Processor will shut down if your toner runs low

Printer maker Canon is having a go at making cheap chip-making machines as early as this year, as the Japanese firm best known for its snappers and printers tries to nick some business from the longtime industry leader ASML.

Undercutting the Dutch

Canon plans to price its new chipmaking gear at a fraction of the cost of ASML Holding NV's best lithography machines.

Do the right  thing

Blacklisted Yangtze Memory Technologies Co has asked its suppliers to buy back the chips and equipment it is forbidden to use.

Wants to set the Chinese back ten years

The US government is working on even tighter restrictions to set Chinese chipmakers back nearly a decade.

Now the Dutch are surrendering to US 

The Dutch government confirmed for the first time it will impose new export controls on microchips manufacturing equipment on China.

Does not mean that it is good to go

Intel has completed development of its Intel 18A (1.8nm-class) and Intel 20A (2nm-class) fabrication processes for its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) division, Tom's Hardware says.

China no longer depends on Dutch or US tech

Huawei is now able to create chips using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) which means that it finally has a foot in the door of serious chip development.

It makes no sense and only benefits US companies

Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML CEO Peter Wennink has waded into the US’s moves to get the Netherlands to adopt new rules restricting exports to China make sense.

It looks like Trump’s tech war made things worse

China's chip industry is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, after US sanctions on local champions from Huawei to Hikvision spurred appetite for home-grown components.

You nicked our tech

ASML has pressed IP theft allegations against two firms created by 'flagbearer' for China's semiconductor industry Dongfang Jingyuan Electron.