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People queue up for hours outside Huawei’s flagship store in Shanghai on September 25, 2023, hoping to be able to buy the tech giant’s latest Mate 60 Pro mobile phone. (Photo by REBECCA BAILEY / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. chipmaking gear helped make the advanced processor in Huawei’s new premium smartphone

By Cagan Koc, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 04: AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su displays an ADM Ryzen 7040 series chip as she delivers a keynote address at CES 2023 at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 04, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs from January 5-8 and features about 3,100 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 100,000 attendees. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

AMD, like Nvidia, tried to make a weaker chip for the Chinese market—but Washington says it’s still too powerful

By Jane Lanhee Lee, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

Gina Raimondo speaking at a podium

Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are demanding Biden double the funds on hand for chips, Raimondo says

By MacKenzie Hawkins and Bloomberg

BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded onto a ship are seen stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on February 8, 2024. (Photo by AFP) / China Out (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden administration may restrict imports of Chinese EVs and their parts no matter where they are built

By MacKenzie Hawkins, Josh Wingrove, and others

An image of SK Hynix is seen on a wall at the company’s Bundang office in Seongnam on January 26, 2024. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker, South Korea’s SK Hynix, said on January 25, it had returned to profit after four consecutive quarters of losses driven by demand for chips used in artificial intelligence. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Indiana poised to win a $15 billion chip packaging plant from South Korea’s SK Hynix that could solve a major bottleneck in the U.S. supply chain

By MacKenzie Hawkins, Yoolim Lee, and others

Attendees play video games via Xbox cloud gaming at the Microsoft Inc. booth during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden administration wants cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft to investigate and report foreign clients developing AI apps on their platforms

By Courtney Rozen, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

Patrick Gelsinger, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., at the 2024 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The event typically doubles as a preview of how tech giants and startups will market their wares in the coming year and if early announcements are any indication, AI-branded products will become the new “smart” gadgets of 2024. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

U.S. to announce big grants for domestic chip plants in March, speeding up plans for Intel and TSMC

By Ian King, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

Joe Biden

Biden’s $52 billion bet on chips has a big problem—American semiconductor firms take twice as long to hire as anyone else

By MacKenzie Hawkins and Bloomberg

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during the Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communication Practices Conference in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. The conference includes overviews by academic experts of themes that are central to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) 2019 review. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Reducing inflation without triggering high unemployment is possible, Fed study says. The key is to ignore the lessons of the 1960s

By MacKenzie Hawkins and Bloomberg

Senators Mitch McConnell and Robert Duncan

Change to controversial crypto provision in infrastructure bill blocked in Senate

By Laura Davison, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

Senators Rob Portman and Kyrsten Sinema

Senators reach a bipartisan deal on controversial crypto requirements in the infrastructure bill

By MacKenzie Hawkins, Laura Davison, and others

Members of the Los Angeles Tenants Union protest against evictions and give out food for the homeless on February 8, 2021 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden’s allies fume over President’s slow action to extend eviction moratorium

By Nancy Cook, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others