By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is turning up the heat on China’s top sanctioned chipmaker by cutting off its most advanced factory from more American imports after it produced a sophisticated chip for Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro phone, three people familiar with the matter said. Late last year, the […]
China’s imports of critical chip-making lithography systems from the Netherlands surged 1,050 per cent by value in November, in a sign that domestic semiconductor firms are not yet cut off from receiving orders on certain advanced equipment in the wake of tightened US export rules. China imported 16 of the Dutch projection systems valued at […]
In the high-dollar, high-tech world of chipmaking, $35 million is a pittance. But the Biden administration’s first CHIPS Act grant, to BAE Systems’ semiconductor plant in Nashua, New Hampshire, could still bring significant changes for the city of 91,000 people. “We have a really great workforce right now that’s underemployed,” said Liz Hannum, Nashua’s economic […]