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China has hit back at the US and its allies over their moves to restrict Beijing's chip-making ambitions, placing curbs on exports of gallium and germanium.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia has announced a breakthrough in chip manufacturing that brings accelerated computation to the field of computational lithography right as current processes reach the limits of physics. The advance allows semiconductor leaders like ASML, TSMC, and Synopsys to accelerate the design and manufacturing of their next-gen chips.

The automotive and communications sectors are the two most likely to be hit by business disruptions due to semiconductor shortages being compounded by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the technology analyst firm Gartner says.