The journey of a chip starts with ordinary quartz-rich sand that contains silicon dioxide. It's heated and refined into pure ...

U.S.-based chipmakers hardly use tools made in China, but they certainly use lithography, etching, and deposition equipment produced in the EU, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Taiwan government says it has detained three employees on suspicion they obtained the Taiwanese chip giant’s “core technology ...

So far, Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice hasn’t provided any evidence that the incidents are part of a wider and more organized campaign against the country’s chip sector.