MKS Instruments to offload $1bn chemicals unit to focus on chips
Supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment hopes to tap into artificial intelligence boom
Supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment hopes to tap into artificial intelligence boom

Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company’s new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers

Reforms, faster development and lower costs have turbocharged growth

Substrate plans to use particle accelerators to lower cost of chip manufacturing

US chipmaker posts positive revenue and forecast as it cuts jobs

Deal could cost up to $500bn on top of start-up’s $1tn pledge for semiconductors and data centres

Deal would mark latest move by a life sciences group to jettison lower-growth assets