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​A microchip and the Taiwanese flag in an illustration.
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TSMC set to get its CHIPS money

The Biden administration finalized an agreement to pay Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company more than $11 billion in combined grants and loans meant to support the Taiwanese company’s chipmaking plans to build manufacturing facilities in the United States.

Art made by humanoid robot sells for $1 million at auction.
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Hard Numbers: Meet the robot painter, Saudi money, Japan’s billions, the CHIPS Act wrap-up, Where’s the AI-generated beef?

Joe Biden starts to campaign on AI
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Joe Biden starts to campaign on AI

On May 8, Joe Biden spoke at Gateway Technical College in Racine, Wisconsin. The president was bragging.

​US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announces a major grant at the Samsung semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, on Monday, April 15, 2024.
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Samsung hands Biden another chip win

The Biden administration is busy courting global semiconductor manufacturers to build stateside, recently handing billions to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to expand its chip fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona.

Semiconductor chips on a circuit board.
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Crunch time for chipmakers

The Biden administration wants to supercharge US chip manufacturing, which is why the 2022 CHIPS Act allotted $280 billion for the domestic chipmaking sector. But Republicans in Congress just halted a key provision of the administration’s plan.

Illustration of chess pieces representing the US, the Netherlands, Japan, and China on a chessboard made of semiconductors
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Biden enlists Japan & Netherlands to fight US-China chips war

The Dutch and the Japanese supporting US export controls on advanced chipmaking machines makes it harder for China to access the tech.

a researcher wearing cleanroom suit displaying a wafer in the lab of Shanghai Microsemi Semiconductor Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China.
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Who’s winning the war over chips?

When it comes to semiconductor production, there’s just one superpower: Taiwan. The self-governing island produces more than two-thirds of the world’s chips, and almost all of the advanced ones.