The United States and Taiwan on Thursday reached a new trade agreement aimed at reshoring semiconductor manufacturing and strengthening U.S. supply chains, according to the Department of Commerce. The ...

1. On December 22, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effects of imports of semiconductors (semiconductors or chips), semiconductor ...

The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry. By Ana Swanson and Tripp Mickle Ana ...

Space Forge is on a mission to manufacture semiconductors in space—no humans required. And on Wednesday the U.K.-based aerospace startup announced that it had taken a major step toward that goal by ...

Trump administration trade officials said China should be punished for employing unfair tactics to dominate the semiconductor industry, but will wait 18 months to impose tariffs. A U.S. Trade ...

An investigation ruled that China’s inroads into the chip industry had hurt the United States. The administration delayed tariffs until 2027 amid a fragile truce between the countries. By Ana Swanson ...

A Dutch chipmaker is planning to sell its Austin campus, long home to its U.S. headquarters, amid a workforce reduction of undisclosed size. NXP Semiconductors NV plans to market the 155-acre campus ...

NXP Semiconductors plans to close a chip factory in Chandler, Arizona, due to declining demand. The facility, which opened in 2020, produces specialized chips for 5G telecommunications infrastructure.

At the heart of China’s semiconductor policy is a hybrid industrial system that blends centralized strategic direction with decentralized market competition. Do U.S. technology transfer restrictions ...

[Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode and wire it up right, and you’ve got yourself a nifty little IR detector.

An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Tohoku University (Japan), and École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) has made a significant discovery in semiconductor ...

President Donald Trump said he would set levies on semiconductors in the coming two weeks, the latest indication he’s readying a substantial expansion of his tariff regime. “I’ll be setting tariffs ...