Japan's plan to revitalize its chip industry has been boosted by the arrival of TSMC, the world's top chipmaker, and eight other Taiwanese chip firms over the past two years

Nikkei share index rose by 2% to an all-time peak on Thursday, thanks to cheap valuations and corporate reforms that have lured foreign money looking for alternatives to China's battered markets

Local governments in Shanghai and Anhui will fund a variety of semiconductor-related projects this year — ranging from the development of DRAM chips to building facilities for chipmaking and its tools

Revelations about the amount of power and water needed for computers that power artificial intelligence have led to concern about AI's environmental impacts

US indictment seeks the arrest of two Russian cyber criminals after Britain's National Crime Agency infiltrated the gang's systems, stole their data, and took down Lockbit's site on the dark web

ASML tools are used to make advanced semiconductors that can go into "high-value weapons systems and weapons of mass destruction,” a top Dutch official said

The failure of a Chinese rocket launch in April 2020 gave Elon Musk's SpaceX the opportunity to carry satellites for the Indonesian government

Researchers say Chinese propaganda "has increasingly sought to stoke existing US divisions in the same way Russia has"

The deal comes at a time when OpenAI chief Sam Altman is seeking between $5-7 trillion for an AI chip venture in a bid to bolster global chipmaking capacity

US-listed shares of the chip designer, seen as benefitting from investors' hunt for the "next Nvidia", have surged more than 95% in just the last seven trading sessions alone

"If you just assume that computers never get any faster, you might come to the conclusion we need 14 different planets and three different galaxies and you know four more Suns to fuel all this."

Japan's ruling party's AI project team is planning to draft preliminary rules, including penal regulations, for foundation model developers such as OpenAI