Washington is also pushing the Netherlands to stop ASML from maintaining and servicing equipment it sold to China before the Dutch chip export curbs came into effect

The US Justice Department also said the bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok would put the government in a stronger legal position than if the app was simply banned

TikTok and US representatives took shots at each other over everything from whether a new bill calls for a ban on the app to whether the ByteDance-backed firm should call on its users to push back against it

The employee, a Chinese national, stole details about chips and software that helps power a supercomputer "capable of executing at the cutting edge of machine learning and AI technology"

The European Commission said increasing imports from China risked injuring the region's carmakers at a magnitude "that would be difficult to repair”

The Chinese firm said it had ended its lawsuits against Amazon in Germany over patented technology related to wifi and video playback

China already has ambitious plans for long-term lunar habitation, starting with plans to land its first taikonauts on the Moon to using 3D printing technology to construct buildings on its surface

Both firms have seen their market shares squeezed by local rivals such as smartphone-maker Huawei and electric vehicle giant BYD, while a larger economic slowdown shadows China

Reports of BYD’s plans to expand production in Mexico spurred speculation that the EV giant was looking for a way into the US car market

Chinese cloud firms have previously told Nvidia they don’t want its slower AI chips and that they would prefer using homegrown chips from companies such as Huawei

China’s dominance in the green technology industry means the world would have to pay up an additional $6 trillion for its energy transition without cheap Chinese supplies, new research says

Local governments in Shanghai and Anhui will fund a variety of semiconductor-related projects this year — ranging from the development of DRAM chips to building facilities for chipmaking and its tools