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China Escalates U.S. Tech War With Micron Ban

When cutting foreign technology companies from Chinese supply chains, Beijing has long chosen to work obliquely or even secretly. Regulators would give executives back-room lectures, weigh them down with excessive […]




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U.S. Semiconductor Boom Faces a Worker Shortage

Maxon Wille, an 18-year-old in Surprise, Ariz., was driving toward Interstate 17 last year when he noticed a massive construction site: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company at work on its new […]




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Even as China Reopens, Security Visits Spook Foreign Businesses

With China’s pandemic restrictions dismantled and its leaders wooing executives flying into the country again, this was supposed to be a springtime of renewed investor confidence in the world’s second-biggest […]




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China Strikes Back at Micron Technology Even as It Signals Openness

When top Chinese officials held receptions for dozens of American and European business executives at back-to-back annual economic forums last week, the intended message was clear: China is open for […]




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An AI Start-Up Boomed, but Now It Faces a Slowing Economy and New Rules

Cutting costs to shorten the company’s timeline for profitability, he said, was essential to appease investors and possibly sell shares to the public in a few years. “We have to […]




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U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits

In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in two new factories to […]