Global Semiconductor Issues
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Essays and profiles on efforts by China and other countries to build cutting edge semiconductors
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Tsinghua Unigroup’s Failed Attempts to Buy America’s Semiconductor Tech
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Hongxin: China’s Billion Dollar Semiconductor Failure
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Should TSMC Have Built a Foundry on the Mainland? A Case Study
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What Happened to Singapore's TSMC?
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SMIC, Explained: China’s Semiconductor Crown Jewel
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When TSMC Sued SMIC and Won
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ASML: TSMC's Critical Supplier, Explained
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How Hong Kong Lost the Lead in Semiconductors
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MediaTek, Explained: Taiwan’s Fabless Semiconductor Giant
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Looking Back At Broadcom Trying to Buy Qualcomm
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HiSilicon, Explained: China's Leading Fabless Semiconductor Maker
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The Coming Semiconductor Bust
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How TSMC Builds a $19 Billion Fab
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China’s Next Semiconductor Giant: Yangtze Memory
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How AMD Left GlobalFoundries for TSMC
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How China Won Solar (& Why Germany Lost)
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How ASML Builds a $150 Million EUV Machine
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ARM Fired ARM China’s CEO But He Won’t Go: A Breakdown
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Can Malaysia’s Semiconductor Industry Compete?
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Tokyo Electron: Japan’s Biggest Semiconductor Equipment Maker
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The US Military's Semiconductor Buying Problem
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BOE Technology: Apple’s Next OLED Supplier?
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The TSMC First Half 2021 Mega-Review
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The ASML First Half 2021 Mega-Review
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China's Making x86 Processors, But Does It Matter?
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Designing Billions of Circuits with Code
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Carl Zeiss, Explained: Germany’s Semiconductor Optics Master
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The Big Semiconductor Water Problem
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The Company Behind Apple's 10,000 Mini-LED Display
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India's Semiconductor Failure
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Northeast England's Semiconductor Nightmare
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How ASML Won Lithography (& Why Japan Lost)
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Thailand’s Hard Drive Industry Problem
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The Semiconductor Health and Cancer Problem
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How Japan Won Lithography (& Why America Lost)
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China’s ASML is Years and Years Behind
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The Growing Semiconductor Design Problem
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How Taiwan Created TSMC
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How Apple Changed TSMC
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How TSMC Came to Taiwan's South
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TSMC is more than just Taiwan
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Google’s Chip Designing AI
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India's Semiconductor Design Challenge
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The Big Automotive Semiconductor Problem
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The Promise of Open Source Semiconductor Design Tools
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What ASML Has Next After EUV
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Intel in Israel: A Semiconductor Success
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The Amazing, Humble Silicon Wafer
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How Nvidia Won AI
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How VLSI Revolutionized Semiconductor Design
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Why Russia Can’t Replace TSMC
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The Superior Economics of TSMC’s Giga-Fabs
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The Semiconductor Neon Shortage
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The Semiconductor Security War
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Can You Do 7nm Chips Without EUV?
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Why AMD's Chiplets Work
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The Semiconductor Bust. Still Coming?
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MEMS: The Second Silicon Revolution?
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How TSMC Keeps Getting Better
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How Japan Learned Semiconductors
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Where The Real Chip Shortage Is
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Silicon Photonics: The Next Silicon Revolution?
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How America Won Back Semiconductors from Japan
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Why the Soviet Computer Failed
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The Coming AI Chip Boom
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Silicon Carbide: A Power Electronics Revolution
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How the Integrated Circuit Took Us to the Moon
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China's 7nm Chips: SMIC N+2
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The 300mm Silicon Wafer Transition
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Why 157nm Lithography Failed
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imec: The Semiconductor Watering Hole
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Will Young Americans Want to Work in Semiconductor Manufacturing?
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The Flawed Assumptions Behind China’s Big Semiconductor Fund
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TSMC's Renegade Genius
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Why Every 3nm Process Node is Different
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Semiconductor Immersion Lithography
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The History of the FPGA: The Ultimate Flex
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The History of the Semiconductor Photomask
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The Hard Tradeoffs of Edge AI Hardware
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EUV’s Most Difficult Challenge
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AI’s Hardware Problem
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Is America Stealing TSMC?
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Taiwan’s Other Semiconductor Giant
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The Gallium Nitride Revolutions
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The 3-D Transistor Transition
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How Optical MEMS Won an Oscar
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How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
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Japan’s EUV Failure
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The Fake Chip Scourge
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Visiting the Morris Chang & Chris Miller Semiconductor Forum
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The Chips That See: Rise of the Image Sensor
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Why Moore’s Law Matters
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Stacking Dies For Performance and Profit
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Intel & AMD: The First 30 Years
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Why Europe Lost Semiconductors
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Europe’s Lost Decades in Semiconductors
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“The Decision of the Century”: Choosing EUV Lithography
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A Semiconductor Rare Earths Problem?
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China's Gallium & Germanium Export Controls
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The Fast and Furious Rise of Korean Semiconductors
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China's 7nm Semiconductor Breakthrough
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A German Semiconductor Debacle
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A Deep Dive Into Canon’s Nanoimprint Lithography
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The End of American Lithography
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The Early Years at TSMC
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Did Sematech Save the American Semiconductor Industry?
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Can SRAM Keep Shrinking?
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Why Synopsys Bought Ansys (For $35 Billion)
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The Gate-All-Around Transistor is Coming
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Why is TSMC Doing Better in Japan?
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The iPhone Forever Changed the RF Filter
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Intel’s Next Breakthrough: Backside Power Delivery
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What’s Next For ASML?
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The Transistor That Won the World
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How China Built a Semiconductor Industry
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The Semiconductor Design Software Duopoly: Cadence & Synopsys
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Why GlobalFoundries Couldn’t Give Abu Dhabi a Semiconductor Fab
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Why Wafer Bonding is the Future of Semiconductors
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Serbia's Departed Semiconductor Giant
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Can America’s Tech Giants Get Together & Start a Chipmaker?
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Stacking Dies on Glass Panels
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The End of Dennard Scaling
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Japan’s Semiconductor Photoresist Monopoly
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Why Was Japan So "Good" at Semiconductors?
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China’s “New” EUV Light Source
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How Moore’s Law Revolutionized RF-CMOS
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How Semiconductor Yields Vastly Improved
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EUV Photoresists: The Next Generation?
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China's Breakout DRAM Beast
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Intel Should Second-Source Nvidia
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