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Chinese chipmakers made record profit in 2025, despite slipping margins
By Luke James published
Premium Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA booked a combined $19 billion in China revenue across their fiscal 2025 reporting periods.

US lawmakers amend new restrictions on Chinese chipmakers — MATCH Act's blanket restrictions removed from select chipmaking tools
By Anton Shilov published
U.S. lawmakers remove countrywide exports ban on cryogenic etching tools from the MATCH Act, yet Chinese companies could barely get them anyway.

U.S. lawmakers aim to ban export of DUV chipmaking and etching tools to leading firms in China
By Anton Shilov published
Chinese chipmakers will lose ability to buy advanced tools for trailing node fabs, if new proposes becomes the law.

IBM and Lam's new partnership paves the way toward sub-1nm logic using High-NA EUV
By Luke James published
Premium Under the new agreement, the focus will shift to validating full process flows for nanosheet and nanostack device architectures and backside power delivery.

IBM and Lam Research team up on High NA EUV dry resist to push chip scaling past 1nm
By Luke James published
The two companies have worked together for more than a decade, with IBM unveiling what it described as the world's first 2nm node chip in 2021 as part of the partnership.

U.S. lawmakers demand sales ban on chipmaking tools to China
By Anton Shilov published
Bipartisan group of lawmakers want the U.S. government to impose export controls on all wafer fab equipment bound to China except those that can be made locally and make allies do the following.

China injects tens of billions of dollars in chipmaking tools, but it's easily more than a decade behind the market leaders — Here's why
By Anton Shilov published
China’s chip industry excels at mature nodes but remains at least a decade behind in advanced lithography.

China's SiCarrier challenges U.S. and EU with full-spectrum of chipmaking equipment
By Anton Shilov published
Huawei-linked Chinese startup has developed a nearly complete suite of semiconductor manufacturing tools to enable fully domestic chip production amid escalating export controls.
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