SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with TSMC to realize what could be his biggest bet yet — a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build robots and AI. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/20/companies/masayoshi-son-ai-hub-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #tsmc #masayoshison #us #arizona #ai #tech
Taiwan's TSMC and Tokyo University are opening a chip lab on the university's main campus in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/todai-tsmc-lab/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #taiwan #tsmc #chipmakers #ai #kumamoto #manufacturing #tech #taiwanjapanrelations #universityoftokyo
https://www.europesays.com/2151008/ JGGI moves into ‘unduly punished’ stocks amid Trump’s global trade war #business #DonaldTrump #JamesCook #JGGI #JPMorganGlobalGrowthAndIncome #MarketVolatility #RossStores #tariffs #TradeWar #TSMC #VIX
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company CEO C. C. Wei blamed worsening traffic snarls for slight delays in expanding its base in southwest Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/03/companies/tsmc-delay-traffic/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #taiwan #tsmc #chipmakers #donaldtrump #tariffs #artificialintelligence
If #China invades #Taiwan, expect to keep using the devices you currently have for a *VERY* long time. It seems to me that if Taiwan were at risk of takeover, the #TSMC #lithography machines would suddenly all self destruct. And if we try to protect Taiwan, China will activate all the kill switches in our power #grid. So not only will you not get a new PC for 20 years, there won't be any #electricity to run it. Unless you have #solar and #batteries.
Who thinks a #military clash between US and China is somewhat likely while 
is in power?
TSMC gründet Chipdesign-Zentrum in München
Auf TSMCs erstes europäisches Halbleiterwerk folgt das erste europäische Zentrum für Chipdesigns. Auch das entsteht in Deutschland.
Foreign investors could once barely imagine that China would invade Taiwan, but many now view it as a tail-risk scenario they must prepare for, although they cannot find ways to do so. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/22/markets/china-taiwan-conflict-investors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #china #taiwan #tech #semiconductors #tsmc #trade #us #investments #tariffs
Nintendo has hired Samsung to build the main chips for the Switch 2, including an 8-nanometer processor custom designed by NVIDIA, in a move away from TSMC. Read more at @Engadget. #Nintendo #Switch2 #NVIDIA #TSMC #Microchips #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/FQyw1s
@landley @gettie that being said I've yet to see any competition since #Cyrix got stomped out, #Transmeta failed and #VIA sold parts of #CentaurTechnology to #Zhaoxin which now fab their stuff on 16nm surplus'd #TSMC nodes that were slated for export to MCST but got embargo'd for obvious reasons...
Still, it angers me since @OS1337 aims to be a foundation [to at least be able to recover data or backup/restore ancient hardware one can't get to run elsewhere]…
#TSMC Starts Building #US Chip Factory Within Hours Of Receiving Permit
#TSMC's ground breaking comes the same day the firm received construction permits for the third fabrication plant. The speed appears to have been timed with media reports from #Taiwan have claimed that TSMC is yet to submit details of its $100 billion additional investment to the US to the #Taiwanese government for approval.
#Apple, #NVIDIA & #AMD CEOs Praise TSMC's Construction Activities In #Arizona
https://wccftech.com/tsmc-starts-building-us-chip-factory-within-hours-of-receiving-permit-amd-ceo-says-2nm-hpc-chips-in-play/
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at India's controversial court ruling, an exodus of European research from China, and a massive hack on South Korea’s leading telco.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/india-okay-to-spy-on-citizens-asian-roundup
By law, chip manufacturer #TSMC is to be required to always produce the latest and greatest chips in #Taiwan. Overseas, however, with the aim of targeting the #USA, only chips one or two generations older will be allowed.
The madness of more and more governments is spreading and gradually turning the world into a madhouse.
Guerre commerciale 
Alors que la course mondiale à l'intelligence artificielle (IA) se poursuit au milieu d'une guerre commerciale entre les États-Unis et la Chine, la Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) - un titan de 514 milliards de dollars qui fabrique la plupart des puces d'IA du monde - avertit qu'il pourrait ne pas être possible de garder la technologie la plus avancée de ses clients hors des mains de la Chine.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/trump-cant-keep-china-from-getting-ai-chips-tsmc-suggests/
#TSMC #Chine #USA #guerre #IA #AI
Earnings from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and ASML Holding this week are poised to provide an early insight into issues that have punctured investor confidence and sent valuations to multiyear lows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/tech/tsmc-asml-tariff-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tsmc #asml #trade #semiconductors #ai
Trump says he told #TSMC it would pay 100% #tariff if it doesn't build in #US
The company plans to spend $200 billion on its U.S. manufacturing site, according to President Trump. He also denounced a $6.6 billion financial package provided to TSMC to build fabs in Arizona under the #CHIPSAct enacted by the former President Joe Biden, arguing it was unnecessary.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-told-tsmc-it-would-pay-100-tax-if-it-doesnt-build-us-2025-04-09/
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has pledged to build new factories in the United States, it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it did not build its plants in the country. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump #Tariffs #Taiwan #tsmc #Arizona #Phoenix
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei artificial intelligence processor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/09/tech/tsmc-billion-fine-us-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #semiconductors #taiwan #tsmc #us #tech #nvidia #huawei #china
U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of more trade barriers have accelerated Taiwanese electronic firms' migration of manufacturing to the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/19/tech/tariff-tsmc-taiwan-us-expansion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #donaldtrump #taiwan #tsmc #semiconductors #trade
Intel has named tech industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its new chief executive, boosting shares of the U.S. computer chipmaker struggling to catch up in the artificial intelligence race. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/13/tech/intel-lip-bu-tan-ceo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #intel #semiconductors #tech #lipbutan #tsmc
Back in September of 2024 I speculated that #TSMC’s #Apple A16 chip production in the US would end up in the next #iPad. Nice to see I was on the right track. Of course, we weren’t taking the tariff threats seriously at the time. #tech https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/09/apple-a16-ipad-11-special-trick-tariffs/
