{"id":986430,"date":"2026-01-20T08:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986430"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:01:06","slug":"powerchip-shares-jump-after-micron-moves-to-buy-taiwan-fab-for-1-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/powerchip-shares-jump-after-micron-moves-to-buy-taiwan-fab-for-1-8-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerchip shares jump after Micron moves to buy Taiwan fab for $1.8 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Shares of Taiwan&#8217;s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp rose nearly 10% on Monday, after U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology said it would buy a fabrication plant from the company. <\/p>\n<p>Micron Technology said on Saturday it had \u200csigned a letter \u200cof intent to acquire Powerchip&#8217;s P5 fabrication site in Tongluo, Miaoli County, Taiwan, for $1.8 billion in cash. <\/p>\n<p>Powerchip is one of \u200cTaiwan&#8217;s major semiconductor foundries and produces both legacy chips and memory chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Shares of Taiwan&#8217;s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp rose nearly 10% on Monday, after U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology said it would buy a fabrication plant from the company. Micron Technology said on Saturday it had \u200csigned a letter \u200cof intent to acquire Powerchip&#8217;s P5 fabrication site in Tongluo, Miaoli County, Taiwan, for $1.8 billion in cash. Powerchip is one of \u200cTaiwan&#8217;s major semiconductor foundries and produces both legacy chips and memory chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}