 
 
							Analysts have, since last year, been cautioning on a slowdown in Chinese spending on chip equipment
 
 
							Taiwanese officials maintain TSMC won’t begin producing 2nm chips the US before 2028 amid concern that the chipmaker could lose its geopolitical importance
 
 
							“The only way to beat China is to stay ahead of them," US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in an interview
 
 
							Nvidia has asked its big distributors, including Super Micro and Dell, to conduct spot checks of their customers in Southeast Asia
 
 
							Shares of the company— Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) — jumped 4.35% after its removal from the list
 
 
							China's anti-monopoly probe into Nvidia comes just two weeks after it said it would support the American chipmaker's efforts ’to take root’ in the country
Beijing said it 'welcomed Nvidia's continued investment in China' and that it will support the chipmaker's efforts 'to continue to take root' in the country
 
 
							Chinese chipmakers are racing to rival Nvidia on AI chips as increasing export restrictions by US — and its allies — slow the growth of China’s tech industry
 
 
							The world's top chipmaker faces limits on what chips it can make in the US at a time when the incoming Trump Administration could put increasing production-related demands on it
 
 
							The move, which will have far-reaching consequences for China’s semiconductor supply chains and tech giants, came after US officials visited Taiwan last week
 
 
							The Taiwanese firm’s chairman Young Liu said capacity at the Mexico plant would be "very, very enormous"
 
 
							The world's biggest memory chip, smartphone and TV-maker is estimating an operating profit of $6.78 billion for Q3, versus a $7.6 billion forecast