Plans for the new facility in Arizona are not completely finalised but it will produce advanced 3-nanometre chips, founder Morris Chang said on Monday. He plans to attend the launch.

TSMC envoy Morris Chang, who was Taiwan's envoy at the summit in Bangkok, said his warm words with Xi were his own idea and he just offered his "own opinion".

Cyber attack on Vanuatu has greatly disrupted government services in the Pacific Island nation over the past two weeks

Taiwan’s parliament is likely to review technology transfers to mainland China because of fears that leaked advancements could undermine the island’s critical tech sector

The news comes after China's biggest company reported a second straight quarterly sales drop, hit by the economic slowdown and China's regulatory crackdown.

FBI director Christopher Wray told lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday the Chinese government could harness the video-sharing app to influence users or control their devices.

China confirmed this week that a Long March rocket broke up on Saturday and left debris in an orbit close to SpaceX satellites used by Elon Musk's Starlink internet company

FTX founder and former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried, said he expanded his business too fast and failed to notice signs of trouble at the exchange

Crypto exchange said on Saturday it detected unauthorised access and analytics firms said crypto assets valued at around half a billion dollars were stolen and it may have been hacked.

The US Trade Representative's office said the latest talks between Taiwan and officials from six US agencies went well, before they wound up in New York on Wednesday

Chinese takeover would endanger public safety because of China's "deliberate, strategic approach to knowledge discovery and production control", German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said.

Major Japanese companies such as NTT and Kioxia have said they will invest in a new state-backed company that aims to mass-produce next-generation logic semiconductors