Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent remarks on Taiwan “taking about 100% of our chip business” and thus should pay the U.S. for defense have raised concerns in the semiconductor industry. According to a report by Economic Daily, citing a Taiwanese scholar’s observation, a...

Though the U.S. keeps tightening the export controls on the semiconductor sector, major chip equipment makers seem to become increasingly dependent on the Chinese market. According to a report by Nikkei, citing financial data such as Applied Materials and Lam Research, China’s share of sales have ...

The chip war between the U.S. and China keeps escalating, as China’s new regulation would reportedly take effect soon. This time it has a new target - rare-earth materials. According to the reports from Nikkei and Tom’s Hardware, the new regulation would be effective on October 1, asserting stat...

In October of 2023, the U.S. government expanded its restrictions on chip exports, limiting NVIDIA from exporting certain chips to China without prior permission. Despite this, NVIDIA is not expected to relinquish the Chinese market and may commence production of the AI chip "H20," specifically des...

As one of the key cases in the US-China tech war, American memory giant Micron Technology had mend relations with China. Recently, Micron said a global settlement agreement with state-backed competitor Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit (JHICC) concerning intellectual property theft lawsuits. Ac...