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ASML sells its large and ultra-expensive machines that print circuit patterns onto silicon wafers to companies like TSMC, Samsung and Intel.

Hot chips: The split that sparked a $97 billion meltdown

It is an industry crucial to the 21st century, but two of its biggest players are going in opposite directions.

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China just took a $300b bite out of Apple. It could be a sign of things to come

China is making life difficult for Apple ahead of the release of the new iPhone. It isn’t a coincidence.

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The new Huawei phone represents a new high-water mark in China’s technological capabilities.

Why this new Chinese phone has rattled the US

The low-key launch of a new Chinese phone set off a scramble to unravel its mysteries. It is also sure to have sent tremors through Washington.

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Visitors walk past a Huawei store at the Wushang Dream Plaza mall, the world’s largest single shopping mall, in Wuhan.

‘Untrustworthy’: US bans Chinese technology from Huawei, others

“These new rules are an important part of our ongoing actions to protect the American people from national security threats involving telecommunications.”

Huawei were paid $6.6 million for the axing of its Metronet contract.

WA government waited six months before revealing $121 million Metronet cost blowout

In a budget estimates hearing on Tuesday, it was revealed a new deal worth $327 million with Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia was signed on December 22 last year.

  • Hamish Hastie
The WA government will pay a Huawei led consortium $6.6 million over a failed Metronet contract.

Axed Huawei Metronet contract to cost WA taxpayers $6.6 million

Transport Minister Rita Saffioti revealed in parliament on Tuesday the government had also entered into a $327 million contract with Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia and Networks Australia.

  • Hamish Hastie
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A man looks at his mobile phone in front of Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Huawei is tipped as the frontrunner to build the country’s 5G network.

‘No concrete proof’ of espionage: Malaysia on verge of Huawei 5G deal

Banned by the United States and Australia and shut out by other western nations, Huawei is ramping up its 5G push into south-east Asia.

  • Chris Barrett
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull disputes Peter Dutton’s version of events.

Dutton says he threatened to quit cabinet unless Turnbull banned Huawei

Cabinet Minister Peter Dutton says he threatened to resign from Malcolm Turnbull’s ministry in order to pressure him into banning Huawei from the 5G network.

  • Peter Hartcher
President Xi Jinping made it his personal mission to place Huawei at the centre of the global internet.

Huawei? No way! Why Australia banned the world’s biggest telecoms firm

Upgrading Australia’s communications network meant our national security experts had to get to grips with tech titan Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government. A ban would infuriate Chinese leaders. The alternative was worse.

  • Peter Hartcher
Huawei was banned from supplying equipment to Australia’s 5G network in 2018.

China could have ordered Huawei to shut down Australia’s 5G

A senior spy says the main risk posed by Huawei’s involvement in Australia’s 5G system was not Chinese spying but that Beijing could order the company to disconnect the network altogether.

  • Peter Hartcher

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