Chip War

The ‘Countering CCP Drones Act’ which would ban all DJI drone sales in the U.S. has been shot down by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee from its version of the NDAA.

In a Bloomberg interview, former President Donald Trump said that the US should be paid to protect Taiwan from China, and highlighted the island's dominance in chipmaking.

The Chip War is fought over ideology, not factual basis, says tech boss

China has more patents than the six top nations in generative AI research.

Industry sources say that one of the reasons for the delay of Samsung's Texas fab is that it is considering upgrading it from 4nm to 2nm.

Only 20% of China's chipmaking tools are domestically made, putting the country at the mercy of external forces.

U.S. does not want AMD and Nvidia sell their advanced AI and HPC GPUs to Middle East countries as these processors could be resold to China, or accessed by Chinese entities from the cloud

Microsoft offers over 700 AI and Cloud Computing engineers and other staffers in its China operation to move to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand.

The U.S. will increase import tariffs on Chinese semiconductors from 25% to 50% in 2025.

The US government has broken its record for most Chinese entities on the Entity List at once, with quantum research in China and elsewhere receiving fresh new sanctions and blockades.