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New restrictions on the use of American products, imposed by the Commerce Department on Chinese telecommunications equipment provider Huawei Technologies, have been described as arbitrary and pernicious by the company.

In what will be seen as a win for US President Donald Trump, the chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is set to announce that it will be opening a factory in Arizona.

The United States appears to be moving ahead with new proposals to tighten the conditions for American semiconductor companies to do business with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, with cabinet officials agreeing at a meeting on Wednesday to tighten things up.

Faced with a lack of American parts for assembling its smartphones, the Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has now started building its devices with components sourced elsewhere.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has unveiled its first AI inference chip developed by T-Head under the Alibaba DAMO Academy, an initiative it says will accelerate the speed of machine learning tasks – and lead technology development and scientific research.

A former Apple official has cast further doubt on a Bloomberg story about alleged Chinese spying through the implant of chips on server motherboards made by US company Supermicro Computer. Ex-general counsel Bruce Sewell said the FBI had told him it had no knowledge of any probe into such an incident, as claimed by Bloomberg.

Chip maker Qualcomm has fired a broadside against Apple, accusing the latter of "a campaign of false promises, stealth and subterfuge” in the long-running patent-infringement battle between the two firms.

Dominant PC chip manufacturer Intel today announced a US$7 billion investment in a new semiconductor plant. The announcement was made from the White House Oval Office with chief executive Brian Krzanich standing next to President Donald Trump.

Intel has shored up its growth strategies by buying rival chipmaker Altera as it looks to expand into new market segments, primarily the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) market.

The automotive, LED lighting and home consumer segments are predicted to drive a large part of growth of 30% in the semiconductor device portion of the global Internet of Things semi-conductor market over the next five years.

Tech powerhouse IBM will spend US$3 billion on semiconductor research and development in the next five years, despite rumours the company is considering selling its chip-manufacturing arm.

Chipmaker AMD is aiming for substantial energy efficiency gains in its products over the rest of the decade.

Vivid Sydney festival might be hosting some of the world's biggest bands and musicians but it's also welcoming a giant interactive robot, powered by Intel.

Chip giant Intel has unveiled a new high-end processor, the Xeon E7 v2, designed for "mission critical computing" in a bid to better deal with big data.

One of the biggest announcements of CES has come in one of the tiniest of forms - Intel has revealed a miniature computer the size of an SD card.

Apple is again on the move, this time acquiring Israel-based motion technology company PrimeSense for a reported US$350 million.

Aussie mega talent Flume has joined forces with Intel to create a robot band, producing an exclusive track that showcases some impressive capabilities of Intel-powered tablets.

While all the talk has been around Intel's all-powerful Haswell chips, future Android tablets with new Atom chips will be as low as $100, Intel said today.

Shipments of millions of computers and smartphones, including the next iPhone, could face delays of up to six months following a massive inferno at a Chinese factory.

Apple has finally signed a deal with an alternative chip manufacturer for its iPhones and iPads, according to reports.