The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its Entity List, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chip maker Cambricon (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: the US commerce department plans to put Chinese memory chip maker YMTC on its “entity list” as early as this week, limiting its ability to get US tech  —  YMTC and others may go on ‘entity list’ as early as this week  —  The Biden administration is set …

Ryosuke Eguchi / Nikkei Asia:
Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings and US’ Western Digital open a new ~$6.79B flash memory fab in Mie Prefecture, amid a market downturn for memory chips  —  Chipmaker opts for production cut but bullish on facility investment  —  TOKYO — Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings on Wednesday opened …

Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils a roadmap for mass production of advanced chips, with its second-generation 3nm chips coming in 2024, 2nm chips in 2025, and 1.4nm chips in 2027  —  Samsung Electronics Co. announced an aggressive five-year plan to lure US chip buyers with more advanced technology …

Che Pan / South China Morning Post:
A profile of YMTC, China’s top memory chip maker that could end up in the crosshairs of US sanctions; YMTC had 1% share of the global memory chip market in 2020  —  A few months before the US-China trade war started in July 2018, local media coverage of President Xi Jinping was focused …

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Taiwan pledges to work closely with the US and other allies to implement “very firm” export controls and prevent China’s military from acquiring advanced chips  —  Taiwan pledged to work closely with the US and other allies to prevent China’s military from acquiring state-of-the-art technology …

Bloomberg:
Sources: TSMC will make advanced 4nm chips when its ~$12B Arizona plant opens in 2024, an upgrade to prior 5nm claims, at the urging of Apple, AMD, and others  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens in 2024 …