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Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads announced the MTT S4000, its latest AI graphics card, on December 19, 2023. Photo: Handout
China stock market

Moore Threads shares dazzle with fivefold jump in Shanghai debut

Moore’s shares began trading at 650 yuan amid a declining market, a 468 per cent jump from their initial public offering price of 114.28 yuan.

Artificial intelligence

Senators unveil bill to keep Trump from easing curbs on AI chip sales to China

Huawei

How Huawei could use a 2022 patent to make 2-nm-class chips without key tool

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US-China relations

Nvidia CEO meets Trump, says he’s not sure if China would accept H200 chips

He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks briefly to reporters in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: EPA
Artificial intelligence

Huawei-style ‘chip stacking’ seen as a path for China to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

With US curbs biting, experts say near-memory computing and chip stacking could narrow the AI hardware gap with Nvidia.

Nexperia

China, EU shift Nexperia strategy: let the companies work it out

Wang Wentao shifts focus to the boardroom but warns the Dutch government must still scrap the executive order and court ruling fuelling the crisis.

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Semiconductors

Wingtech says Nexperia’s headquarters remains silent on call for talks

In a statement, Wingtech reiterates its intention to fully regain its shareholder rights in the chipmaker.

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Nexperia’s factory in Dongguan, southern China’s Guangdong province. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Trump team considering selling Nvidia H200 chips to China, insiders say

While still in the early stages, the talks mark a big departure from the administration’s public stance on semiconductor export controls.

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Semiconductors

China Future Tech webinar: assessing the impact of the Nexperia saga

Post reporters discuss the dispute’s apparent resolution, what happens next and what it means for the future of Chinese investments abroad.

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US-China trade war

Exclusive | Top Democrat demands US probe into Chinese firms potentially supplying Nexperia

Letter by Raja Krishnamoorthi to US Commerce Department claims wafers made by China-based suppliers pose safety and reliability concerns.

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The head office of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in Nijmegen, Netherlands. A senior US Democrat has questioned the reliability of four Chinese semiconductor firms supplying the Dutch chipmaker. Photo: AP
China-EU relations

‘Show of goodwill’: Netherlands suspends Cold War-era act tied to Nexperia crisis

Crisis over Chinese-owned chipmaker eases a little, but major doubts still hang over the future of a company at war with itself.

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Nexperia produces around 100 billion semiconductors in Europe every year and an estimated 70 per cent of the wafers then go to Dongguan in southern China for testing and packaging, before being shipped to clients as legacy chips. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

How Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s waning influence in US-China chip war

The dispute around the Dutch chipmaker shows the erosion of Europe’s geopolitical neutrality in the face of escalating US-China rivalry.

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Semiconductors

Hong Kong-backed ‘Lion Rock’ chip boosts city’s semiconductor standing

The maker of the RISC-V chip, Shanghai-based StarFive, received an investment from the Hong Kong Investment Corporation in March.

China-EU relations

Nexperia civil war erupts as Chinese and Dutch arms trade blows

Fiery exchange raises tension further ahead of crunch government talks in the Chinese capital next week aimed at resolving the stand-off.

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The head office of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in Nijmegen, Netherlands. A war of words erupted on Friday between the company’s Chinese and Dutch arms. Photo: AP
Science

Quantum chip gives China’s AI data centres ‘1,000-fold’ speed boost: researchers

Emerging tech that uses light to boost computer power is already being used in aerospace, biomedicine and finance.

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Researchers at CHIPX pose for a photo with their high-performance 6-inch thin-film lithium niobate chip, an advance that is poised to accelerate progress in AI and quantum computing. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

Baidu unveils AI chips to boost China’s self-sufficiency drive

The M100 and M300 provide ‘powerful, low-cost and controllable AI computing power’ to support the nation’s self-reliance push, the firm says.

Semiconductors

Nexperia crisis: Beijing agrees to talks with Dutch officials in China

The announcement comes a day after the Netherlands indicated that shipments of Chinese-made Nexperia chips would soon resume.

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China trade

Nexperia saga sees wary German auto firms scramble to mitigate chip shortage

Volkswagen, Aumovio and ZF among companies eyeing either exemptions, alternate sources or temporary cuts as China weighs export relaxations.

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Chairman and CEO of Volkswagen Group China Ralf Brandstatter (centre) is seen at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Wednesday. A Volkswagen source said it will “take appropriate measures in response to further developments” amid the Nexperia semiconductor crisis that has roiled the auto chip supply chain. Photo: AFP
China trade

Nexperia fallout: chip spat reignites EU debate over Chinese investments

In aftermath of Netherlands’ controversial seizure, scrutiny looms over Chinese acquisitions, US influence and EU’s ability to balance security with open markets.

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China trade

China accuses Netherlands of fuelling chip crisis over Nexperia seizure

Beijing says The Hague’s interference in semiconductor firm exacerbates global supply-chain instability, despite recent trade concessions.

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Nvidia

Jensen Huang’s chimaek dinner left out Nvidia’s No 1 supplier. Why?

The question hanging over the Gangnam gathering was straightforward: why was Nvidia’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI chips, absent?

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (right) gave gifts to Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee (left) and Hyundai Motor Group’s Executive Chair Chung Euisun (centre) during a dinner meeting at a fried chicken restaurant in Seoul on October 30, 2025. Photo: Yonhap
US-China relations

Trump-Xi deal: China to suspend some rare earth curbs, probes on US chip firms

Beijing will also take steps to allow the Chinese facilities of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia BV to resume shipments.

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US President Donald Trump talks to China’s President Xi Jinping at the Gimhae Air Base in Busan on Thursday. Photo: TNS
United States

AI chip giant Nvidia becomes world’s first US$5 trillion company

The milestone comes three months after Nvidia reached the US$4 trillion mark, and is now equal to half the value of Europe’s Stoxx 600 index.

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Semiconductors

China Future Tech webinar: how Nexperia got caught in the US-China rivalry

A Post webinar discusses the context and implications of the Nexperia saga.

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Semiconductors

Nexperia China defies Dutch headquarters’ order to oust executive

The dispute escalates a geopolitical conflict that threatens to disrupt a global automotive chip supply chain.

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The logo of Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia seen at its German facility in Hamburg. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

Nexperia crisis: how US-China tensions disrupt a global chip supply chain

The chipmaker’s ‘developed in Europe, made in China’ business model has become ‘unsustainable’, analyst says.

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The building that houses Nexperia’s headquarters in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Photo: EPA
Semiconductors

Nexperia China tells employees to ignore orders from Dutch head office

Letter to employees of company owned by China’s Wingtech asserts that ‘independent’ mainland entity is the one that pays workers’ salaries.

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Semiconductors

China’s new hope in breaking reliance on foreign chipmaking machines

Advanced lithography remains a significant bottleneck for China, but a new company founded in February offers new optimism.

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