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President Joe Biden is visiting a South Korean computer chip factory that is the model for a similar plant to be built in Texas. And he says it shows how deeper ties with the Indo Pacific can help fuel tech innovation and foster democracies. Biden spoke Friday as he opened his first trip to Asia as president by touring a...

The war in Ukraine could see the production of neon, a critical gas in advanced chip manufacturing, fall off a cliff.

“Oil reserves have defined geopolitics for the last five decades. Where the fabs [factories] are for a digital future is more important,” Intel’s Pat Gelsinger told CNBC.

The Santa Clara chipmaker said it will build a new “mega factory” in Germany as part of the investment, which is being subsidized with public funding.

For China, the speed with which the U.S. and its allies sanctioned Russia is a warning sign that could guide economic and foreign policy.

Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger is choosing big domestic chip manufacturing investments over short-term shareholder rewards, and he has a big fan: President Biden.

Arm is widely seen as the jewel in the crown of the U.K. tech industry and several people want it to be listed in its home country.

Renault expects to make 300,000 fewer units in 2022 than it potentially could have as a result of the ongoing global chip shortage.

In 2021, global semiconductor industry sales reached a record $555.9 billion, up 26.2% year on year, the U.S.-based Semiconductor Industry Association said.

Arm, the crown jewel in the U.K. tech industry, is set to shun its home stock market.

The semiconductor giants issued a joint statement Tuesday saying the deal has been scrapped due to “significant regulatory challenges.”

Democrats muscled through legislation in the House on Friday that they say positions the United States to better compete with China economically and on the global stage by strengthening the domestic semiconductor industry and shoring up strained supply chains.

TSMC, Intel and Samsung are all planning to make significant investments into semiconductor manufacturing this year.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday debuted a bill designed to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and competition with China.

A European Union court has overturned a 1.06 billion euro ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine that was levied against U.S. chipmaker Intel in 2009.

Nvidia is “quietly” preparing to abandon its $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, Bloomberg News reports.

China’s tech giants Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Meituan have all started investing heavily into chip development.

The metaverse, which requires large amounts of computing power, is set to benefit global chipmakers — but other related industries could also gain, analysts say.

The semiconductor giants submitted a document to the U.K. regulator explaining why the deal should be permitted to go ahead.

TSMC, which makes chips for companies like Apple, reported a sixth straight quarter of record sales as demand for its products rose amid a supply crunch.