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China commerce minister frustrated by US 'interfering' in international lithography exports via third countries
By Anton Shilov published
China accuses the U.S. of instrumentalizing and weaponizing third-party country exports of advanced chipmaking tools.

Expert likens U.S.–China sanctions to 'a pillow fight, not a chip war'
By Anton Shilov published
Despite curbs, China still gets what it wants to boost its AI and HPC sectors, says expert.

Intel says 18A process node performance is ahead of TSMC's N2, but Intel's process arrives a year earlier
By Anton Shilov published
The chief executive of Intel believes the company's 18A process node is years ahead of TSMC's N2 due to backside power delivery.

U.S. mulls imposing tariffs on China-made legacy chips
By Anton Shilov published
U.S. Commerce Department set to survey companies in other sectors to find out how they procure simplistic, but vital chips.

Chinese chipmaker SMIC is working on 3nm process technology: Report
By Anton Shilov published
Without access to leading-edge chip production tools, SMIC remains committed to 5nm and 3nm process technologies.

Chinese company claims chip breakthrough with 28nm-capable litho tool
By Anton Shilov published
Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group claims to have developed a 28nm-capable lithography machine for chip manufacturing, a breakthrough for the Chinese tech industry.

Huawei's sanctions-evading Kirin 9000S processor tested
By Anton Shilov published
Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000 remains the company's most powerful, despite the introduction of the new sanctions-evading Kirin 9000S that's fabricated on SMIC's 7nm node.

Dell restricts exports of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900, and Pro W7900 GPUs to China
By Anton Shilov published
Dell asks its sales personnel not to supply AMD's latest graphics cards to China and 22 other locations.

Chinese chipmaker uses IBM's open standard Power ISA instead of x86 — plows forward with second-gen server CPU
By Anton Shilov published
Hexin Technology powers on the second-gen HX-C2000 test chip, the TC2, for servers based on the Power ISA RISC architecture instead of x86 or Arm.

The US government banned Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU from China — chipmaker pulls RTX 4090 listings due to AI concerns, but leaves RTX 6000 Ada
By Anton Shilov published
Nvidia no longer sells the GeForce RTX 4090 in China, but the data center and workstation-oriented RTX 6000 Ada still seems to be available online.
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