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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicSemiconductor Chips

Topic: Semiconductor Chips

South Korea commits to supporting local chip sector amid increasing US-China tension

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with about 60 industry leaders, lawmakers and ministers to discuss how to maintain the country's lead in memory chips.

Major setback for PM Modi’s chipmaking ambitions as firms struggle to find tech partners

Second mega $19.5 bn plan to build chips locally by joint venture of Vedanta-Foxconn also moves at slow pace as their talks to rope in STMicroelectronics as partner are deadlocked

Western sanctions hurting China’s semiconductor goals. Xi must raise the stakes or give up

Advanced chips are often described as the oil of the future. The sanctions by US, Netherlands, and Japan condemn China to be a second-rate power.

Cars have become bigger but that doesn’t justify their ever-increasing prices

Manufacturers have been increasing prices because they can. And they also know that you, as a buyer, can’t do all that much.

Indian military can’t be a silent spectator to global semiconductor boom. See US, China

As China and the United States move to dominate the global semiconductor market, India must go from chip taker to chip maker.

Samsung to invest $3.3 billion in Vietnam for semiconductor parts, amid US-China chip war

Samsung CEO Roh Tae-Moon revealed plans to set up trial production in the Vietnamese province of Thái Nguyên by July 2023.

Vedanta & Taiwan’s Foxconn meet Maharashtra CM Shinde to take forward ‘$22bn semiconductor unit’

Unit is expected to generate around 2 lakh jobs & is likely to come up in Talegaon, Pune due to its industrial infrastructure and supply of skilled manpower, says Maharashtra govt.

China is innovating in semiconductor chips, US sanctions or not. And furling a chip war

China’s push to become self-reliant in semiconductor technology goes back to the Donald Trump administration. But it still hasn't made it.

On Camera

Bihar voter list revision is not anti-democratic—India can’t let illegals influence polls

Since all non-NDA Opposition parties seem united in demanding a cancellation of Bihar’s SIR, it’s safe to assume they fear their own vote bank stands to lose the most.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.