At an Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump dangled an offer to Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia. Mr. Trump said there would be a price for granting Nvidia the licenses it needed to sell artificial intelligence chips to China. “I want 20 percent,” Mr. Trump said. “Will you make it 15?” Mr. Huang asked.

WASHINGTON — Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT) and Brad Schneider (D-IL) introduced legislation to halt counterfeit and pirated imports into the United States. The bill changes how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can share the packing and shipping information of suspected counterfeit products with key intellectual property rights holders...

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the United States will impose a tariff of about 100% on imports of semiconductors but offered up a big exemption - it will not apply to companies that are manufacturing in the U.S. or have committed to do so.

The semiconductor industry’s rollercoaster year continues with another major development. President Donald Trump said on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday that his administration is planning to announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips as soon as next week. However, the specifics of these tariffs remain unclear.

Two Chinese nationals – one of them an illegal alien – have been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging they knowingly exported to China tens of millions of dollars’ worth of sensitive microchips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers to specialized ASICs being fair game. More recently, retro components that were considered obsolete decades ago are now becoming increasingly popular, with the unijunction transistor (UJT) a surprising example of this. 

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are a critical but often overlooked component of the semiconductor industry. This interactive graphic and the full report examine the highly concentrated and globalized FPGA supply chain, highlighting key vulnerabilities and strategic chokepoints.

Material shortages for German manufacturers of electrical equipment increased significantly in July. In a recent survey by the ifo Institute, 12.7% of the companies surveyed reported bottlenecks – compared to just 5.7% in April. “This is probably due to the Chinese export and trade restrictions on certain rare earths,” says Klaus Wohlrabe, Head of Surveys at ifo.

A new book explores the emergence of China as a hub for the trade in counterfeit goods, and lays out the tactics used by those in the illegal trade to access markets and evade detection by the authorities. Counterfeited in China: The Operations of Illicit Businesses, authored by Rutgers University professor Ko-Lin Chin, is based on face-to-face interviews with counterfeiters...

TURNBERRY, Scotland/EDINBURGH, July 27 (Reuters) - The Trump administration will announce the results of a national security probe into imports of semiconductors in two weeks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday, as President Donald Trump suggested higher tariffs were on the horizon.