U.S. officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron and ASML engineers from maintaining semiconductor gear in China, the report said. Some Trump officials also aim to further restrict the quantity and types of Nvidia chips that can be exported to China without a license,

Donald Trump's tariff plans on China could hurt several American companies that get a large portion of their supply chain or revenue from the country.

Hangzhou, China-based tech firm DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model on GitHub and its website. It reportedly did so for less than $6 million using Nvidia’s less-advanced H800 chips, owing to the export restrictions the US put in place on high-performance computing chips to China.

Mercurity Fintech Holding (MFH) announced the formation of a majority-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong, Aifinity Base. Aifinity plans to

WeRide shares have soared since the China-headquartered company went public on the Nasdaq last year. Nasdaq-traded shares in WeRide, a China-headquartered autonomous vehicle technology supplier, soared by another 28% on Tuesday,

Chinese tech giants Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance have ramped up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chips, driven by the rising adoption of DeepSeek's cost-efficient AI models, reinforcing Nvidia's dominance in China despite U.

Global shares traded cautiously higher on Tuesday, in light of growing evidence of a softening in the U.S. economy ahead of earnings from Nvidia, while the euro eased below the one-month highs that followed Germany's weekend election.

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares sagged Tuesday in Asia as worries over U.S.-China trade friction weighed on the outlook for the region. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 lost 1.1% to 38,336.73 after markets in Japan reopened from a holiday on Monday. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng gave up 0.6% to 23,196.33, while the Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% lower, to 3,368.24.