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China will invade Taiwan to control TSMC
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 08 June 2022 10:30

China will invade Taiwan to control TSMC


If the West imposses sanctions

Chief economist for the China Center for International Economic Exchanges Chen Wenling has suggested that if the West brings in sanctions against China the country will invade Taiwan to obtain control of TSMC.

Electronic companies abandoning Covid 19 ravaged China
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More than 30 Taiwan companies can’t cope with government measures  

More than 30 Taiwan companies, many making electronics parts, said that government COVID-19 control measures in eastern China had led them to suspend production until at least next week.

Taiwan wants to set up chip plants in Eastern Europe
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Backed by Brussels

Taiwan is looking at cooperating with three Eastern European countries on semiconductors, a minister said.

Taiwan says it is not worried about EU chip production
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We will still make the high tech stuff

Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua on Wednesday played down the prospect of Taiwan tech firms making advanced semiconductors in the European Union, noting TSMC has insisted it will focus its most advanced technology on the island.

Taiwan will help US blacklist Chinese tech
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Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:47

Taiwan will help US blacklist Chinese tech


It is what Chiang Kai-shek would have wanted


Taiwan promised its chip companies will adhere to US rules after Washington added seven Chinese supercomputing entities last week to an economic blacklist and after a Taipei-based chipmaker halted orders from one of the entities named.

Taiwan's farmers at odds with chipmakers
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Monday, 12 April 2021 12:17

Taiwan's farmers at odds with chipmakers


We need water too

Taiwan's farmers are dealing with one of the worst droughts on record and are hacked off that available water is being given to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to make rich American kid's iPhones.

Taiwan is part of US anti-China moves
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Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:04

Taiwan is part of US anti-China moves


More co-operation expected

Taiwan is the US key ally to take shift global supply chains away from China, its de facto US ambassador said.

Taiwan to prioritise chips for cars
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Wednesday, 27 January 2021 11:43

Taiwan to prioritise chips for cars

 
So your GPU is well down the list

Major Taiwanese chipmakers are willing to prioritise supplies for auto makers amid a global shortage of chips for the industry, the island’s economics minister said after meeting with company executives.

UMC pays  $60 million to stop US spying case
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Friday, 30 October 2020 11:34

UMC pays $60 million to stop US spying case


Nothing to see here move on

Taiwan's second-largest contract chipmaker United Microelectronics has agreed to pay a $60 million fine to make an industrial espionage lawsuit with the US Department of Justice go away.

Taiwanese boffins make MRAM breakthrough
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Friday, 25 September 2020 10:01

Taiwanese boffins make MRAM breakthrough


Unless it is all spin

Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is being touted as the next big thing for tech, even if manipulating MRAM efficiently and effectively is challenging.