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...In February, the Chinese commerce ministry issued a statement criticising sanctions imposed on 17 companies in Hong Kong and mainland China for alleged violations of Russia-related sanctions....
...“The Department of Commerce’s visibility into high-performance computing chip exports worldwide is going to go way up,” Allen said....
...The warning echoed one by US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo last year, who said: “Our dependence on Taiwan for chips is untenable and unsafe.”...
...US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo announced on Monday that the South Korean chipmaker was set to produce chips at the 2 nanometre level of miniaturisation at a new fabrication plant, or fab, it was building...
...Three Chinese engineers at design groups working with TSMC said it was difficult for the Taiwanese group or any fab to accurately judge a processor’s power....
...He said the two groups were involved in the design of chips that undermined US national security....
...plants, known as fabs....
...The No 10 General Design Department of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation on Monday published a post on China’s social media service WeChat advising staff of procedures to check their iPhone...
...Regaining lost ground To support its new chip designs, Intel has announced a spate of giant new manufacturing plants, known as fabs, with the economies of scale needed to justify the capital-intensive processes...
...High-end software engineers in Silicon Valley design chips. Minimum wage retail staff sell the gadgets that contain them....
...“These people all have the experience that helps Chinese fabs speed up and optimise production.”...
...For the next several decades, where the fabs are is more important because every aspect of human existence is becoming more digital. Michela Tindera Gelsinger’s talking about fabs....
...He made the official announcement on Friday, writing on Twitter that Yaccarino, 60, “will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology”....
...The plants are central to the company’s goal of trying to compete head-on with TSMC by becoming a “foundry” that manufacturers chips on behalf of other companies rather than only to its own designs....
...TSMC’s foundry services spawned an entire new breed of “fabless” chip companies, such as Nvidia, the graphics chip design house founded in 1993....
...Last summer, Apple posted a position on its job pages for someone to “drive the design of the most privacy-forward, sophisticated demand side platform possible”....
...Glacial power By design, Apple typically expands into new sectors not through flashy acquisitions but by incremental steps that give it a sustainable advantage over time....
...So, you know, solve a particular math problem, solve a particular, you know, manufacturing or biological design problem....
...Significantly, a Samsung chip fab was President Joe Biden’s first port of call on a three-day trip to South Korea this month....
...“We write to convey our extreme concern about the possibility that Apple Inc will soon procure 3D Nand memory chips from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co,” the senators said....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The pressure is likely to build as the US attempts to rally allies Korea, Taiwan and Japan behind a “Fab 4 chip alliance” designed to co-ordinate policy on research and development, subsidies and supply...
...Hill was dismissed in 2007 from Commerce Bancorp in the US after a probe by a federal regulator into his dealings with related parties, including real estate transactions involving him and his relatives....
...Additional reporting by Niyakarn Atiyudhakul A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 2 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Last month Chey Tae-won, SK Group chair, said the group had no plan to build a wafer fab in the US, and was only studying preconditions....
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