Get the latest tech news

Who's Winning America's 'Tech War' With China?


In mid-2021 Ameria's National Security Advisor set up a new directorate focused on "advanced chips, quantum computing, and other cutting-edge tech," reports Wired. And the next year as Congress was working on boosting America's semiconductor sector, he was "closing in on a plan to cripple China's.....

In a phone call with President Biden this past spring, Xi Jinping warned that if the US continued trying to stall China's technological development, he would not "sit back and watch." Already, China has answered the US export controls — and its corresponding deals with other countries — by imposing its own restrictions on critical minerals used to make semiconductors and by hoovering up older chips and manufacturing equipment it is still allowed to buy. According to a recent New York Times investigation, some of the Chinese companies that have been barred from accessing American chips through US export controls have set up new corporations to evade those bans.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of America

America

Photo of China

China

Photo of tech war

tech war

Related news:

News photo

China fires ICBM into Pacific Ocean in first such public test in decades as regional tensions flare

News photo

Apple opens lab in China amid fierce competition with Huawei

News photo

Indonesia asks Apple, Google to block China's Temu to protect small merchants