The Chinese president also warned his Dutch counterpart against restricting chip ties with Beijing, amid increasing pressure from the United States

China leads the world in the number of patents filed for quantum computing technology but still lags behind the United States in terms of capability

Sources say the meeting was deliberately scheduled separately from the China Development Forum held this week, where an event between Premier Li Qiang and visiting foreign CEOs was axed

The team presented the groundbreaking chips at the biggest integrated circuit industry event of the year

US chipmakers Intel and AMD, plus software giant Microsoft are likely to be hit hard as China ramps up its push to replace foreign tech with locally made products, analysts say

Korean chipmaker plans to build a cluster of four fabrication plants in Gyeonggi near Seoul, with work to begin next year on the $90-billion project, which could be the "largest fab complex in the world"

Vice Commerce Minister Guo Tingting said "China will fully guarantee national treatment for foreign companies", but did not explain how it would do that

The guidance from Beijing also asks authorities and agencies to shun Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made software in favour of domestic options

China's push for self-sufficiency in the computer chip supply chain was a noted feature of the annual Semicon China exhibition in Shanghai this week

US lawmakers were already looking to cut SMIC off from US tech imports after it produced the surprisingly high-end chip for Huawei’s latest handset

Micron, one of the two suppliers of top-end chips to Nvidia along with South Korea's SK Hynix, added nearly $19 billion to its market value this week

Nvidia CEO downplayed the risk of conflict and said he saw little chance of being forced to move away from working with Taiwan's TSMC