China produces some 90% of the world's rare earths and is the dominant supplier of the vital elements to users around the world

Stock jumps 15% on Wednesday after tariffs eased and news emerges of airlifts of iPhones flown out of India to beat the start of tariffs in the US

After averting the risk of a 100% tariff on its chip sales to the US, the world’s largest contract chipmaker now faces the threat of a $1 billion penalty from Washington

The Trump Administration was reportedly “hours away” last week from announcing its proposed spin off of TikTok US, until tariffs wrecked the deal

The orders for Nvidia's H20 chip - the most advanced semiconductor the group is permitted to sell to China – came in the first three months of this year, a report by The Information said

Wang Xiaofeng, a prominent cybersecurity researcher, was removed from Indiana University last week after the FBI raided his two homes in the state

Analysts have, since last year, been cautioning on a slowdown in Chinese spending on chip equipment

White House plan entails spinning off a US entity for TikTok and diluting Chinese ownership in the unit to below the 20% level required by US law

Baidu has struggled to gain widespread adoption for its Ernie LLM, despite claiming performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4

While it is not unusual for Washington to influence private deals of listed companies for strategic reasons, the White House has taken a role similar to an investment bank, analysts say

TSMC proposed setting up a firm with design giants like Nvidia to run Intel's chip fabs, but the US firm's new CEO has told employees he wouldn't split the group up

Potential buyers reportedly include Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft, the YouTube star MrBeast and Frank McCourt