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South Korean and Taiwanese chip companies have obtained an additional year's extension to ship advanced chip technology and related equipment to China, the Nikkei Asia website claims.

India has banned the import of laptops, tablets and some PCs with immediate effect unless one has a valid licence from the authorities.

In what is a major blow to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspirations to make India a force in the semiconductor space, Taiwanese giant Foxconn has pulled out of a deal with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta.

An Indian journalist, who is also a science and free software activist, has dismissed the deal which India signed with American firm Micron Technology recently, calling it simply a PR exercise.

Restrictions on semiconductor exports to China, announced by the US on 7 October, will also affect Australia, an academic says in an op-ed for Australian think-tank, the Lowy Institute.

The new American rules restricting sales to China of semiconductors and the equipment needed to make them will affect Washington more than Beijing in the long run, a prominent American economist claims.

Finnish telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia has pulled the plug on its participation in the US-backed Open Radio Access Network Alliance [corrected], a grouping that aims to develop software for running 5G networks, according to a report on the Asia Times website.

A technologist and inventor has poured cold water on the oft-touted notion that the Open Radio Access Network Policy Coalition — better known as the Open RAN coalition — will produce anything in the short term to replace products from Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, which the US and many of its allies have banned from their 5G networks.

A group of academics and ex-officials who are close to the Biden camp have suggested that the US co-operate with China rather than confront Beijing in many fields and also give Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies a role in the global build of 5G networks.

The American semiconductor industry will not survive a tech war with China, both US and Chinese tech industry sources have told the Asia Times, with the only party believing that Washington will prevail being the Trump administration.

Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson claims that its products meet relevant requirements set by the Australian Government. The company was responding to a query as to why its partner in China, Panda Electronics, has been placed on a list drawn up by the US Department of Defence and said to contain firms that are either owned or controlled by the Chinese military.