Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and ASML Holding have born the brunt of a broader market selloff, weighed down by both US tariff threats and doubts over future artificial intelligence demand.

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has wielded tariffs as a tool to disrupt global trade. On April 9, Taiwan's ...

Intel Corp shares on Thursday gained on a report that the company has tentatively agreed to a joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), a sign the beleaguered US chipmaker ...

The new entity would later invest in research and development within the U.S, and potentially compete with Taiwan ...

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Singapore—a major chip manufacturing hub—has in recent years been attracting new investments from global semiconductor companies.

Separately, UMC said it has no merger-and-acquisition deals on the table at the moment, dismissing a report from online news site Nikkei Asia that the company is restarting a merger assessment with US ...

NEW YORK – GlobalFoundries, which has a big manufacturing base in Singapore, is exploring a potential merger with Taiwan’s second-largest chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC), people ...

If realised, the combined entity would establish a larger, US-based company with production capabilities spanning Asia, the US and Europe.

It has been reported that Taiwan's UMC and the U.S.'s GlobalFoundries, the 4th and 5th largest companies in the global foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing) market, are pursuing a merger.