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Huawei recently posted a new job ad seeking a "lithography process engineer".

TSMC has no plans to continue supplying Huawei after September 14, the company said today in an investor meeting on its second-quarter results.

TSMC has made submissions to the U.S. in an effort to continue supplying Huawei after the grace period, according to cnyes.com.

UNISOC, China-based supplier of mobile communications chipsets and IoT chipsets, today announced the W307, the next-generation smartwatch platform.

As a leading Chinese foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has been doing its best to catch up with TSMC.

Later this month TSMC, the world's largest independent foundry, will begin production of Apple's custom-designed A14 Bionic chipset for the 2020 5G iPhone 12 model, according to Digitimes.

According to Taiwan media reports, after announcing that the mass production of 3nm process is expected in the second half of 2022, TSMC will accelerate the pace of 2nm R&D and recently purchased two additional Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) machines to invest in 2nm R&D. 

In response to previous media reports that Huawei intends to purchase TSMC chips through MediaTek to circumvent US sanctions, MediaTek has refuted.

Huawei is trying to convince TSMC and Samsung to build advanced process lines based on non-U.S. equipment, so that Huawei's self-developed chips can still be produced under the U.S. ban, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily.

Huawei's next-generation flagship chip, called the Kirin 1000, is based on the 5nm process and will be available on the Mate 40 series phones first, according to well-known leaker @RODENT950.