Korean chipmaker plans to build a cluster of four fabrication plants in Gyeonggi near Seoul, with work to begin next year on the $90-billion project, which could be the "largest fab complex in the world"

Vice Commerce Minister Guo Tingting said "China will fully guarantee national treatment for foreign companies", but did not explain how it would do that

The guidance from Beijing also asks authorities and agencies to shun Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made software in favour of domestic options

China's push for self-sufficiency in the computer chip supply chain was a noted feature of the annual Semicon China exhibition in Shanghai this week

US lawmakers were already looking to cut SMIC off from US tech imports after it produced the surprisingly high-end chip for Huawei’s latest handset

Micron, one of the two suppliers of top-end chips to Nvidia along with South Korea's SK Hynix, added nearly $19 billion to its market value this week

Nvidia CEO downplayed the risk of conflict and said he saw little chance of being forced to move away from working with Taiwan's TSMC

Experts say the impact of US chip curbs on China is a 'mixed picture', but there is “no way back” to the global semiconductor ecosystem that existed before the Covid pandemic

Chinese carmakers are turning to Nvidia for advanced technology in an effort to compensate for what they currently lack in global brand recognition

Dozens of South Korean companies have left China in recent years for reasons ranging from bilateral strains, geopolitical rivalry, plus China's economic slowdown and push for self-sufficiency

The US has reportedly been pressing Seoul, since the second-half of 2023, to implement export curbs targeting chip supplies to China

Raimondo, on a tour to push investment in states in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, says the US is looking to diversify sources of chip production