ASML shocks Wall Street with financial guidance
Short term woes, woes and thrice woes
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street choked on their aperitifs yesterday when computer chip equipment maker ASML warned that it might be making as much cash in the short term as expected.
Canon tries to crash the chip party with cheap machines
Processor will shut down if your toner runs low
Printer maker Canon is having a go at making cheap chip-making machines as early as this year, as the Japanese firm best known for its snappers and printers tries to nick some business from the longtime industry leader ASML.
Canon plans to barrel its way onto ASML’s turf
Undercutting the Dutch
Canon plans to price its new chipmaking gear at a fraction of the cost of ASML Holding NV's best lithography machines.
Suppliers should buy chips sold to blacklisted Yangtze Memory Technologies back
Do the right thing
Blacklisted Yangtze Memory Technologies Co has asked its suppliers to buy back the chips and equipment it is forbidden to use.
US government wants more sanctions against Chinese chip makers
Wants to set the Chinese back ten years
The US government is working on even tighter restrictions to set Chinese chipmakers back nearly a decade.
Dutch government blocks sales of chip printing machines to China
Now the Dutch are surrendering to US
The Dutch government confirmed for the first time it will impose new export controls on microchips manufacturing equipment on China.
Intel completes 1.8nm and 2nm node development
Does not mean that it is good to go
Intel has completed development of its Intel 18A (1.8nm-class) and Intel 20A (2nm-class) fabrication processes for its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) division, Tom's Hardware says.
Huawei learns how extreme ultraviolet lithography works
China no longer depends on Dutch or US tech
Huawei is now able to create chips using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) which means that it finally has a foot in the door of serious chip development.
ASML attacks US trade restrictions on China
It makes no sense and only benefits US companies
Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML CEO Peter Wennink has waded into the US’s moves to get the Netherlands to adopt new rules restricting exports to China make sense.
China’s chip industry growing faster than anywhere in the world
It looks like Trump’s tech war made things worse
China's chip industry is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, after US sanctions on local champions from Huawei to Hikvision spurred appetite for home-grown components.