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Corp( SMIC) have built an advanced 7-nanometer( nm) processor to power its latest smartphone

KUALA LUMPUR: Dagang Nexchange Bhd( DNeX) and Big Innovation Holdings Limited( BIH), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd( Foxconn), plan to set up a joint venture company to build and operate a new 12-inch wafer fabrication plant in Malaysia. DNeX, in a statement, said it had inked a memorandum of understanding( MoU) to collaborate on establishing and operating the semiconductor fabrication facility in the country. Under the MoU, DNeX and BIH will work together to deci

PETALING JAYA: Dagang Nexchange Bhd( Dnex) is teaming up with Taiwanese semiconductor giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, better known as Foxconn, to build and operate a wafer fabrication plant in Malaysia.In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, Dnex said it has signed a memorandum of understanding( MoU) with a unit of Foxconn, Big Innovation Holdings Ltd( BIH), with the intent to set up a joint-venture company to build and operate the 12-inch wafer fabrication plant. The facility is targeted to p

This file photo shows a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan.... The announcement came days after a news report that the Japanese government is considering financial support for the world's largest contract chipmaker to build a chip-making factory, potentially with Sony Group Corp., in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto.... While Wei did not disclose where in Japan the plant will be built, he said the company will receive assistance from the Japanese gover

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration still has not decided whether to block more sales of U.S. technology to Chinese chipmaker SMIC, but raised the possibility of discussing with allies further restrictions on selling chip-making equipment to China, sources familiar with a Thursday meeting on the topic said. Officials at the meeting of deputies from various U.S. agencies talked about a proposal to toughen sales to SMIC and other chipmakers in China, the sources said.... The officials appeared t

Listen 8 min Share Comment on this story Comment As Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was visiting China earlier this week, a sea-green Chinese smartphone was quietly launched online.It was no normal gadget.... Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter.... Those sanctions were first imposed by the Trump administration and continued under President Biden. Advertisement The timing of the phone announcement on Monday, while Raimondo was in Beijing, appeared to be a show of defiance....

Listen 8 min Share Comment on this story Comment As Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was visiting China earlier this week, a sea-green Chinese smartphone was quietly launched online.It was no normal gadget.... Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter.... Those sanctions were first imposed by the Trump administration and continued under President Biden. Advertisement The timing of the phone announcement on Monday, while Raimondo was in Beijing, appeared to be a show of defiance....

LAST year, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co( TSMC) stamped its mark on the global economy with record sales and unrivalled leadership over the world’s most advanced chips.... — BloombergTim Culpan is a technology columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.... The views expressed here are the writer’s own....

If it succeeds, business and political leaders warn that might slow down innovation, disrupt global trade and make the world poorer.“ Self-reliance is the foundation for the Chinese nation, ” President Xi Jinping said in a speech released in March.... Smartphone makers who have a single dominant global operating system and two network standards might need to make unique versions for different markets.... Alibaba's Yitian 710 requires precision no Chinese foundry can achieve....