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Huawei orchestrates China’s push for homegrown chipmaking tools

Huawei is serving as the coordinator and chief investor behind China's most ambitious effort to develop homegrown lithography equipment, acting as what one analyst called a "project manager" for the country's push to break its dependence on ASML and Western…

SMIC profit more than triples as AI chip demand surges

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, China's largest contract chipmaker, reported on Thursday that second-quarter profit more than tripled from a year earlier, handily beating analyst expectations as demand for AI-related chips continued to surge.

China’s homegrown DUV chip tool sends ASML tumbling

ASML shares fell sharply on Monday after The Information reported that a Shanghai-based, state-backed company has begun limited mass production of homegrown immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines — a first for China that threatens the Dutch firm's remaining access to…

TSMC cuts 28nm output at key fab by over 25% as it pivots to AI chips

TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited has slashed monthly wafer starts at its Fab 15A facility in Central Taiwan Science Park from roughly 200,000 to 150,000 units since early 2026, a reduction exceeding 25%, as the chipmaker accelerates a strategic…

Teardown shows SMIC’s latest chip process matches TSMC’s 7nm-era density

SemiAnalysis released the first public teardown from its new STEEL Lab (Teardown Engineering & Evaluation Lab) over the weekend, delivering a granular technical analysis of Huawei's Kirin 9030 Pro built on SMIC's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation most advanced N+3 process…