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US weighs annual China chip supply approvals for Samsung, Hynix, Bloomberg News reports

(Fixes typographical error in headline) (Reuters) – The United States is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix’s China-based factories, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Officials in the U.S. Commerce Department last week presented to Korean counterparts a “site license” idea to supplant indefinite authorizations the chipmakers secured…

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Opinion | Why US export controls won’t stop China’s AI rise

Opinion | Why US export controls won’t stop China’s AI rise

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that export controls alone are not an effective strategy to curb China’s development of artificial intelligence (AI). He’s absolutely right. China’s rapid ascendancy in the global AI race is becoming increasingly evident, driven by its strategic focus on engineering, application-driven development and alignment with national policy. While the US…

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Tech war: Huawei to unveil tech to cut China’s reliance on HBM chips, report says

Tech war: Huawei to unveil tech to cut China’s reliance on HBM chips, report says

Huawei Technologies is set to unveil a technological breakthrough that could reduce China’s reliance on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for running artificial intelligence reasoning models, according to state-run Securities Times. The announcement will take place in collaboration with China UnionPay at the 2025 Financial AI Reasoning Application Landing and Development Forum in Shanghai on Tuesday,…

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Taiwan arrests 6 in probe of TSMC chip technology leak

Taiwan arrests 6 in probe of TSMC chip technology leak

Taiwan prosecutors arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), opening an investigation into a potential breach of national security involving a global tech industry linchpin. The chipmaker to Nvidia reported a number of former and current staff to authorities on suspicion they illegally obtained core technology. A total…

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Tesla's founder and CEO, Elon Musk, expects the deal outcome to be larger than $16.5 billion after signing a chip supply deal with South Korean electronics maker Samsung on Monday, 28 July 2025.

Elon Musk’s Tesla signs $16.5 billion chip supply deal with Samsung; South Korean giant’s shares jump over 6%

Billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) company, Tesla Inc., signed a $16.5 billion chip supply deal with the South Korean electronics maker Samsung Electronics on Monday, 28 July 2025. The EV major aims to focus on the next-generation AI6 chip, according to the executive’s post on the social media platform X.  The chip supply partnership…

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