Nexperia’s China arm tells staff to ignore Dutch bosses
Beijing’s patience snaps
Nexperia’s Chinese operation has effectively gone rogue, telling its workers they can bin any orders from its Dutch headquarters as the row between Beijing and The Hague blows up into open defiance.
TSMC smashes profit record again on AI chip frenzy
Monster demand for GPUs and HPC silicon
Taiwan’s semiconductor darling TSMC has once again bathed in the glow of the AI gold rush, reporting a massive 39.1 per cent jump in third-quarter profit and setting a fresh all-time record.
Apple’s cosies up to China again despite promises to Trump
Cook promises more cash for Beijing while pretending to love American manufacturing
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has once again pledged to pump more money into China, promising Beijing’s industry minister Li Lecheng that Job’s Mob will keep investing in the Middle Kingdom.
China pulls the rug under US chip industry
Rare earth clampdown could pull the plug on America’s AI supply chain
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are twitching nervously as China’s new rare earth export restrictions threaten to upend the global chip industry and potentially block firms like TSMC from selling semiconductors to American companies.
Beijing aims at Qualcomm in chip wars
China ramps up tech retaliation ahead of Trump–Xi meeting
Beijing is turning the screws on Washington’s chipmakers, launching a fresh antitrust probe into Qualcomm just as rare-earth export restrictions and trade jabs pile up ahead of a planned meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
China tightens the screws on chip imports
Beijing serious about cutting Nvidia out of its tech diet
China has gone full throttle in enforcing tighter controls on semiconductor imports, as the Middle Kingdom pushes to purge its tech sector of American hardware, particularly from Nvidia.
Brussels plots AI independence drive
AI strategy aims to cut ties with US and Chinese tech
Brussels is preparing to throw itself into the artificial intelligence race with a plan to reduce its reliance on foreign companies and promote homegrown platforms instead.
China boots out Euro telecom kit
Nokia and Ericsson shoved aside
China is cutting back on the use of European telecom gear as President Xi Jinping pushes to remove western technology from the country’s critical infrastructure.
Chinese government tells firms to bin Nvidia AI chips
Beijing blocks RTX Pro 6000
China has told some of its biggest tech outfits, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to stop messing about with Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 chips.
Zuckerberg’s new Ray-Ban specs flop on stage
Meta boss bets on ‘superintelligence’ while glasses can’t even take a call
Mark Zuckerberg has shown off Meta’s first smart glasses with a built-in screen, insisting that wearables capable of replacing smartphones are the future of computing, however they did not work very well on their first outing.