On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world's most advanced microchip: the 2 nanometre (2nm) chip.

Silicon changed everything. Manufacturing transistors out of silicon allowed them to be made small enough to fit on a microchip, opening the gates to a rush of gadgets that have become smaller and ...

China will consider the location where the circuits were etched onto tiny pieces of silicon to be the place where a chip is made. Mr. Trump, as did President Joseph R. Biden Jr. before him ...