Semiconductor industry veteran Yin – who previously worked in the US at Applied Materials, Lam Research and Intel – identified as a US citizen in AMEC’s annual reports for 2022, 2021 and 2020. AMEC did not state Yin’s nationality in the firm’s 2023 report. The change of citizenship for Yin, 81, is the latest sign…
The escalating tech war between the US and China is redrawing the global technology map—and India finds itself both exposed and empowered by the fallout. Aniruddh Suri, nonresident scholar at Carnegie India and author of The Great Tech Game, laid out the implications in this edition of The Gist. What began as a trade war…
Naura Technology Group, China’s top chip equipment maker, said it expects a sharp rise in revenue and profit for the first quarter of 2025, after reporting strong performance in 2024, highlighting the country’s progress towards semiconductor self-sufficiency. The Beijing-based company, a key equipment supplier for the domestic chip industry, said in a corporate filing on…
A breakthrough in next-generation semiconductor technology has been announced by Chinese researchers, with the creation of the world’s largest N-polar gallium nitride (GaN) wafer, at eight inches. In what is seen as a game changer for the semiconductor industry, the wafer could slash production costs by 40 per cent – a milestone which is expected…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Why was China’s No 3 official Zhao Leji missing at the end of ‘two sessions’? Zhao Leji, the third most senior official in China’s ruling Communist Party and chairman…
ASML Holding, the world’s top supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment caught in the US-China tech rivalry, will build a “reuse and repair” centre in Beijing this year, showing its commitment to the world’s second-largest economy despite pressure from Washington. The Dutch firm, which has been unable to sell its extreme ultraviolet lithography systems to its…
China is producing twice as many research papers as the US on chip design and fabrication, laying the foundation for a possible leadership role in next-generation semiconductor technology, according to a US think tank. While China is behind in advanced semiconductors and is restricted from buying high-end chipmaking tools such as the extreme ultraviolet lithography…
Hong Kong is betting on the RISC-V open-source chip architecture to drive innovation and secure a position in China’s semiconductor landscape amid escalating US chip restrictions. RISC-V stands for the fifth generation of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer, a design philosophy for simplified architectures for central processing units (CPUs). As an open-source project, it is…
The proposed 25% tariff on semiconductors by US President Donald Trump is unlikely to affect India’s semiconductor industry due to two key reasons. First, India’s semiconductor ecosystem is still in its early stages, and the country does not currently export chips. Second, even as India develops its chip manufacturing and assembly ecosystem in the coming…
Malaysia’s semiconductor industry stands to benefit from the escalating US-China tech war, as trade restrictions steer more companies to consider the Southeast Asian country as a viable alternative in the global chip supply chain, according to experts. As the US government continues to tighten trade restrictions on China, Malaysia is seeing more opportunities to develop…