China warns Dutch that ASML ban will cause serious problems
Ambassador warned
Trade relations between China and the Netherlands would be damaged if Dutch semiconductor equipment supplier ASML is not allowed to ship its newest machines to China, Beijing’s ambassador to the Netherlands warned.
Chipmakers suffering during trade war
No second half recovery this year
US chipmaker Broadcom warned a US-China trade conflict and export restrictions on Huawei were causing a worldwide slowdown in demand for chips.
ASML says Samsung not involved in IP theft
Media made the wrong assumption
ASML denied any involvement by its top client Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in an intellectual property theft case between the Dutch chip equipment maker and a rival.
ASML plays down corporate theft
What was stolen was not a lithography blueprint
Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML admitted that a US software subsidiary was the victim of corporate theft several years ago, but denied that the information stolen was for a lithography machine.
TSMC sees profits fall
As an expected trade war looms
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a 0.9 percent fall in third quarter net profits.
Intel reduces stake in ASML
Just three percent
Chipzilla has reduced its stake in supplier ASML to just below three percent.
ASML buys HMI
$3.1 billion deal is shake up of the chipmaking gear makers
Chipmaking equipment firm ASML has bought the chip screening company Hermes Microvision (HMI) for $3.1 billion.
ASML starts shipping EUV test machines
Could be used by 2018
Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is working and could be used in Moore Law saving high-volume chip manufacturing as early as 2018.
ASML profits bode well for chip industry
$6.44 billion in sales
Dutch outfit ASML Holding, the world's second largest maker of semiconductor production equipment has managed to flog more than $6.44 billion worth of gear.
ASML will flog 15 EUV machines to mysterious "US customer"
Yeah it is probably Intel
ASML, Europe's largest supplier to computer chip makers, will sell 15 of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) chip etching systems to a "single U.S. customer" who is probably Intel.