The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.

Washington — The U.S. and Taiwan have agreed to a deal that would lower tariffs on goods from Taiwan to no more than 15%, and boost Taiwanese semiconductor companies' financing for U.S. operations by half a trillion dollars, the Trump administration announced Thursday.

Federal, state and local officials held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for Micron's $100 billion semiconductor chip fabrication plant near Syracuse.

South Korea announced that it will continue to monitor U.S. AI chip tariffs and evaluate the industry's impacts.

Party General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 16 attended the ground-breaking ceremony of Vietnam’s first semiconductor chip manufacturing plant.

The U.S. signed a trade deal with Taiwan to revitalize its semiconductor sector through investment, credit guarantees and trade incentives.

TSMC makes the most advanced semiconductors in the world. They are the tiny electronic “brains” that power most modern electronics.

The implantation process alters the electrical properties of specific regions in the wafer, and the higher the energy of the ion beam, the deeper the ions penetrate the silicon layers, creating the internal structures crucial to the chips such as transistors and diodes.

Tekscend Photomask Round Rock Inc. is expanding its production capacity at its manufacturing facility in Round Rock. It received a $15.2 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) grant as an incentive. The company claims it’s making a $223 million capital investment in the expansion, which is expected to create an additionall 50 jobs.