China put a 99.2% duty on a chemical chip fabs need

TECH NEWS China has imposed a cash deposit of up to 99.2% on imports of a Japanese chemical that chip fabs use to build the films inside logic and memory chips. The rate is close to prohibitive. It took effect on Tuesday. China's Ministry of Commerce published the preliminary determination on 7 September as Announcement No. 37 of 2026. Chan Ho-Him and Mari Yamaguchi reported the ruling and Tokyo's response for the Associated Press, which describes Japan as the leading producer of ultrapure dichlorosilane for chip fabrication. What the ruling says The published rates are not uniform. Shin-Etsu Chemical draws 99.2%. Denal Silane, a joint venture between Denka and Air Liquide, draws 80.8%. Every other Japanese exporter draws 99.2%. So the largest supplier gets the top rate, and so does anyone who might replace it. Dichlorosilane, known in fabs as DCS, feeds chemical vapour deposition. It lays down silicon and oxide... Copyright of this story solely belongs to thenextweb.com. To see the full text click HERE By Naveen Kumar Sales teams routinely face more leads than they have time to call, more follow-ups than they can track, and a steady stream of early-stage questions that eat into hours better spent closing deals. This is not a new problem. What has changed is the range of tools OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics—a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior of fluids like water and air. The announcement appears to demonstrate the stunning power for AI to advance mathematics. But it has been marred The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. 'We promised AI can do that,' Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. 'And they're like, we get it, except it's Plug-in hybrids registered in the EU in 2024 emitted an average 145 grams of CO2 per kilometre against an official rating of 24 grams, according to Transport and Environment's reading of onboard monitor data from 220,000 cars. Carmakers want the 2027 correction to that calculation cancelled, weeks before