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Chip-industry stories that cross borders: fabs, equipment makers, AI demand and trade.
- Chips lift Korea's GDP; $63 billion backs Broadcom chips
Korea's economy grew 1% last quarter on chip exports. Banks set up $63 billion for Broadcom chips for Anthropic, and Applied Materials lifts its BESI stake.
- What Do 3nm and 2nm Mean? Chip Process Nodes Explained
Why 3nm and 2nm are generation names, not measurements; who makes chips at each node, from TSMC and Samsung to Intel and Rapidus, and what comes after 2nm.
- US Chip Export Controls on China, Explained
What US controls on AI chips, chipmaking tools and HBM to China cover, how they changed since 2022, what they mean for chipmakers, and the dates ahead.
- Foundry, Fabless and IDM: How Chipmakers Split the Work
Nvidia designs, TSMC manufactures, Micron does both. What fabless, foundry, IDM and OSAT mean, with each label checked against the companies' own filings.
- Who Makes What in Memory: DRAM, NAND and HBM Across Asia and the US
Which memory companies make DRAM, which make NAND flash, which supply HBM and which design controllers or build modules, from their own filings.