A return to profit could ease pressure on SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, who revealed in June plans to shift to "offence mode" amid excitement over advances in AI

Two sources said briefings were expected on Monday, with the announcement on Tuesday, while a former official said the US should be prepared for retaliation by Beijing

SMEE, China’s only potential competitor to the Netherlands' world-leading lithography machine maker ASML, is expected to deliver the country's first 28nm lithography machine

The unprecedented oversupply of commodity chips has lingered since last year, and added to woes of an industry that was battling a Covid-induced shortage until the first half of 2022

Samsung Electronics say a demand recovery is mostly in high-end AI chips and not enough to force a turnaround on planned cuts after a $7bn half-year loss

Passed by an overwhelming majority in the senate, the bill will need the backing of the US House of Representatives and President Joe Biden before it can become law

The world's largest contract chipmaker said last week it was unable to fulfil customer demand driven by the surge in AI services

The world's largest contract chipmaker, which saw Q2 revenue down 13.7% on last year, says the global economic recovery has been weaker than expected

Chinese diplomat Wang said China and the EU should enhance mutual trust, deepen cooperation, and not encourage backpedalling, on 20th anniversary of their strategic partnership

Regulators say the measures will not apply to firms who don't intend to offer their generative AI services to the Chinese public to encourage development of the technology

The 12% slump in outbound shipments was worse than expected in the year-on-year Customs data for June. Imports also contracted by 6.8%.

Patents for small computer chips, developed by a struggling US company, were sold to China two years ago, in a move some say highlights a need to reform the government watchdog CFIUS