TSMC has announced that its 2nm process has entered mass production on schedule this quarter, with momentum at the advanced-node level continuing to build. According to Economic Daily News, sources say that because its 2nm yields have exceeded expectations, the company’s 1.4nm advanced process fab...

TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo has moved to Intel, drawing industry attention over potential risks to sensitive advanced-process expertise, and new details are now emerging. According to Liberty Times, industry sources say investigators searched Lo’ s residence in late November, seized mul...

While mature-node foundries, led by SMIC, have sparked a new wave of price hikes, TSMC is reportedly joining the trend. According to the Economic Daily News, the company has notified clients that it will raise prices for advanced nodes consecutively from 2026 through 2029, with the new 2026 rates ta...

Will Samsung emerge as an alternative to TSMC for manufacturing NVIDIA chips? A recent move by Team Green has raised that possibility. According to Commercial Times, AI chip startup Groq has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with NVIDIA, with key members of the Groq team joining NVIDI...

Just before year-end, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. on the 27th, with the epicenter off Yilan and seismic intensity reaching level four in Hsinchu City and County — heightening concerns over potential disruption to foundries and memory makers. Commercial Times, citing T...