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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company founder Morris Chang appears to have had a complete change of mind about setting up new chip units in the US, announcing on Monday that the company would manufacture 3nm semiconductors at a new factory in Arizona.

Apple appears to have given up some of its profit margin due to competition from rivals judging from a teardown of the top-end iPhone 13 Max Pro, the Japanese news agency Nikkei says, following an exercise it undertook along with the Financial Times.

The world's biggest contract chip manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, has shifted 1000 engineers to its facilities in Tainan's Southern Taiwan Science Park to meet the massive demand for its 5nm chips.

ANALYSIS In announcing the departure of Bob Swan as chief executive, Intel has made sure to mention that the announcement has nothing to do with either its financial performance in 2020 or its failure to introduce 7nm CPUs on time.

ANALYSIS Speculation that South Korean conglomerate Samsung Electronics would come to the aid of beleaguered Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies and help it to obtain semiconductors for its business has been more or less squashed after Samsung was given a massive deal by Verizon.

Intel will be forced to delay the introduction of 7nm CPUs, with the company telling investors on Friday it would have to push back the schedule for producing the most advanced semiconductors by six months as it has no economically viable way to produce them at the moment.