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

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

Chinese state media says the development could lead to “overwhelmingly unfavourable consequences” for Taiwan and global chip supply chains

Chinese firms have stepped up their purchases of materials needed to make chips and electronics from US suppliers ahead of the new year

“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

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

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

Chips are among the products the US needs the most, Taiwan's central bank chief noted, adding, 'they design them and we make them'

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

TSMC was a key supplier for China's Huawei until 2020 when Washington introduced new rules that barred the firm from continuing to do so

The group accused Intel of undermining China's interests and threatening its national security despite having "made a lot of money" in the country