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| iRobot Files for Bankruptcy |
12/16/2025 |
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:What Will Happen to Your Roomba Robot Vacuum?Rising competition and reciprocal tariffs had reduced the company's profits,
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| TSMC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm |
12/15/2025 |
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"Thanks to the strong support from the Japan Central, prefectural, and local governments, our first specialty fab in Kumamoto has already started volume production in late 2024 with very good yield,” said Wei. “The construction of our second fab has begun, and the ramp schedule will be based on our customers’ needs and market conditions.”
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| China considers $70B injection for chip industry |
12/15/2025 |
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China mulls $70 billion domestic chip fabrication injection, would be largest of any government semiconductor investment — Huawei and Cambricon among candidates in push to compete with Nvidia, other U.S. firms.
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| Nvidia weighs boosting H200 chip output |
12/15/2025 |
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Nvidia is considering expanding production of its H200 AI chips after orders from Chinese companies, including ByteDance and Alibaba, exceeded current output,
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| TSMC considers 4nm chips at Japan fab |
12/12/2025 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering upgrading its second facility in Kumamoto, Japan, to produce chips using 4-nanometer technology, according to reports. This move could delay construction but enable more advanced chips for customers in Japan. The plant was initially set to use 6-nanometer and 7-nanometer technology, but TSMC informed suppliers that it would not require new tools in Japan throughout next year, indicating a possible pause in construction.
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| South Korea to consider setting up $3.1 bln foundry to grow local chip sector |
12/11/2025 |
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President Lee Jae Myung presided over a meeting on Wednesday attended by executives from chipmakers, including Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), opens new tab and SK Hynix (000660.KS), opens new tab, as well as policymakers and experts, to lay out plans to maintain the country's lead in memory chips, strengthen the foundry business and expand fabless chip design in the artificial intelligence era.
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| U.S. data center power demand could reach 106 GW by 2035 |
12/9/2025 |
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BloombergNEF’s latest forecast is 36% higher than its previous prediction, released in April. The jump is due in part to the higher average size of the 150 significant U.S. data center projects announced in the past year, over a quarter of which are larger than 500 megawatts, BNEF said.
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