Bits&Chips

ASML won a reprieve in Washington as US political infighting over the war with Iran has stalled legislation that could have further restricted the Dutch lithography giant's movement in China. The proposed Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on H

In a few years, nobody will write software. Software as the artifact we fuss over, the thing we hire around, protect, refactor and treat as the crown jewels, is on its way out, Jan Bosch asserts provocatively. Walk into any software company, or any softwa

Researchers at Taiwan's National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and TSMC Corporate Research have tackled a key obstacle for the adoption of transistors based on 2D materials. Through careful engineering of the atomic interface between a molybdenum disulf

By focusing on cost savings, improving the reliability and performance of its systems, it will automatically capture a larger share of the pie. Imagine you run a café and you want to serve the best coffee. Naturally, you also want the best espresso machin

Nokia has agreed to acquire NXP Semiconductors' fab in Chandler, Arizona, intending to convert the RF GaN facility to manufacture InP optical components.

The global semiconductor market generated 702 billion US dollars in revenue during the first half of 2026, more than doubling compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organ

Samsung Electronics is targeting deployment of high-NA EUV lithography in high-volume production at the 1nm/A10 node, a company executive said at the Next-Generation Lithography + Patterning Conference (NGL 2026) in Suwon (via ZDNet). That would put the i

Taiwanese memory maker Nanya Technology is preparing to join the group of chipmakers using EUV lithography, giving ASML another customer for its flagship exposure systems. The company's board of directors has approved an investment of 10.7 billion US doll

Terafab, the joint chipmaking venture by SpaceX and Tesla, may adopt free-electron lasers (FELs) to produce EUV light rather than the laser-produced plasma sources currently employed by ASML. Answering an X post in which a user inferred the presence of a

The Netherlands and the EU will soon have to decide whether safeguarding technological sovereignty calls for the same resolve shown in defending Greenland's territorial sovereignty. "Politicians in the US Congress want the Netherlands to restrict exports