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China’s Third Chip Fund Gets $47 Billion to Boost Output
China’s Third Chip Fund Gets $47 Billion to Boost Output

China's third state fund to boost chip production was set up on Friday with registered capital totalling 344 billion yuan ($47.5 billion)

South Korea to Resume Talks With China on Trade Deal, Security
South Korea to Resume Talks With China on Trade Deal, Security

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang spoke on Sunday, a day before a summit with their Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida

Musk Wants a ‘GigaComputer’ For xAI ChatBot: The Information
Musk Wants a ‘GigaComputer’ For xAI ChatBot: The Information

Entrepreneur plans to build a supercomputer "four times as powerful than the GPU clusters that exist today", to drive a smarter version of his AI chatbot Grok

Activists Urge US to Shut Hong Kong Trade Offices – RFA
India And China Blocking ‘Pillar 1’ Global Tax Deal, Yellen Says
Applied Materials in Hot Water For Gear Sent to China Chipmaker
Analysts Discover Simple Cargo Ship Emissions Solution – NA
Hang Seng, Nikkei, China Stocks Slide on Fading US Rate Hopes
Nvidia Chip Prices Take a Hit in Duel With China’s Huawei
Big Oil All Talk And No Action on Climate Change, Report Says

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors