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Nexperia’s Dutch headquarters blamed its China unit for any failure to stabilize wafer shipments to customers, three Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth after making an emergency switch to a backup spacecraft

SMIC is testing a domestically built immersion DUV lithography system developed by Yuliangsheng and capable of 28nm-class process technology. But while it is said that the tool could be used to make 7nm or even 5nm-class chips with multipatterning, it remains to be seen whether this is going to happen…

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) faces mounting pressure in China as Beijing accelerates domestic chip production, with Huawei, SMIC, and AI startups ramping capacity and optimizing systems around local hardware, threatening a market that once accounted for more than 13% of the U.S. chipmaker's revenue.

Despite U.S. sanctions, Huawei's Kirin 9020 is built by SMIC on a 7nm-class process and integrates a fully in-house 5G modem supported by a domestic FEM.

Just days after demanding that Intel's CEO step down over alleged conflicts tied to China, Trump met with him in the White House — a whiplash reversal that sent the company's stock soaring.

While the U.S. recently eased export restrictions on advanced semiconductors by firms like Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a leading Chinese chipmaker has declared that its domestic market is already substituting foreign alternatives.

Legislators criticize the U.S. government for allowing AMD and Nvidia to sell AI GPUs to China again, but instead of reinstating the ban, they call for new export rules based on what China can build itself.

China has made progress in advanced chipmaking, but many ambitious fab projects failed due to lack of expertise, poor planning, and U.S. export restrictions — leaving behind numerous costly but unused 'zombie fabs' across the country.

Taiwan's blacklisting of 601 Chinese firms, including Huawei and SMIC, over national security concerns have provoked fierce condemnation from Beijing, which threatened retaliatory measures.