semiconductors

Modi’s manufacturing plan stuck on assembly line

A stalled chipmaking plan is casting doubt on a costly industrial policy campaign. Will subsidies only create low-end jobs that…

2 years ago

Malaysian R&D: Grow a backbone!

LET these numbers sink in. Malaysia, as a country, spends US$10 billion (RM43.16 billion) annually on research and development (R&D)…

2 years ago

Samsung profit plunges as memory chip crash eats into earnings

Samsung Electronics Co.’s quarterly profit tumbled, hurt by a sharp drop in demand for semiconductors as consumers spent less on…

2 years ago

Energy, Chips, Taiwan: Flashpoints for 2023 in a fractured world

A new age of great-power rivalry is redrawing the map of the world economy and forcing business chiefs to navigate…

2 years ago

Samsung veteran sounds alarm on Korea losing global chip war

This is the time to offer Korean companies more incentives to build production capacity at home, rather than abroad, Yang…

2 years ago

Samsung veteran sounds alarm on Korea losing a global chip war

IN THREE decades at Samsung Electronics Co, Yang Hyang-ja (picture) helped shape the 84-year-old conglomerate’s present dominance in global memory…

2 years ago

Buffett bets US$5b on chipmaking with new stake in TSMC

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. took a stake of about $5 billion in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., disclosing its holding…

2 years ago

Chipmaker GlobalFoundries to start job cuts, freeze hiring

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc, the biggest US-based provider of made-to-order semiconductors, is beginning job cuts and has enacted a hiring freeze. The…

2 years ago

Secretive chip startup may help Huawei circumvent US sanctions

When the US government blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co. as a national security threat, it cut the Chinese company off from…

2 years ago

Why iPhone is missing from Foxconn’s Asian tour

by TIM CULPAN (Bloomberg Opinion)  WHEN Foxconn Technology Group’s Young Liu (picture) toured Asia last month, he avoided speaking about…

3 years ago

Toyota’s Hybrid Bet Vindicated by Big Gains in U.S. Market Share

By BLOOMBERG As automakers prepared to roll out their first-quarter sales results, prognosticator Cox Automotive said it expects Toyota to post strong gains and maybe…

3 years ago

Japan Reveals Details of Chip, Machine-Tool Ban on Russia

By BLOOMBERG Japan announced details of its export ban on semiconductors, machinery and materials against Russia, as it stays in…

3 years ago

Toshiba to More Than Double Power Chip Output With New Plant

By BLOOMBERG Toshiba Corp. will build a new 300-millimeter wafer fabrication plant for power semiconductors that will more than double…

3 years ago