US official says Nvidia and AMD will provide a share of revenue to the government in return for licences to sell advanced chips to China; the deal comes amid a push by Beijing for HBM chips

Lip-Bu Tan targeted over investments and a scandal at his former firm Cadence, found to have sold chip design products to proxies for a military university in China believed to be simulating nuclear explosions

The move is part of Trump's efforts to spur manufacturing in the US. There was also news that Apple will invest $100 billion in its home market

US President says additional tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will be revealed in about a week or so. "People love tariffs," he said in a TV interview

Nvidia says there are 'no backdoors' in its chips, days after news emerged that Cadence paid $140m to settle US charges it sold goods to a Chinese university simulating nuclear bombs

South Korea agreed to invest $350 billion in the United States in projects selected by Trump and to purchase energy products worth $100 billion under their trade framework deal

Tesla has signed multi-billion-dollar battery and chip deals with South Korea's LG Energy Solutions and Samsung, to cut reliance on China because of Trump tariffs

Chinese developers of large language models and artificial intelligence chip manufacturers including US-sanctioned Huawei, Biren, and Moore Threads will join hands to build an AI 'ecosystem'

China's top leaders could move this month to try to reduce the country's wasteful excess production in key sectors, but the hard decisions may have to be made by local officials

YouTube axes thousands of accounts set up by China, Russia and others in move to counter disinformation. Meta also cut millions of profiles for inauthentic or 'spammy' content

Xi’s comments have strengthened expectations that CCP officials will take steps to curb overcapacity in top industries

Beijing says it hopes the US 'can correct 'wrong' practices' on chip trade following an announcement from Nvidia chief Jensen Huang that would start selling H20 chips to China again