U.S. gives Samsung $6.4 billion to build new chip factories in Texas

The subsidy is the latest wave of funding in the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to bring advanced computer chip-making capacity back to the U.S. Read More

Biden Is Giving Samsung $6.4 Billion to Build US Chip Factories

After awarding billions to Intel and TSMC, the White House is also subsidizing Samsung's Texas chip manufacturing plans. Read More

Samsung archrival plans construction of world's largest chip factory — at more than $90 billion, it will take more than 20 years to finish, so one wonders what other exciting ...

The plan was first announced in 2019 but ran into delays due to Covid ... chip exports and bolster semiconductor equipment by the end of June. Creating the world’s largest chip factory is ... Read More

US awards Samsung $6.4 billion in grants to boost Texas chip output

The Biden administration will award up to $6.4 billion in grants to South Korea's Samsung to expand its chip production in central Texas as part of a broader effort to boost U.S. chipmaking, the ... Read More

Samsung to invest $24 billion in new chip factory in the US

Samsung plans to construct one more semiconductor chip manufacturing factory in the US, its third in the country. Read More

Taiwan Earthquake Tests Readiness of World’s Chip-Making Hub

The world’s most important semiconductor-manufacturing hub is also one of the world’s biggest earthquake hot spots, and it was put to the test Wednesday after a powerful quake.Taiwan Semiconductor ... Read More

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The Israeli war cabinet met again on Monday to discuss the strike, with some hawkish members of the prime minister’s government calling for a swift and forceful retaliation. By Cassandra ... Read More

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This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small ... Ayana Mathis finds unexpected hope in novels of crisis by Ling Ma, Jenny Offill and Jesmyn Ward. Read More

90% of some of the world's traditional wine regions could be gone in decades. It's part of a larger problem.

Some of the world's traditional wine regions ... as the conditions necessary to produce their grapes grow more unfruitful due to climate change. By the end of the century — just 76 years ... Read More

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A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most sophisticated financial system. By Bhadra Sharma, Alex Travelli and Uma Bista As cases ... Read More