Visitors salutes in front of a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Communist Party leaders have gathered for a plenum in the city Oct. 20-23. Photographer: Na Bian/Bloomberg © 2024 Bloomberg Finance LP A gathering of more than 200 top leaders of China’s Communist Party in Beijing this week…
http://dieterspears.com/istock/links/button_election.jp g getty While the government shutdown continues with no immediate end in sight, the Senate passed its draft of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act earlier in October. The House passed its version of the bill in September. Now, lawmakers will work to reconcile differences between the two proposals and settle on a final…
Nexperia has withheld access to work accounts and halted salaries for its employees in China, according to local news reports citing a letter from the Chinese unit of the Dutch chipmaker, marking the latest escalation in a growing political dispute between the Netherlands and China. The Chinese unit of Nexperia informed customers on Friday that…
Chinese electronic-parts supplier Wingtech is the latest company to face a setback amid the US-China tech war, after Dutch authorities froze control of its local subsidiary in a sign of new risks for Chinese tech firms’ overseas investments. The rare move by local authorities was the latest example of increasing operational risks for Chinese tech…
Good morning. Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit kicks off today in Washington, D.C. and there are quite a few notable tech folk on the agenda. Among them: Best Buy’s Corie Barry, Palantir’s Shannon Clark, Microsoft’s Amy Coleman, Logitech’s Hanneke Faber, IBM’s Radha Iyengar Plumb, Workday’s Emma Chalwin, ServiceNow’s Gina Mastantuono, Airbnb’s Ellie Mertz, DoorDash’s Tia…
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing is stacking up its bargaining chips ahead of expected U.S.-China talks when Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping visit Seoul this month, announcing new export controls to tighten its grip over high-tech manufacturing supply chains. The two superpowers look to be struggling to move beyond their current tariff truce…
China announced it is tightening the export of rare earth technologies, broadening restrictions that have been a source of tension between Beijing and Washington. Technologies related to the extraction of rare earth minerals, manufacturing of magnets and recycling of rare earths are banned from being exported unless permitted, according to a notice published Thursday by…
OpenAI signed a multi-year partnership Monday with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices as the ChatGPT-maker continues an investment spree to secure massive amounts of computing power for rolling out generative artificial intelligence. The Barron’s news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go…
China’s push to develop top-end artificial intelligence microchips is gaining momentum, but analysts say it will struggle to match the technical might of US powerhouse Nvidia within the current decade. The Barron’s news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to…
Moore Threads Technology, a Chinese graphics processing unit (GPU) start-up founded by a veteran of Nvidia’s China operations, has become one of the most closely watched semiconductor players in the country, as domestic AI chip designers race to displace the US chip giant. The Beijing-based company last week received approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange…