At least we can say the Winter Olympics are practiced at holding their events in a communist dictatorship, as they’ve held two of the last three in one. We’re just about three or four days into the whole thing, and already the stories of athletes being held against their will, shitty facilities, unprepared venues, and… […]
Enlarge / TSMC Fab 16. (credit: TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to raise its capital expenditure by almost a third this year as the world’s largest contract chipmaker defies analyst warnings of softening demand for technology gadgets. TSMC expects capital expenditure to reach $44 billion this year, a 32 percent increase from the $30 […]
Enlarge / This machine is checking silicon wafers in a cleanroom lab—class 1 chip facilities must limit dust to 10 particles per cubic meter, 1/1000th the amount found in hospital operating theaters. (credit: Monty Rakusen via Getty Images) Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Chris Rolland noted Tuesday that the wait time for all major semiconductor product […]
Enlarge / A woman watches a mask—a part used in wafer conception—at a show room of the 12-inch United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) factory in Tainan, southern Taiwan. (credit: Sam Yeh | Getty) United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), the world’s fourth-largest contract chipmaker, is expanding its capacity to produce mature technology chips in exchange for financial guarantees, […]
A significant portion of the Micron fab is bathed in yellow light to protect the light-sensitive coating on the wafers. Chips on the wafers are created using a photographic process. Each of the cameras, which are the machines on each side of the aisle, costs about $70 million. (credit: Micron) Semiconductor supply chains have not […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Many of the Asian countries with the most admirable COVID-19 responses share borders with and receive frequent travelers from China, the original epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. A combination of early travel restrictions, mass testing, […]
The very first locally sent the event of Covid-19 in over eight months has been reported at Taiwan, finishing what had been the world’s longest stretch with no national infection and giving a reminder of this virus’s ability to outfox the many prosperous efforts to include it. A 30-year-old girl was verified to have captured […]
When many nations around the globe are hitting new highs from coronavirus instances, Taiwan has achieved a different type of record — 200 times with no locally transmitted instance. Taiwan retains the planet’s greatest virus album by way and attained the new milestone on Thursday, also since the pathogen explodes afresh in Europe along with […]
Lockdowns are a indication of policy failure, based on political commentator and writer Fareed Zakaria. “Lockdowns are an indication you’ve neglected,” that the CNN sponsor and Washington Post columnist stated. “you’re utilizing a massive blunt tool and you’re beating the market. Zakaria commended the policies followed closely by Taiwan, which despite being situated next door […]
“Boeing Defense” are one of the justified, he explained. The State Department last week accepted $1.8 billion in brand new firearms for Taiwan and filed the package to Congress for a last review. The entry includes two weeks following the U.S. and Taiwan finished the purchase of 66 new version F-16 Block 70 aircraft in Lockheed, also […]