U.S. and Taiwan reach deal lowering tariffs to 15% and boosting financing for U.S. semiconductor operations

Washington — The U.S. and Taiwan have agreed to a deal that would lower tariffs on goods from Taiwan to no more than 15%, and ...
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Taiwan commits $250B to US semiconductor chip plants in exchange for 5% tariff relief

In return, the United States will cap “reciprocal” tariffs on Taiwan at 15%, down from 20 percent. Commerce Secretary Howard ...
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Top-ranked semiconductor ETFs to buy as Taiwan-US agree on $500B chip deal

On Jan. 15, 2026, the global technology landscape witnessed a strategic pivot with the United States and Taiwan having ...
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MIT's chip stacking breakthrough could cut energy use in power-hungry AI processes

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...
Nanowerk

Transistors repurposed as microchip 'clock' address supply chain weakness

(Nanowerk News) Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a “clock,” to time the operation ...

Nvidia debuts Rubin chip with 336B transistors and 50 petaflops of AI performance

The GPU made its debut at CES alongside five other data center chips. Customers can deploy them together in a rack called the Vera Rubin NVL72 that Nvidia says ships with 220 trillion transistors, ...
VietNamNet

Vietnam launches first semiconductor chip manufacturing plant

Party General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 16 attended the ground-breaking ceremony of ...
The Manila Times

Viettel Breaks Ground on Vietnam's First Semiconductor Chip Fabrication Plant

Viettel Group has officially broken ground on the construction of Vietnam's first semiconductor chip fabrication plant. The ...
Purdue University

Transistors repurposed as microchip ‘clock’ address supply chain weakness

A method of repurposing existing techniques to produce a microprocessor timing device in a standard chip fab plant could address supply chain and security weak points. (Photo courtesy of Second Bay ...
Purdue University

Transistors repurposed as microchip ‘clock’ address supply chain weakness

Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a “clock,” to time the operation of those ...
Science Daily

Transistors repurposed as microchip 'clock' address supply chain weakness

A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...