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China holds up Nvidia chip imports while pushing domestic alternatives

A South Korean report links delayed approvals with Chinese chipmaking ambitions, US export-control pressure and a Malaysian customs seizure.

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0:20SMEE unveils a lithography scanner model as China pursues domestic semiconductor equipment.
1:49The report examines allegations that restricted Nvidia AI chips reached China.
4:27US lawmakers seek Huang's testimony and stronger restrictions on semiconductor exports to China, the correspondent reports.
7:22Malaysian customs seize AI servers suspected of being smuggled to evade export restrictions.
9:05CXMT reportedly declines Apple's supply approach to prioritize domestic demand.

China is withholding approval for Nvidia AI chip imports while accelerating efforts to supply its own semiconductor industry, South Korea's Korean Broadcasting System, through KBS News, reports. The upload's headline says the hold-up has left 600,000 Nvidia chips stranded.

The compilation connects two pressures on the chip trade: calls in Washington for tighter restrictions on exports to China, and Beijing's drive to reduce dependence on foreign technology. It opens with China's rejection of espionage allegations discussed in the broadcast.

Reporting from Beijing, correspondent Lee Joong-geun describes Chinese equipment maker Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment, or SMEE, unveiling a model of a new lithography scanner. These machines use light to transfer intricate circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers. The report presents the development as part of China's effort to build alternatives to equipment supplied by Dutch manufacturer ASML; showing a model is not the same as demonstrating production capacity.

An interview with a former Taiwanese National Security Council official supplies a qualification: Chinese AI chip production takes longer than at Taiwan's TSMC, the official says, but China has both the time and the financial resources to persist.

The Washington segments describe allegations concerning restricted chips reaching China and mounting congressional demands for Jensen Huang to appear for questioning. Correspondent Kim Kyung-soo reports on legislative efforts to tighten export controls, alongside President Donald Trump's friendly stance toward Huang and planned meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The compilation identifies Huang as Nvidia's CEO at the time of its reports; he has since resigned.

A separate dispatch from Hanoi turns to Malaysian customs officers' seizure of AI servers suspected of being smuggled to evade export restrictions. The segment raises, rather than establishes, whether China was their intended destination.

The final report says Chinese memory manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, declined an Apple supply approach to concentrate on domestic demand and semiconductor self-reliance.