Taiwan joins chip war escalation, blocks exports to Huawei and SMIC
Huawei has reportedly relied on shell companies to bypass US export controls
Huawei keeps trying to poach TSMC engineers by offering to triple their salaries
Huawei wants their expertise -- and trade secrets
China is spending more on chipmaking machines than anyone else in the world
China is doing everything it can to advance local manufacturing
Huawei wants to jump back into the global 5G phone race
The Chinese company has been developing chipmaking equipment and software to skirt US sanctions
China's top chipmaker claims that smartphone, PC demand has declined substantially
Mainly in China, Russia, and Ukraine
China's SMIC pours $8.87 billion into building a new chip plant in Shanghai
The planned capacity is 100,000 wafer starts per month
China will use aging chips while its semiconductor industry catches up
A bold plan to get around US export controls
Trump administration hits China's largest chip manufacturer SMIC with sanctions
A move likely to worsen US-China relations