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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: U.S. Chip Toolmakers Are Moving to Cut China From Supply Chains

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus, shares of nuclear-power producers tumble after regulators rejected a deal from Amazon to use more nuclear energy. And New York Times tech workers strike ahead of Election Day. Cordilia James hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's our TNB Tech Minute

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for Monday, November 4th.

0:34.6

I'm Cordelia James for the Wall Street Journal.

0:37.0

We're exclusively reporting that

0:38.8

U.S. chip toolmakers, including applied materials and lamb research, are telling suppliers

0:44.5

they need to find alternatives to certain Chinese components or risk losing their vendor status.

0:50.7

That's according to people familiar with the matter. The two Silicon Valley companies make

0:55.1

equipment for chips and are among the world's biggest manufacturers of these tools. Suppliers have

1:00.8

also been told that they can't have Chinese investors or shareholders, people familiar with the

1:05.6

matter said, industry executives say such moves are likely to raise costs because it won't be easy to find non-Chinese alternatives at similar prices.

1:14.7

Lamb Research said it adheres to U.S. export controls for companies in the chip manufacturing supply chain,

1:21.2

applied materials, so that it identifies alternative sources for components to make sure they are available.

1:28.0

Shares of nuclear power producers fell after regulators dealt a blow to an Amazon effort to use

1:33.5

more nuclear energy. Amazon is one of several tech giants turning to the power source to fuel

1:39.2

the rapid development of artificial intelligence. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, late Friday, blocked a request by Amazon and

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