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Mackenzie Hawkins

@mackhawk
49 posts
2025-07-15
Nvidia says it plans to resume H20 sales to China & that the US government has assured the company those shipments will be approved https://blogs.nvidia.com/... [image]
2025-07-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Nvidia plans to resume H20 sales to China after the US assured it AI chip shipments would be approved, reversing the Trump administration's stance from April

US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for its H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …

2025-07-09
New: Chinese firms aim to install ~115,000 advanced Nvidia chips in dozens of AI data centers. Construction is underway. DeepSeek wants to collaborate What's unclear is how they plan to get hardware that the US has effectively banned from sale to China 🧵https://www.bloomberg.com/ ...
2025-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Analysis: Chinese companies aim to install 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2025-07-08/latest-tariff-pause - shows-limits-of-trump-s-frenzied- dealmaking

2025-05-31
One result of doing China tech policy via individual company letters instead of public regs is that you end up with weird situations like this, where the US curbed some chip design software sales last Friday but didn't capture Synopsys until six days later https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-05-31 View on X
Reuters

Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report) Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Synopsys Halts China Sales After US Cracks Down On Chip Design Exports insideHPC : White H...

One result of doing China tech policy via individual company letters instead of public regs is that you end up with weird situations like this, where the US curbed some chip design software sales last Friday but didn't capture Synopsys until six days later https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-05-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Trump administration plans to expand Entity List restrictions to cover subsidiaries of Chinese companies, aiming to block workarounds via new offshoots

The Trump administration plans to broaden restrictions on China's tech sector with new regulations to capture subsidiaries of companies under US curbs.

2025-05-20
This project was first reported by Malaysia-China Insight & caught the attention of White House AI Czar David Sacks It's unclear whether it'll proceed as planned. Malaysia only distanced itself from the Huawei portion of the prepared remarks, not the overall announcement
2025-05-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Malaysia downplays its deal to use 3,000 Huawei chips to build a first-of-its-kind AI system by 2026, underscoring its delicate position in the US-China AI race

Malaysia declared it'll build a first-of-its-kind AI system powered by Huawei Technologies Co. chips, only to distance itself …

New: Malaysia on Monday touted a national AI system powered by 3000 Huawei Ascend chips When we asked for details Tuesday, the government retracted its Huawei remarks without explanation Free link to our story on Malaysia's place in the US-China AI race: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-05-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Malaysia downplays its deal to use 3,000 Huawei chips to build a first-of-its-kind AI system by 2026, underscoring its delicate position in the US-China AI race

Malaysia declared it'll build a first-of-its-kind AI system powered by Huawei Technologies Co. chips, only to distance itself …

2025-04-16
News: Dutch equipment giant ASML reported lower-than-expected orders, citing chip sector weakness in the quarter before US tariffs threatened to upend the industry Trump's chip tariffs probe includes semiconductor manufacturing equipment @sarahannjacob https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-04-16 View on X
CNBC

ASML reports Q1 net sales up 46% YoY to €7.74B, vs. €7.8B est., a €2.36B net profit, €3.94B net bookings, below €4.89B est., and warns of tariff uncertainty

Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday missed order expectations and said that uncertainty …

NEWS: Trump admin has effectively banned the sale of Nvidia H20 chips in China, the company said in a regulatory filing Aim is to address concerns that H20s “may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in China” Nvidia down about 5% in late trading https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-04-16 View on X
CNBC

SEC filing: Nvidia says it will record a $5.5B quarterly charge after new US rules to require a license to export the H20 chips to China; NVDA drops ~5%

Nvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations.

2025-04-03
Microsoft is pulling back on data center projects from London to Jakarta, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering AI & the cloud via @BrodyFord_ @dawnmlim @ByFarisMokhtar & Vinicy Chan https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-04-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Microsoft has halted talks for, or delayed development of, data center projects in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin

The software company has recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois …

2025-03-25
NEW: @jendeben & I wrote about the tech giants & foreign leaders trying to shape Trump's global chip strategy, as the US nears a compliance deadline for trade rules that could redefine tech statecraft Trump team is far from a consensus on how to proceed🧵 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-03-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: companies like Nvidia and many governments are trying to persuade Trump to loosen AI chip export curbs set for May, known as the “AI diffusion rule”

- Nvidia and Oracle pushing for full repeal of AI diffusion rule  — Companies must start complying with global restrictions May 15 X: @mackhawk X: Mackenzie Hawkins / @mackhawk : N...

