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Taiwanese chip testing firm’s new Singapore facility to create over 300 jobs

Taiwanese chip testing firm KYEC’s facility in Singapore, launched on May 22, includes an over 109,000 sq ft cleanroom.

EU seeks to lift ban on Chinese chips it barred only weeks ago

The European Union's executive arm will propose the exemption for chip manufacturer Yangzhou Yangjie Electronic Technology Co.

Taiwan seeks to detain three in Nvidia chip smuggling crackdown

The US has restricted sales of AI chips made by companies such as Nvidia to China since 2022.

Samsung chip employees to get $432,000 average bonus under strike deal

The tentative deal would allow workers to share up to 12 per cent of operating profit as bonuses.

Nvidia rival AMD invests $12.8b in Taiwan chip industry

AMD said in a statement that it was working with firms in Taiwan and elsewhere on advanced computing components that are essential in AI data centres.

With strike averted, Samsung shares soar but $530,000 bonuses for some raise concern

Employees head to work at Samsung Electronics semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on May 21.

$74.5 billion profit, $102 billion buyback – so why did AI chip giant Nvidia shares slide?

Nvidia's first-quarter profit hit US$58.3 billion (S$74.5 billion), up 211 per cent from a year ago and topping analyst expectations.

AI’s first labour showdown is between the haves and have-mores

Members of the Samsung Electronics labour union demanding the removal of a cap on performance bonuses at a rally outside the company's foundry and semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek.

China will open its market to AI chips from US, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says

Nvidia’s chief executive officer Jensen Huang was a last-minute addition to the delegation of American business leaders for Mr Trump’s high-stakes meetings in Beijing.

Samsung strike? Four scenarios for the chipmaker’s labour dispute

Samsung Electronics’ labour union members at a rally on April 23.

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