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A Taiwanese minister says that the armed forces will defend all of Taiwan’s people, materials, and resources from any threat. This includes protecting TSMC should a war with China occur.

TSMC has plans to establish a 28nm chip fab in Saxony, Germany, according to Bloomberg sources.

Samsung experienced year-over-year declines for most of its businesses.

A significant fire consumed 300 sq.m (3,230 sq.ft) of an under construction TSMC packaging and testing plant in Zhunan.

TrendForce sees NAND Flash pricing downturn to continue through 2Q23, with no prospect of turnaround until 4Q23.

Nvidia AutoDMP open source GPU accelerated AI chip design software arrives to rapidly optimize chip designs for cost, speed, and power efficiency.

TSMC founder Morris Chang took part in a public discussion today, commenting for the first time that he supported the US Chips Act and efforts to slow Chinese semiconductor developments.

Dell will start to remove Chinese ICs from products starting in 2025, says a new report, moving steadily to cut all Chinese manufacturing from US-sold products by 2027.

Intel has requested an additional $5 billion for its Germany fab as inflation drives the cost of leading-edge fabs even higher.

AMD execs will enjoy substantial bonuses, but its business structure is far less affected by semiconductor manufacturing cycles than Intel's.