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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. Commerce Department opened applications Tuesday for $39 billion in funding for semiconductor chip…

The Commerce Department on Thursday also targeted nine Chinese entities for allegedly seeking to support China's military modernisation, including Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE), China's only lithography company. A total of 35…

NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar -- hard candy, basically -- and sending these sweet…

A Chinese-owned tech company has been told to sell the majority of its stake in a UK silicon chip factory due to security concerns.The government has said Nexperia must reduce its stake in Newport Wafer Fab by 86%, back to its…

French carmaker Renault said Tuesday that sales of its conventional and electrical vehicles fell in the first half of this year, impacted by the worldwide shortage of semiconductors. It said it sold 1,000,199 units in the first half of…

A former employee of Dutch company ASML which makes cutting-edge semiconductor circuits has been accused of stealing its technology on behalf of a Chinese corporation backed by Beijing. Zongchang Yu worked as an engineer at ASML until 2012,…

Spain’s government has approved a plan to spend 12.25 billion euros ($13.12 billion) on the semiconductor and micro chip industry by 2027, Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said on Tuesday, including 9.3 euros to fund the building of plants.…

The acquisition of the UK's biggest microchip factory, Newport Wafer Fab, by a Chinese-owned technology company is to undergo a national security assessment.The business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced the move after…

A global semiconductor shortage, which has led to the equivalent of nearly a year of layoffs for local Stellantis autoworkers, will likely continue into next year, according to some auto industry officials.  The shortage of semiconductors,…

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities research team has developed a new microfluidic chip for diagnosing diseases that uses a minimal number of components and can be powered wirelessly by a smartphone. The innovation opens the door for…