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In the 1980s, American policymakers saw Japanese chip makers as their biggest threat. With a smile on her face, American Congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley took turns with fellow lawmakers to swing sledgehammers and smash a Toshiba stereo on the grounds of the Capitol. “Treachery by any other name is still treachery,” Bentley told the assembled journalists. “But if it had another name, it would be Toshiba.” The incident occurred in July 1987, when the Japanese electronics giant faced...

Is chip shortage over? Wall Street Journal article published an article which stated; “The world is now awash in chips” Claims that chipmakers and electronics makers now have an oversupply of chips “chip inventories are now at their highest level in over a decade” “good news for consumers who can get their hands on products from washing machines to laptops faster, and sometimes more cheaply than a year ago” Chipmakers expect sales of chips to double by 2030

Canon hopes to start shipments of new low-cost chip-making machines as early as this year, as the Japanese company best known for its cameras and printers tries to undercut longtime industry leader ASML in providing the tools to make leading-edge semiconductors. The challenge from Canon comes as Western governments attempt to restrict China’s access to the most advanced semiconductor technologies and as global demand for chipmaking machines has soared. If successful, Canon’s “nanoimprint”...