How big a deal is China's reported breakthrough on a key chipmaking tool?

    China’s reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats

    ASML‘s stock fell Tuesday after a report that China is mass-producing a critical tool that the Dutch tech giant has long held a monopoly over. The decline came amid a steep sell-off in global semiconductor stocks as investors continued to grapple with uncertainty about the sector. ASML was last trading down 1.8%, but the stock…

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    Qualcomm shares jump more than 13% on Q2 earnings beat

      Qualcomm shares soar on CEO comments about China, large customer

      Qualcomm shares staged a dramatic turnaround after the bell on Wednesday as CEO Cristiano Amon said on the earnings call that it would begin shipping data center chips to “a large hyperscaler” within the calendar year. The stock initially fell as much as 7% after the chipmaker reported second-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street estimates…

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      Biggest takeaways from Nvidia GTC 2026

        Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says chipmaker has received orders from China

        After an extended delay in selling into the world’s second-largest economy, chipmaker Nvidia is gearing up to provide some customers in China with its H200 processors, CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday. “We have received purchase orders, and we’re in the process of restarting our manufacturing,” Huang told reporters at the company’s GTC conference in…

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        OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: Progress of Chinese tech firms is 'remarkable'

          Chinese tech companies progress remarkable

          The progress of Chinese tech companies across the entire stack is “remarkable,” OpenAI’s Sam Altman told CNBC. Altman’s comments come as China races against the U.S. to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — where AI matches human capabilities — and roll out the technology across society. The pace of technological advance in “many fields,” including…

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