How China built its 'Manhattan Project' to rival the West in AI chipsCompleted in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly an entire factory floor. It was built by a team of former en...
18 Dec, 2025, 06.19 PM IST
How China built its 'Manhattan Project' to rival the West in AI chipsChina has reportedly built a prototype EUV lithography machine. This development, achieved by former ASML engineers, aims to enable domesti...
17 Dec, 2025, 09.53 PM IST
ASML beats Q2 earnings forecasts; bookings rise on AI demandASML dominates the market for lithography systems, complex tools that use lasers to help create the tiny circuitry of computer chips. Compa...
17 Jul, 2024, 01.04 PM IST
ASML's order book expected to benefit from AI chip boomASML dominates the market for lithography systems, complex tools that use lasers to help create the tiny circuitry of computer chips. Analy...
16 Jul, 2024, 12.37 PM IST
Japan's Canon says interest in new chipmaking tools exceed expectationsIn October, Canon unveiled its new nanoimprint lithography machines, which stamp circuit patterns directly onto wafers. The company emphasi...
30 Jan, 2024, 04.40 PM IST
Japanese chemicals company sees potential niche in EUV chip making materialsOsaka Organic Chemical Industry, a Japanese manufacturer of high-end chemicals used in chip production, is betting on the materials market ...
26 Jul, 2023, 12.06 PM IST
Dutch government curbs chip equipment exports, brings new laws amid US pressureThe rules, which will require companies that make advanced chipmaking equipment to seek a licence before they can export it, are expected t...
30 Jun, 2023, 04.26 PM IST
Japan fund eyes JSR buyout as Tokyo ramps up chip interventionAn acquisition by Japan Investment Corp (JIC), overseen by the powerful trade ministry, would be the latest in a series of increasingly mus...
26 Jun, 2023, 11.28 AM IST
Japan ramps up efforts to strengthen its chip industryHere is a look at investments in Japan announced by chipmakers and measures the government is taking to revive its semiconductor industry.
26 Jun, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
Ahead of G7, Japan PM welcomes more investment from global chipmakersGrowing Taiwan and U.S. tensions with China have brought serious challenges to the semiconductor industry, with Taiwan a major producer of ...
19 May, 2023, 11.08 AM IST
Micron to invest $3.7 billion in Japan for new DRAM chipsThe latest extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) chipmaking machines will be used to make 1-gamma chips, which can be used for mass product...
18 May, 2023, 10.24 AM IST
Japan PM Fumio Kishida expects more investment from global chipmakersSpeaking to the reporters after meeting the executives, including those from Intel Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Kishida ...
18 May, 2023, 10.06 AM IST
ASML, Europe’s most valuable tech firm, is at the heart of the US-China chip warASML is being treated as a vital infrastructure tool for the National US national security and at the same time, has become a sort of indus...
27 Apr, 2023, 09.38 AM IST
Chinese trade group opposes chip export controls from US, Netherlands, JapanThe restrictions, should they become a reality, "will cause serious harm to the semiconductor industry in China, with detriment to the glob...
15 Feb, 2023, 05.10 PM IST
US wants Dutch supplier to stop selling chipmaking gear to ChinaWashington’s proposed restriction would expand an existing moratorium on the sale of the most advanced systems to China, in an attempt to t...
06 Jul, 2022, 10.01 AM IST
The tech cold war’s ‘most complicated machine’ that's out of China’s reachThe complex machine is widely acknowledged as necessary for making the most advanced chips, an ability with geopolitical implications. The ...
09 Jul, 2021, 10.13 AM IST
Wondering how iPhones becoming sleeker every year? Thank this Tokyo-based companyChipmakers are making a costly bet on a technology that will cram even more transistors onto silicon.
12 Mar, 2019, 06.42 PM IST