TSMC reportedly surveys suppliers on rare-earth-free motors as China's export-control pause nears legal expiry
The world's largest contract chipmaker is weighing whether the motors inside its factory-automation equipment can run without rare-earth magnets, a sign that China's grip on rare earths now reaches the machinery that keeps fabs running, just as a key Chinese export-control pause approaches its…
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- T2TSMC reportedly surveys suppliers on rare-earth-free motors as China's export-control pause nears legal expiryJP/KR/TW: Korea Herald / Taipei Times / DigiTimes