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The US has announced funding of US$6.6 billion to help Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductors build fabs in Arizona.

China's biggest semiconductor manufacturer will be able to produce 5nm chips this year despite efforts by the US to nobble the country's chip industry, a report claims.

The world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductors has been hit by a further delay to a planned US$40 billion (A$60.85 billion) factory in Arizona, with the plant now due to come on stream only in 2027 or 2028.

The Semiconductor Industry Association, an American lobby group for the sector, has leaked claims that Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is trying to get around US sanctions by acquiring chip factories and also constructing them.

In what is a major blow to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspirations to make India a force in the semiconductor space, Taiwanese giant Foxconn has pulled out of a deal with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta.

China has hit back at the US and its allies over their moves to restrict Beijing's chip-making ambitions, placing curbs on exports of gallium and germanium.

Existing restrictions on AI chip sales by US corporations to China will be further tightened, the Wall Street Journal reports, claiming there are rising concerns over the technology being sold to US rivals.

Global semiconductor revenue will fall 3.6% year-on-year in 2023, the technology analyst firm Gartner has forecast, adding that the 2022 market would be up by 4% with revenue rising to US$618 billion (A$929 billion).

A bifurcation of the global semiconductor industry will be expensive and risky, and pose threats to quality and reliability as well, the rating agency S&P Global Ratings says in a research note issued earlier this month, adding that China and other Asia-Pacific producers are likely to suffer more.

The shortage of semiconductors in the US will persist for at least the next two years, the chief executive of Intel says, as the company reported 13% less revenue from PCs for the first three months of 2022.

China's biggest memory manufacturer is claimed to have supplied telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies with chips, violating American export controls.

The existing global shortage of semiconductors is expected to last through this year and into the second quarter of the next, the technology analyst firm Gartner has said, adding that normal levels of supply would resume after that.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei technologies has again managed to record an annual profit despite the US sanctions it faces, with the company announcing a 64.6 billion yuan (A$12.98 billion) profit for 2020, an increase of 3.2% year-on-year. Revenue was 891.4 billion yuan, an increase of 3.8% on the previous year.

Chip designer Arm has released details of its new Armv9 architecture, which it says "will form the leading edge of the next 300 billion Arm-based chips".

The Dutch company ASML, the biggest manufacturer of lithography equipment for making semiconductors, has extended a deal with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China's biggest chip maker, according to a short statement issued on Wednesday.

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.

The new version of the hardware hack story floated by Bloomberg illustrates one thing: the English language is a glorious tool for obfuscating things and making the meretricious appear like the magnificent.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is making a bid to sell its Honor smartphone unit which markets cheaper devices compared to the flagship ones that are put out under the Huawei brand.

The US is thinking of imposing restrictions on China's major semiconductor manufacturer, based on a report that says Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation is helping Beijing's defence establishment.

The US obsession with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies may be well-intentioned, but could end up seriously harming the country's economy and national security, a senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, says, in an article written as a brief for the Centre and sent to subscribers of The China Wire website in its weekly email titled "What we're reading this week".