry orders for mature nodes in the second half of the year. In Q3 alone, orders have dropped 20–30% from Q2 levels. As a result, utilization rates at mature-node foundrie...

Amid tariff uncertainty under Trump, major U.S. and European chipmakers shared their outlooks in recent earnings calls. Some reported no clear shifts in customer behavior, while others outlined plans and potential impact timelines. Here's a quick read on how Intel, TI, NXP, and STMicroelectronics ar...

Ahead of any official chip duties announced by Washington, the China Semiconductor Industry Association advised last Friday that the origin of integrated circuits should be determined by where the wafer is fabricated, whether packaged or not. Under these rules, according to ijiwei, chips fabricated ...