US considers partial nationalisation of Intel
Socialism sneaks in the back door
Troubled Chipzilla might soon be partly owned by Uncle Sam if President Donald Trump gets his way.
Uncle Sam sneaks tracking devices into AI server shipments
Dell, Super Micro gear laced with spy kit as US hunts chip smugglers
The US has been tucking location trackers into shipments of advanced AI chips and servers, hoping to catch them being smuggled into China.
China leans on Nvidia chip buyers
Beijing pressures tech firms to explain why they’re not buying local silicon
The Middle Kingdom’s bureaucrats are making life more difficult for Nvidia by questioning Chinese tech giants about their reasons for ordering the US chipmaker’s H20 AI processors.
US consumers paying for Big Tech’s bargain power bills
Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward
State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.
US strong-arms TSMC to save Intel
Trump demands 49 per cent stake in Intel as price for tariff relief
The Trump administration is trying to force Taiwanese chip giant TSMC to buy nearly half of Troubled Chipzilla to secure a break on trade tariffs.
Nvidia slams idea of backdoors in AI chips
Kill switches would be a gift to hackers, not national security
Nvidia has come out swinging against the idea of embedding backdoors or kill switches in its AI hardware, calling the notion dangerous and unworkable.
Nvidia's H20 chips hit red tape gridlock in US-China shuffle
Licensing logjam stalls AI GPU shipments despite lifted ban
Nvidia might have dodged a US ban on its H20 AI chips for China, but it’s entangled in a licensing quagmire so deep it’s putting the brakes on exports.
TSMC to bring chip packaging tech to US
Taiwanese outfit bets big on CoWoS, SoIC, and CoW fab in Arizona
TSMC is plotting another big move in its American push, this time with plans to manufacture some of its most advanced chip packaging tech in the US to loosen its dependency on Taiwan.
TSMC’s US fab push still miles behind demand
"Regulation and red tape" hold back Arizona chip plans
TSMC’s multi-billion-dollar push into the US chip industry is nowhere near satisfying domestic demand, despite years of investment and political support.
Microsoft can’t keep EU data out of US paws
Cloud Act clashes with Europe’s fantasy of digital sovereignty
Software King of the World, Microsoft has admitted it cannot keep French citizen data safe from the reach of US authorities, even when it is locked up in EU data centres.
