Senior executives from chipmakers including Intel, GlobalFoundries, Amkor and Marvell are expected to attend a business meeting on Monday in Hanoi

While India and the US are not formal treaty-bound allies, Washington wants New Delhi to be a strategic counterweight to China

The Indian telecoms-to-energy conglomerate is looking to protect its supply chains after shortfalls scuppered its plans in recent years

The chief of one of the world’s biggest chip equipment-makers, ASML, said isolating China completely will ‘force’ the country to ramp up innovation

"The significance is that it shows that China has been able to stay 2-2.5 nodes behind the world's best (chip) companies," Dan Hutcheson, an analyst with TechInsights said

China's ban on iPhone use by government workers was extended to local government entities last month, raising fears that Apple and its suppliers could be hit hard by rising Sino-US tension

Republican chair of influential House panel calls for harsher curbs after the discovery of new chips in Huawei phones "that may violate trade restrictions"

State media said the investment was a clear sign of Beijing's push to end the country's reliance on foreign semiconductor firms

Analysts expect more debate in the US on the effectiveness of chip curbs and the possibility of Congress including harsher sanctions in a competition bill it is preparing against China

The Taiwanese tech giant blamed falling smartphone sales after its revenue in August fell 8% year-on-year and was down 12% on the previous month

The development follows sanctions-hit Huawei's success in building an advanced 7-nanometer processor, in collaboration with state-backed SMIC

Reports that Huawei's latest smartphone has 5G capabilities has sparked questions on the effectiveness of US sanctions and whether chip curbs on China should be expanded