"It takes huge amounts of pre-emptive investment to be a chipmaker, and it takes five years, 10 years to break even on those investments, so putting predictability into jeopardy makes investments difficult," an analyst said

Montana, which has a total of about 1.1 million residents, is the first US state to impose a ban on the short-video app, which is due to take effect on January 1, 2024

Industry insiders say Chinese security officials issued explicit warnings in recent years on areas to avoid in corporate investigations, and the 'off limits' disputed region was one of them

A $2.6 billion share sale, if approved by China’s securities watchdog, would follow a capital raising rush by Chinese chipmakers in the face of US sanctions

The move by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was revealed in 13-F filings, which showed several other big funds had poured in millions in the Taiwanese chipmaker

As the impact of charges levelled against consultancy firm Capvision reverberates across the industry, some consultants in China are now scrambling to reduce risk

US intelligence director Avril Haines gave that estimate of global economic impact to the Senate Armed Services panel, noting that Taiwan's TSMC is the world's biggest maker of advanced chips

The probe suggests other companies or industries could be singled out by Beijing based on unclear suspicions, AmCham China said

The development comes amid political and regulatory uncertainties in China that have pushed foreign businesses to move out of the country

Washington has asked Seoul to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting China sales if Micron is banned as a result of an ongoing investigation

The Chinese tech giant was cut off from software core to the company's operations by several successive rounds of US trade sanctions

But TSMC is said to be concerned about rules that could require it to share profits from the factories and provide detailed information about operations to access those subsidies