semiconductor policy

Bangladesh has opened the National Semiconductor Symposium & BEAR Summit 2026 in Dhaka, putting talent development, deep-tech startups and international partnerships at the center of its push to build a domestic chip industry. The two-day event began July 25 at the Novotheatre, according to The...

Canada’s Semiconductor Council is pressing Ottawa to add a seventh semiconductor pillar to the country’s newly launched AI for All strategy, arguing that sovereign AI infrastructure cannot rest entirely on foreign-made chips. As first reported by BetaKit, the council, which represents nearly 60...

Apple’s reported effort to add Chinese-made memory chips to products sold beyond China has turned into a high-stakes test of U.S. semiconductor policy, pitting the world’s most valuable consumer electronics company against Micron, America’s only major memory-chip manufacturer. At stake is not...

SEMI, the semiconductor trade group whose members include Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix, has warned senior Trump administration officials in a July 1 letter that U.S. attempts to steer memory-chip prices or production capacity could worsen the shortage now squeezing AI data centers and consumer...

Congress’s Semiconductor Superiority Act, introduced in June 2026 by bipartisan lawmakers, would amend the CHIPS and Science Act’s advanced manufacturing tax credit so semiconductor facilities in low Earth orbit can qualify for the same incentive as fabs on Earth. That sounds like...

President Donald Trump on June 18, 2026, accused Taiwan and other countries of having “stolen” America’s semiconductor factories, using a Truth Social post to blame prior U.S. presidents for losing manufacturing leadership in an industry invented and commercialized in the United States. The...

Nvidia hired veteran Washington operator Bruce Andrews to lead its government affairs operation in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2026, after Andrews previously served as Intel’s top government affairs executive under former CEO Pat Gelsinger. The move is not a routine personnel shuffle; it is a...

Windows has stopped pretending to be merely an operating system that quietly evolves; with Windows 11 Microsoft has made a series of deliberate architectural and policy choices that break long-standing continuity with the past—and those choices are already reshaping the desktop landscape...