The world's second-biggest memory chipmaker said on Wednesday its operating profit rose 116% to 2.9 trillion won ($2.3 billion) in the January-March quarter

Chen Yan at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and his colleagues found that a laser aimed at the cars could cause the vehicles’ software to malfunction

Operations at the plants located in Dianfa and Fuhong in northern Kunshan have been halted since last Wednesday

Some Taiwanese firms making chip and electronic components in the eastern Chinese city of Kunshan said deliveries would be postponed until next month

The company, which also has Apple and Qualcomm as customers, previously said it expected strong growth to accelerate in coming years

China on Wednesday denounced Taiwan's efforts to prevent Chinese companies from poaching talent and stealing chip secrets as a provocative "smear"

The data added to concerns that Japanese firms are holding off on investments amid a profit squeeze from rising energy and raw materials costs

The plant in Zwijndrecht, which closed due to tightened environmental regulations, accounts for 80% of global total semiconductor coolant output

The carmaker's chief financial officer, Arno Antlitz, said bottlenecks would be likely to begin to ease towards the end of this year

US fabrication of the chips would require not only tremendous up-front costs, but possibly a steady stream of government assistance in perpetuity

New probes come on top of seven prosecutions since the start of last year and include 27 companies that have either been raided or whose owners have been summoned for questioning

The new strategy includes plans to establish four quantum research centres across the country, and could be finalised this month