SnapshotsSep 18, 2025 | 21:33 GMT
China's Chip Advances Increase Beijing's Leverage in Talks With the U.S.
Although still plagued by a handful of technological bottlenecks and scalability constraints, China's domestic AI software and semiconductor supply chain is growing in sophistication, giving China confidence to take more aggressive action against Western technology companies. On Sept. 15, China's antitrust regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulation, said American semiconductor giant Nvidia had violated the country's anti-monopoly law in relation to its 2020 acquisition of Israeli-American networking product company Mellanox. Later that week, Chinese authorities reportedly pressed Chinese companies to halt testing and placing orders for Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D graphics processing units, one of the lower-performance chips Nvidia designed for the Chinese market to comply with U.S. export controls. These moves came alongside several recent steps forward for China's overall semiconductor supply chain. The Financial Times reported Sept. 17 that China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., or SMIC, had recently begun testing a deep ultraviolet immersion lithography machine developed
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