TSMC is weighing a Texas campus of up to six $20 billion fabs that reportedly hinges on a 35% CHIPS Act tax credit expiring at the end of 2026. At $7 billion a fab, the credit lets Congress set about a third of the price before TSMC's board has voted.
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Counterpoint puts TSMC at 73% of second-quarter foundry revenue and Samsung Foundry at 5.9%. Because that share is weighted by leading-edge prices, it measures the scarcity of advanced capacity as much as the volume of it.
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Lip-Bu Tan told a Splunk keynote in Denver that relying on one Taiwan-based company for 95% of AI chip production is very risky. The one 14A commitment he can point to, Terafab, ships its first product in mid-2028.
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Zhipu closed about $5 billion two months after raising $4 billion in a July share sale. The largest sum in the same tally is the $29.6 billion that ByteDance borrowed from roughly 30 banks at home and abroad.
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Positron says the money covers a TSMC N3P tapeout by the end of 2026, a new 2MW engineering data center and a production ramp in the second half of 2027. The larger of the round's two tranches is described as up to $500 million.
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The Reno startup says its Asimov ASIC carries 288 GB of on-package LPDDR5X and realizes more than 90% of its memory bandwidth. Both figures come from the company, and no independent benchmark accompanies them.
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Seoul Economic Daily calls glass substrates the next packaging battleground. The committed dollars it names belong to Intel; the only Korean number in the story is a share price.
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The tool tops out well short of DUV resolution. Its argument is throughput, 600 mm substrates and digital pattern correction while CoWoS supply stays tight.
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Ajinomoto has reportedly told mainland customers it will cut supply of high-end packaging film by 30 percent. It holds about 95 percent of that market; China supplies under 5 percent of its own.
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- Hype gap+22
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- Confidence48