Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su on Thursday said the company has licenses to ship some of its MI 308 chips to China and is prepared to pay a 15% tax to the U.S. government if it ships them. Su made the remarks at a conference held by technology publication Wired in San Francisco.

I reported on China’s chip design progress last year and figured it made sense to make this an annual occurrence. I was present at the China Integrated

Baidu is turning its Kunlunxin chip unit into a key supplier of AI compute in China, easing Nvidia shortages and tying its hardware to ERNIE and cloud services.

Cambricon Technologies plans to triple AI chip production in 2026, aiming to capture market share from Huawei Technologies and fill the gap left by Nvidia’s (NVDA) forced exit from China.

President Donald Trump cast China as a central factor in his administration’s economic and national security strategy, arguing that tariffs, tightened technology rules, and new domestic manufacturing incentives had put the United States “in the hottest country anywhere in the world.

Beijing is asking U.S. semiconductor companies to submit sensitive data on their sales and operations in China as part of a continuing trade investigation into American chip makers. The Trade Remedy and Investigation Bureau under the Commerce Ministry on ...