The largest US semiconductor equipment maker is being probed by authorities for sending gear to SMIC via South Korea without Washington’s approval.
Seoul aims to help boost South Korea’s global market share in non-memory chips, such as mobile processors, to 10 per cent from the current 2 per cent.
Moonshot AI is in talks with investors for additional funding that will boost its valuation by US$500 million over its previous round in February.
Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC and Dutch machine supplier ASML have ways of disabling their equipment, sources told Bloomberg.
An analysis from TechInsights has found 33 China-sourced components in the standard Pura 70 handset, compared with five sourced from overseas.
Microsoft is asking employees to move to several designated locations, including those in the US and Australia, as AI becomes a flashpoint in the US-China tech war.
Kingland Systems is closing its first subsidiary outside the US and sacking its entire local workforce, sources say.
The bill would prevent federal agencies from contracting with five Chinese biotech companies – BGI Group, MGI, Complete Genomics, Wuxi AppTec, and Wuxi Biologics.
US President Joe Biden also gives his action a political edge, criticising Donald Trump, his predecessor and challenger for re-election, for failing to increase US exports and boost manufacturing.
The Shanghai-based company says its placement on a US list of firms accused of aiding China’s military has caused it to suffer reputational injury and lost business opportunities.
The US is expected to triple its domestic chip-making capacity by 2032 and dwarf China’s output in advanced integrated circuits, according to a report published by a semiconductor trade group.
The popular social media platform has started to invite merchants for a beta run of TikTok Shop in Mexico, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Huawei’s latest high-end smartphone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory chip and an improved processor, a teardown analysis showed.
China’s strengthened push to use RISC-V, an open-source chip-design architecture, is facing new risks amid scrutiny by the US and Google’s move to stop supporting it on Android.
Further restrictions on access to Intel and Qualcomm chips would pose challenges to Huawei’s PC business, which has been gaining ground in the China market.
Xinhua, China Daily and others ran articles on Wednesday supporting TikTok and ByteDance’s lawsuit against the US government.
Alat CEO Amit Midha said the only request so far has been to keep supply chains separate, but it would divest if asked because the ‘US is the number one partner for us’.
Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, said he had explored a possible purchase of TikTok, but has moved on from the idea of trying to acquire the video-sharing app from its Chinese owners.
The move comes after the tech giant released its first AI-enabled laptop, powered by a new Intel processor.
Lemon8 has been the most downloaded lifestyle app on Apple ’s App Store in the US since April 7, ahead of Pinterest and dating platform Tinder.
In the face of a potential ban of TikTok in the US, Chinese merchants selling on the platform are preparing for the worst.