GlobalWafers Co., a Taiwanese manufacturer of silicon wafers used in chip production, is in line to receive $400 million in US government help for projects in Texas and Missouri.

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it planned to award Taiwan's GlobalWafers up to $400 million in government grants to significantly increase production of silicon wafers.

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded funding worth $406 million to two companies to boost the domestic production of silicon wafers in the United States.The funding ...

What Happened: The grant will facilitate the establishment of the first high-volume U.S. production of 300-mm wafers for advanced semiconductors and expand silicon-on-insulator wafer production.

REC Silicon is shutting a polysilicon plant in Moses Lake, Washington, that has struggled to achieve customers’ quality requirements. The plant is one of only a few in the US that manufactures ...

News. Taiwanese silicon wafer-maker GlobalWafers opens $3.5 billion factory in Sherman, Texas GlobalWafers’ most advanced fully integrated silicon wafer facility is the first of its kind built ...

The company will transfer wafer production from the Miyazaki plant of its subsidiary Sumco Techxiv to other manufacturing facilities, as it restructures the production for silicon wafers of 200mm ...

Apple has begun mass production of its next-generation M5 chip, according to South Korean media, with the processor expected to arrive in devices potentially as soon as this year.