The board of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC this week voted to invest €3.5bn in a factory in the east German city of Dresden. It said this investment would probably rise to…

Germany’s biggest chip maker Infineon Technologies will invest €5bn over five years in building the world’s biggest 200-millimetre silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor plant in Kulim, Malaysia. SiC is used to…

Chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will invest $2.9bn in a packaging facility in northern Taiwan, Reuters reports. “Packaging” in this context means placing a number of chips in…

Bechtel has opened a new office in Arizona to tap into the booming semiconductor, batteries, and battery materials markets. The 8,000-sq-ft office in Chandler, near Phoenix, opened 27 June at…

The construction arm of Malaysian conglomerate IJM Corporation has won two contracts worth US$94m in the Malaysian state of Penang. One is a $76m contract from ASE Electronics, the Malaysian…