2025-02-15
New: TSMC is open to taking a controlling stake in Intel's US factories, @ianmking & I are told Trump team floated a potential Intel deal in recent meetings w TSMC officials, who were receptive. Intel's stance is unclear. Talks are in very early stages https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal in which TSMC assumes control of Intel's foundry business

The Silicon Valley giant is trying to cut a deal it hopes would help it pull out of a yearslong slump.

New: TSMC is open to taking a controlling stake in Intel's US factories, @ianmking & I are told Trump team floated a potential Intel deal in recent meetings w TSMC officials, who were receptive. Intel's stance is unclear. Talks are in very early stages https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-02-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: TSMC is considering a controlling stake and fully operating Intel's US factories after a Trump team request, as Trump aims to boost US manufacturing

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @cdmasterzang : Make Taiwan Great Again! X: Scott Lincicome / @scottlincicome : “Intel's foundry operation lost more than $13 billion on $17.5 bil...

2025-01-14
> @JakeSullivan46 anticipates Trump will maintain new AI chip export controls that the White House unveiled today “I would be surprised if... they looked at the landscape as we've looked at it and said 'you know, we really don't need this at all'” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-01-14 View on X
Financial Times

The Biden admin unveils a new chip export rule that gives 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China

now the EU has shown concerns about the U.S. limits on how much AI chips certain EU states can buy.  —  ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Sung Kim / @sungkim : Commerce Secretary Gina R...

> @JakeSullivan46 anticipates Trump will maintain new AI chip export controls that the White House unveiled today “I would be surprised if... they looked at the landscape as we've looked at it and said 'you know, we really don't need this at all'” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-01-14 View on X
Wired

The US' new chip export rule enters a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump admin to listen to input, perhaps modify the rule, and then enforce it

The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.

2024-12-03
In response to new US chip curbs: - Beijing banned exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony & superhard materials; will place tighter controls on graphite - Chinese internet, semiconductor & auto industry groups urged caution when buying US chips https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-12-03 View on X
Financial Times

China bans shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, in a retaliation to new US chips curbs

Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries  —  China has banned shipments to the US of several …

2024-11-30
Japan is spending another $9.9 billion in chips and AI to keep pace with China and the US on technologies policymakers see as key to national security https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-11-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Japan allocates another $9.9B to boost its chip, quantum computing, and AI endeavors, with an undisclosed amount going to chip startup Rapidus

Bloomberg :

2024-11-26
Intel has reached a final deal for a nearly $7.9b Chips Act grant & will get at least $1b of that this year The award is smaller than what was proposed in March (not bc of Intel's financial woes, but rather bc of a military chips deal) Free link &🧵: 1/ https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-11-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US awards Intel up to $7.865B under the CHIPS Act to help build or expand chip plants in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon, including $1B+ later in 2024

Government grant is less than originally expected because the chip giant is also receiving separate funding for defense

2024-09-29
Beijing is discouraging domestic AI firms from buying Nvidia H20s in an effort to prop up Chinese chipmakers It's guidance, not an outright ban — China also doesn't want to hurt its own startups by fully cutting them off from the best (read: Nvidia) chips https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing Nvidia's H20 chips to help expand the country's semiconductor industry and counter US sanctions

- Nvidia can only sell slower AI chips to China due to US curbs  — Beijing is fostering domestic champions like Huawei, Cambricon

2024-09-28
Beijing is discouraging domestic AI firms from buying Nvidia H20s in an effort to prop up Chinese chipmakers It's guidance, not an outright ban — China also doesn't want to hurt its own startups by fully cutting them off from the best (read: Nvidia) chips https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing Nvidia's H20 chips to help expand the country's semiconductor industry and counter US sanctions

China also doesn't want to hurt its own startups by fully cutting them off from the best (read: Nvidia) chips https://www.bloomberg.com/... Paul Triolo / @pstasiatech : China Urges...

2024-09-04
New: Intel is hemorrhaging cash. It wants $ from the Chips Act, up to an $8.5b grant & $11b loan, ASAP Right now the company & Biden admin are stuck in a holding pattern — with no guarantee of when, or if, that money will be disbursed 🧵& free link: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-04 View on X
Bloomberg

The Biden administration's big bet on Intel to lead a US chipmaking revival is in trouble as Intel struggles to hit milestones to get CHIPS Act grants and loans

with no guarantee of when, or if, that money will be disbursed 🧵& free link: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Pranav S. / @pranavenstein : Why, Bloomberg, why? This is a <2x increase ...