AUSTIN, Texas – An Armenian national made his initial appearance in a federal court in Austin today after he was indicted and extradited on charges related to an alleged export control conspiracy. According to court documents, from February 2022 until at least August 2024, Kamo Kirakosyan and others allegedly participated in a criminal conspiracy to export goods, including items that can be used for semiconductor manufacturing...

The real crisis isn’t that obsolescence happens – it's that the industry still acts like it won’t. It’s not that the electronics industry doesn’t know obsolescence is a threat. It’s that, increasingly, it acts like it doesn’t care. Despite mounting warnings, the accelerated pace of innovation, once celebrated as progress, has become a liability. 

The United States is tightening restrictions on foreign chipmakers in China, revoking special authorizations that had allowed South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix to access American semiconductor manufacturing equipment, according to a Federal Register notice.

The hot-button issue of tariffs has cast a shadow over the electronics industry in 2025, but they are not the only factor. Tariffs are just part of the issues factoring into decisions electronics suppliers globally are making, according to a report titled "How trade tensions are reshaping the global semiconductor landscape" from market intelligence firm Omdia.

The U.S. cannot afford to rely on Taiwan for its chip supply, says Secretary Howard Lutnick, who warned in a CNBC interview that 99% of leading-edge semiconductors being made just “80 miles from China” poses a direct threat to national security. 

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 300 percent on semiconductor imports, with exemptions for foreign companies that commit to manufacturing in the US.

An illegal alien from China was sentenced yesterday to 96 months in prison for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition, and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departed from the Port of Long Beach, and for committing this crime at the direction of North Korean government officials...

A cheap logic IC slides into an urgent build. It passes bench tests. Everyone exhales. Months later, support tickets spike, the RMA queue swells, your best engineers are debugging field returns, and sales is explaining delays to your biggest customer. The price tag for that “cheap” part? Not the $10 you saved—think five or six figures...

If you’re like me, tariffs were not on your radar screen until a few months ago, but now political rhetoric has turned to presidential action. Tariffs are front-page news with major developments coming directly from the Oval Office. These are not typical times. 

At an Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump dangled an offer to Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia. Mr. Trump said there would be a price for granting Nvidia the licenses it needed to sell artificial intelligence chips to China. “I want 20 percent,” Mr. Trump said. “Will you make it 15?” Mr. Huang asked.