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Apple unveils trio of more powerful chips at ‘scary fast’ product launch

Switch to new M3 chips marks the first time Apple has moved to the 3-nanometer technology

Daniel Murray Analysis: Has the corporate tax bonanza come to an end?

By the end of this year, annual corporate tax revenues are expected to have grown six-fold in the space of a decade, from around €4 billion in 2013 to €24 billion in 2023

Intel walks away from acquisition of Israel’s Tower Semiconductor

Deadline for completing $5.4 billion deal was August 15 at midnight in California

State expects ‘substantial recovery’ in microchip sales after collapse in exports

Semiconductor exports have fallen by 42 per cent in the first five months of this year

Microchip trade collapse leaves industry counting cost

Irish exports of microchips fell by 42 per cent in the first five months of this year, but this is in the context of unprecedented growth in the past seven years

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Editorial: Ireland must be alert to risks as microchips become pawn between China and the west

Microchips are now one of our largest exports, with a value of €10.7bn last year, but this brings vulnerabilities to our economic security

Daniel Murray: Record exports to China could leave chips stacked against Ireland

Last year, 63 per cent of the country’s trade to the superpower was made up of microchips leaving it exposed to a shock if a trade war were to break out

Intel boss backs calls for Ireland to double size of semiconductor industry by 2030

New paper calls on the government to prioritise a national chips strategy

Germany sets aside €20bn state-aid package to win semiconductor investments

The EU’s largest economy is planning multibillion-euro subsidy packages for global companies like Intel and TSMC

Stocks dip at US microchip manufacturer after China claims security risk

Beijing warned operators of key infrastructure against buying the company’s goods, saying it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron products sold in the country

Western semiconductor manufacturing will come at ‘higher cost’ to consumers

Kurt Sievers, head of one of the world’s largest microchip companies, said the “de-coupling” of manufacturing to the EU and US will increase cost of consumer goods even if it creates more local microchip manufacturing capacity

Bargaining chips: How the semiconductor industry has emerged as an industrial battleground

Despite US manufacturers recently securing the $280 billion Chips Act, Intel is preparing to slash spending and cut tens of thousands of jobs. Why is the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer making such a dramatic U-turn, and what could it mean for Ireland?

Microchip crisis: Calling in all the chips

The full impact of the global microchip shortage has still to be worked out, but its effects could change supply chains worldwide

Vincent Boland: The chips are down and the whole world is facing trouble

The microchip has changed the world since its invention in the 1950s. But after Covid caused global demand to plunge, chip manufacturers are now finding it hard to keep up with a sharp spike in orders as the world starts to emerge from the virus

The chips are up: How Irish companies are cashing in on the microchip rush

Amid a global shortage of microchips, the EU and China are seeking to wrestle back control of their supply chains. And as the silicon wafers are now fundamental to so many industries, Ireland stands to benefit from what has quietly become its fourth-largest export

Microchip exports increase 500 per cent in five years

Semiconductors, which account for 60 per cent of our trade with China, have now become Ireland’s fourth largest goods export