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…
Delegates at a Chinese semiconductor conference in Shanghai have called for “global cooperation”, sending a conciliatory message at a time when Washington and Beijing are intensifying a chip war. At the Global Semiconductor Market Summit on Thursday, one of China’s first major chip industry gatherings since the Biden administration imposed new export restrictions, speakers largely…
By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Computer chip equipment maker ASML said it does not expect new U.S. restrictions on semiconductor exports to China, announced on Monday, to affect its most recent financial guidance. Separately, the Dutch government said it shares U.S. security concerns on the export of advanced semiconductor making tools, and it its studying…
China’s semiconductor industry is bracing for new shocks, as the US prepares to add several major chip equipment and materials suppliers on the mainland to its trade restriction list, dealing a fresh blow to the country’s push for technological self-reliance, according to two people familiar with the matter. Several chip fabrication plants and manufacturing partners…