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The chip is the terrain where the AI infrastructure race between American tech companies and China is fought.
Semiconductors sit at the base of every training cluster and inference deployment, and any cost friction introduced at that layer propagates up through the entire stack.
The United States is reportedly considering a fresh round of tariffs on semiconductors, a development that would land directly on that constraint.
Tech giants are in an accelerated buildout of AI infrastructure, positioned explicitly as a counter to China's own investments in the space.
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