TLDRs: China has threatened unspecified retaliation after Taiwan blacklisted Huawei and SMIC. Taiwan’s move marks a significant shift toward U.S.-aligned tech restrictions on China. Cross-strait economic ties complicate Beijing’s ability to strike back without self-harm. Taiwan is leveraging its semiconductor dominance as geopolitical leverage in the tech war. China has issued a stern warning to…
British semiconductor company Alphawave IP Group on Tuesday said the UK takeover panel has extended the deadline for a takeover offer by US chipmaker Qualcomm to May 12. Alphawave said it is in discussions with Qualcomm and, accordingly, agreed to extend the previous deadline of April 29 for the U.S. chipmaker to make a formal…
Semiconductor industry veteran Yin – who previously worked in the US at Applied Materials, Lam Research and Intel – identified as a US citizen in AMEC’s annual reports for 2022, 2021 and 2020. AMEC did not state Yin’s nationality in the firm’s 2023 report. The change of citizenship for Yin, 81, is the latest sign…
China has clarified the place of origin for integrated circuits (ICs) amid an escalating US-China tariff war, which is expected to give local semiconductor foundries a significant boost, potentially undermining US President Donald Trump’s plan to bring manufacturing back to America. The state-backed China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) informed its members on Friday, citing customs…
The latest wave of US sanctions on chip exports has put China in the spotlight, forcing the country’s tech sector to adapt quickly. Chinese tech companies are actively investing in homegrown technologies in an attempt to mitigate the impact of US sanctions, particularly in the semiconductor sector. This reflects a broader strategy of self-reliance, driven…
China is producing twice as many research papers as the US on chip design and fabrication, laying the foundation for a possible leadership role in next-generation semiconductor technology, according to a US think tank. While China is behind in advanced semiconductors and is restricted from buying high-end chipmaking tools such as the extreme ultraviolet lithography…
Malaysia’s semiconductor industry stands to benefit from the escalating US-China tech war, as trade restrictions steer more companies to consider the Southeast Asian country as a viable alternative in the global chip supply chain, according to experts. As the US government continues to tighten trade restrictions on China, Malaysia is seeing more opportunities to develop…
Washington targeted the wrong Chinese AI firms. One of the last acts of former president Joe Biden’s tech war was to blacklist more than two dozen chip and artificial intelligence companies from China, along with two from Singapore. They included Zhipu, China’s most prominent start-up in developing large language models (LLM) for AI. Unfortunately, DeepSeek…
President-elect Donald Trump named Elbridge Colby as his next undersecretary of defense policy. In February, Colby said “disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes” if China invades Taiwan. Colby made the same point in 2023, saying the US should never allow TSMC to fall into Chinese hands. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for undersecretary of defense…
US-sanctioned Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision has terminated five contracts with local government authorities in Xinjiang, as it braces for the second term of US president-elect Donald Trump, who first put Hikvision on a trade blacklist in 2019. Hikvision ended the contracts for its public security projects in the far-western region of China, where local subsidiaries…