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The move is an effort to bolster ASML's relations with customers like Samsung and SK Hynix in the face of new US chip sanctions against China
FBI director Christopher Wray told lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday the Chinese government could harness the video-sharing app to influence users or control their devices.
Taiwan, home to the world's largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, plays an outsized role in providing chips used in everything from cars to fighter jets
According to its IPO prospectus, the chip unit listing aimed to raise $281 million to fund projects and replenish capital
Tencent cut jobs earlier this year too, alongside the likes of Alibaba, as Beijing’s crackdowns and the economic slowdown take their toll
FTX founder and former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried, said he expanded his business too fast and failed to notice signs of trouble at the exchange
TSMC shares jumped after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed in a filing that it owns about 60.1 million American depositary shares of the Taiwanese chipmaker
The average selling price jumped 15% year-over-year, and 6% from the previous quarter, to a record $226, market research firm IDC said
"We do need some regulations. We do need to do this properly. We do need to do this in a stable way," Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said
TikTok is on track to generate close to $10 billion in ad revenue this year, eclipsing the likes of Twitter and Snapchat, NYT said
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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