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TSMC to Build Chip Fab in Japan

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After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The plant will use 22- and 28-nanometer line processing," said Tadahiro Kuroda , Director of Systems Design Lab (d.lab) at the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. "So China trade war erupted. In May, Gina Raimondo, the U.S.

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

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Yuh-Jier Mii started on the ground floor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. He shares the award with his colleague Cliff Hou , TSMC’s senior vice president of technology development and corporate research. Growing up in Taiwan, the environment encouraged people to become scientists or engineers.”.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. This scale model of a floating wind-turbine platform is one of 10 new designs being tested at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility. Big corporate players are taking up the multirotor and downwind designs.

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