chips

Taiwan pledges chip talks and investment in bid to ease Trump’s concerns

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TAIPEI —  Taiwan President Lai Ching-te pledged on Friday to talk with the United States about President Donald Trump’s concerns over the chip industry and to increase U.S. investment and buy more from the country, while also spending more on defense. Trump spoke critically about Taiwan on Thursday, saying he aimed to restore U.S. manufacturing … Read more

US Commerce Department Said to Be Probing DeepSeek’s Alleged Use of Restricted AI Chips

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The US Commerce Department is looking into whether DeepSeek – the Chinese company whose AI model’s performance rocked the tech world – has been using US chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China, a person familiar with the matter said. China’s DeepSeek last week launched a free assistant it says uses less … Read more