The journey of a chip starts with ordinary quartz-rich sand that contains silicon dioxide. It's heated and refined into pure ...

The $184 billion Qualcomm, which is known for chips found in smartphones and counts Apple (AAPL.O) as a customer, has been working on plans to buy pieces of Intel for months.

Small businesses can still get in on billions of dollars in CHIPS Act spending — they just have to seize the moment. The CHIPS Act, or "Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and ...