The price of high-purity tungsten hexafluoride has surged over 200% year-on-year to over 1,700 yuan ($251) per kg due to supply bottlenecks and rising demand from the semiconductor industry. Japanese producers Showa Denko Kanto and Central Glass plan production suspensions in July, potentially disrupting supply to major chipmakers like Samsung Electronics.
The U.S. Treasury Department has published a list of medical devices requiring specific authorization for export to North Korea, tightening licensing requirements amid Pyongyang's nuclear and missile threats.
Experts suggest Taiwan's potential AI chip export controls on China are part of a 'tech cold war' and a barometer for US-Taiwan strategic alliance deepening. The move aims to prevent China's military advantage via AI and secure supply chains.
A US-China Business Council survey reveals that US export controls and sanctions are negatively impacting American companies, with nearly half affected and many losing sales to Chinese competitors. Tit-for-tat tariffs also hit over 72% of surveyed firms.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Senate Banking Committee invitation to testify on AI development, China business, and export controls, citing inability to attend, amid growing US scrutiny on AI technology sales to China.
China's Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yongqian stated on June 4 that the US's export controls, based on national security, harm Chinese businesses, disrupt international trade, and destabilize the global semiconductor supply chain. China urges the US to correct its discriminatory measures.
China's Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yongqian stated that the US's repeated abuse of export controls under the guise of national security has harmed Chinese enterprises, disrupted international trade order, and impacted the global semiconductor supply chain. China urges the US to correct its actions and cease discriminatory measures.
A new study proposes China's first framework for identifying critical technologies for export restrictions, suggesting 63 sensitive or globally competitive technologies may warrant controls as China shifts from being a target of restrictions to potentially imposing them.
China's AI chipmakers are striving for self-reliance against US export controls, debating between versatile GPUs and specialized ASICs to challenge Nvidia's dominance. Key players like Huawei, Cambricon, and Moore Threads are central to this design debate.
Japan's Economy Minister Ryosei Akazawa urged correction of arbitrary export controls at the APEC meeting in Suzhou, China, without naming specific countries, but implicitly targeting China's rare earth export restrictions.
Nvidia's CFO expressed uncertainty about generating revenue from China despite US license approvals for H200 shipments, as the company excludes China data center compute revenue from its outlook.
Anthropic's paper outlines two 2028 scenarios for US-China AI leadership: one where the US defends its compute advantage, setting democratic AI norms, and another where inaction allows China to overtake, enabling authoritarian AI governance.
SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor anticipate increased Q2 sales driven by AI demand and memory supply shortages, despite US export controls, with potential easing hoped from Xi-Trump meetings.
US President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing for a 2-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, marking their first meeting in nearly 9 years, to discuss contentious issues including trade, technology, and Taiwan.
In a conference centre in The Hague last October, a roomful of Asia-watching European officials and experts were gathered for a symposium on relations with China when news broke that Beijing was expanding export controls on rare earths and other minerals. Crucially, there was now an extraterritorial element: China could deny exports not only to direct buyers, but also restrict products made in third countries if they contained Chinese-origin rare earth content or controlled inputs. In practice,...
China has unveiled a new supercomputer built from entirely home-grown CPUs, with the aim of beating the world’s fastest machine while sidestepping US export controls. Known as Lingsheng or LineShine, it is designed to reach 2 exaflops – or two quintillion calculations per second – edging past the 1.8-exaflop El Capitan, the current record holder at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Unlike other exascale supercomputers, which rely on graphics processing units (GPUs),...
China has unveiled a new supercomputer built from entirely home-grown CPUs, with the aim of beating the world’s fastest machine while sidestepping US export controls. Known as Lingsheng or LineShine, it is designed to reach 2 exaflops – or two quintillion calculations per second – edging past the 1.8-exaflop El Capitan, the current record holder at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Unlike other exascale supercomputers, which rely on graphics processing units (GPUs),...
In global discourse, a script has been handed to us: the United States and China are locked in a “tech race”. But this is really a misnomer. True competition requires a level playing field. When one runner trips the other to ensure victory, it’s not a competition; it’s cheating. So, when Washington deploys an arsenal of sanctions, export controls and diplomatic strong-arming to hamstring China’s technological ascent, it is not competing. It is an act of suppression. This reflects a deliberate...
Japan has overhauled its export control regime to allow military equipment exports that serve Tokyo's security interests, a move Kyiv hopes to benefit from as Ukraine seeks continued support. The policy change maintains controls on exports to conflict zones but creates exceptions linked to Japan's concerns about China's growing military power and the Taiwan situation. Japanese territory lies within 110km of Taiwan, fueling Tokyo's fears that a Chinese seizure of the island could drag Japan into conflict.
The UK government will unveil new export controls on Wednesday requiring manufacturers to obtain licences for goods destined for countries suspected of acting as staging posts for Russian-bound exports. The measures aim to prevent sanctions evasion and undermine Putin's war machine in Ukraine. Business minister Chris Bryant said the controls would have been used on dozens of occasions previously, after concerns were raised about UK carbon fibre equipment being exported to an Armenian firm with links to Russia's military production.
