Chip War

The U.S. government has revoked export licenses for select processors for PCs and smartphones — Intel and Qualcomm can no longer ship to Huawei.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims the Chip War is not meant to restrict or hold back China, ignoring real-world impacts on Chinese industry and the claims of other U.S. lawmakers.

King Yuan sells off its China subsidiary due to geopolitics, U.S. sanctions against China, rising competition, and ability to earn more in Taiwan.

U.S. lawmakers again review the risks of China's access to powerful chips through the RISC-V standard, an open-source ISA that wants to remain open to all.

China's legacy chip production has skyrocketed since U.S. export sanctions took effect. In Q1 2024, China's legacy chip production was three times what it was in Q1 2019.

The U.S. government is prepping a list of fabs in China that will be barred from getting advanced chipmaking tools.

AMD lists a mystery MI388X AI GPU in official docs as barred from China sales.

Chinese companies accelerate procurement of ASML's litho tools in January and February.

Lenovo wants to offer servers based on processors from every player around, not including AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia.

The National Science and Technology Council has published its five-year strategy to make the most of the CHIPS Act.