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Monday 31 August 2026

Unimicron search puts spotlight on cross-border manufacturing for Taiwan's electronics sector

Unimicron, a major Taiwanese IC substrate maker, came under intense supply chain scrutiny last week after reports that prosecutors and investigators searched the company over a suspected...

Monday 31 August 2026

US weighs limits on China's access to chips in overseas data centers

US restrictions on China's access to advanced computing could expand beyond physical chip shipments to the remote use of computing resources, potentially increasing compliance requirements...

Monday 31 August 2026

CXMT's global DRAM push runs into US curbs

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is suing the Pentagon to overturn its designation as a Chinese military company as the Chinese DRAM...

Friday 28 August 2026

US targets Singapore's Apex Logistics in widening probe into illicit Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Efforts to curb the illicit trade of advanced AI hardware to China have intensified following a series of indictments and probes targeting the supply chain.

Thursday 27 August 2026

Trump declares emergency over foreign grid equipment, likely eyeing Chinese power hardware

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 26 declaring a national emergency over the security of America's electrical grid. It restricts the purchase, import, and...

Thursday 27 August 2026

Washington's silicon-anode bet tests whether battery innovation can break China's graphite grip

The years-long tug-of-war between the US and China has witnessed a head-on showdown over technological might, as stringent export controls and tightening restrictions continue to push...

Wednesday 26 August 2026

South Korea, US clash over reactor choice in US$350B nuclear deal

South Korea and the United States are at odds over which reactor design to build — and who runs the project — in the nuclear power component of Seoul's US investment package,...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

US voices first complaint over South Korea's KRW800 trillion chip cluster as investment pressure mounts

The US has informally expressed dissatisfaction with the South Korean government's KRW800 trillion (US$578.5 billion) plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest...

Monday 24 August 2026

How Nvidia's whitelist was beaten: 74 B300 servers, Taiwan to China

Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office has indicted nine people over the illegal export of high-end AI servers built on Nvidia's B300 GPUs. The indictment lays out, step by step,...

Thursday 20 August 2026

China reportedly delays germanium, quartz clearances, impacting Taiwan optics and aerospace suppliers

China has reportedly delayed customs clearance for critical materials — including germanium, quartz-based materials and neodymium magnets — since 2025, lengthening delivery...

Thursday 20 August 2026

AI models show softer responses on authoritarian leaders, report finds

U.S.-based AI models were found to avoid direct criticism of authoritarian leaders more often than democratic ones, according to a July report from the Meta-funded Oversight Board...

Wednesday 19 August 2026

Nvidia H200 chips reach China as imports remain limited

ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors in mainland China in recent weeks, the Financial Times reported, marking the clearest sign yet...

Wednesday 19 August 2026

China dominates optical modules but US allies hold the upstream keys

The technology rivalry between the US and China is spreading into a new part of the AI supply chain: optical transceivers, the critical devices that connect AI servers to fiber-optic...

Wednesday 19 August 2026

US pushes South Korea to prioritize memory chip investment in trade talks

US officials have pressed South Korea to make memory chip manufacturing its first strategic investment in the US, according to a report cited by JoongAng Daily. The claim...

Tuesday 18 August 2026

Tech blocs of the new Cold War: US pushes allies to pick a side

The intensifying US-China technology rivalry is moving beyond export controls and semiconductor restrictions. What comes next could...

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