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GLM-5.3-Flash will likely handle 45% of your AI workloads (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: glm-5.3-flash, openrouter, chinese chips

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Apple Reportedly Testing Controversial Chinese Chips as Memory Supply Crunch Intensifies (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: apple, chinese chips, trump admin

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Lexar lists 32GB DDR5 memory with homegrown Chinese chips — 3,999 Yuan ($592) price undercuts hopes for cheaper CXMT-powered RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: lexar, ddr5, cxmt

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Trump Caught Between Apple and Micron in Fight Over Chinese Chips (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-25 | tags: trump, apple, micron

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The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-24 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: china chips, organ transplant, pig organs

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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Luke James | tags: z.ai, chinese chips, huawei ascend

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US gov't allows Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips — firm joins Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance in access to Hopper tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: chinese, chips, firms

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U.S. trade official says 'very few' Nvidia H200 AI chips have been shipped to China (cnbc.com)

2026-07-14 | by Kif Leswing | tags: china, chinese, chips

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DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-14 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: billion, billion valuation, bloomberg

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While the U.S. flip-flops on chip sanctions, China is building its own chip supply market — export controls are creating conditions for a Sino-Russian chip trade alliance (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: access, china, chinese

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Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips (venturebeat.com)

2026-06-30 | get AI Coding Assistant Tool → | tags: meituan, longcat-2.0, openrouter

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Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-20 | by Luke James | get Chinese Semiconductor Chips → | tags: sberbank, chinese chips, huawei ascend 950

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Nvidia disputes allegation it is preparing a custom version of Groq inferencing chip for China [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-18 | by Jon Martindale | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, groq, h200

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Leading PC manufacturers considering using Chinese memory chips, report claims — HP and Dell qualifying CXMT DRAM, Acer and Asus asking Chinese partners to source locally-made memory chips (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-05 | by Jowi Morales | get Memory chips → | tags: chinese, chips, cxmt

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China hasn't approved H200 imports yet — also confirms no new orders placed while Beijing decides (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-29 | by Stephen Warwick | get GPU → | tags: china, chinese, chips

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Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-28 | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: beijing, china, chinese

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Chinese companies reportedly considering sourcing H200 chips from the black market as chips held at the border — demand for Nvidia AI GPUs remain high despite political uncertainty (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-22 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: beijing, china, chinese

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Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: beijing, china, chinese

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Nvidia fires back at rumors it will require upfront payment from clients for H200 orders — company says that it ‘would never require customers to pay for products that they do not receive’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-13 | by Jowi Morales | get GPU → | tags: chinese, chips, government

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U.S. House passes bill to stop Chinese companies from accessing export-controlled American AI chips using offshore rental loophole — Remote Access Security Act effectively extends export controls to the cloud (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-13 | by Stephen Warwick | get Artificial Intelligence Chips → | tags: access, chinese, chips

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Beijing tells companies to pause H200 purchases — China govt deliberating terms for letting local tech companies buy US chips while still growing homegrown semiconductors (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-07 | by Jowi Morales | get Semiconductors → | tags: beijing, chinese, chips

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Trump administration announces new tariffs on Chinese chips and electronic components — but fresh sanctions won't take effect until 2027, and rates remain unknown (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Semiconductors → | tags: china, components, production

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Nvidia prepares shipment of 82,000 AI GPUs to China as chip war lines blur — H200 shipments with 25% tax to begin as US loosens restrictions (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: access, china, chinese

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U.S. pushes additional tariffs on Chinese chips to June 2027 (cnbc.com)

2025-12-23 | by Kif Leswing | get Semiconductors → | tags: china, dominance, filing

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How China Built Its 'Manhattan Project' To Rival the West in AI Chips (slashdot.org)

2025-12-18 | by Posted | get Artificial Intelligence Chips → | tags: china, chinese, chips

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Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-15 | by Ram Iyer | get Gaming GPU → | tags: china, chinese, chips

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DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-10 | by Mark Bergen | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, chinese, chips

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The Senate's new SAFE bill is set to curb access to advanced chips to China, but that won't slow down the AI war — training workloads still heavily rely on Nvidia, while alternatives remain inefficient (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Jon Martindale | get Nvidia → | tags: china, chinese, chips

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4 People Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China (wired.com)

2025-11-20 | by Paresh Dave | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: china, chinese, chips

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Four Indicted In Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China (wired.com)

2025-11-20 | by Paresh Dave | get Nvidia Chips → | tags: china, chinese, chips