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Asian markets sank with Wall Street on Thursday after a warning from the White House that it would target firms supplying China with key semiconductor technology, and Donald Trump's comments on crucial chip supplier Taiwan.

U.S. government wants to further restrict curbs for China's semiconductor sector as foreign companies still sell fairly advanced tools to Chinese entities.

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are down -0.79%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU24) are down -1.22% this morning as concerns over stricter U.S. restrictions on Chinese trade and semiconductor technology weighed on sentiment, while investors awaited a fresh batch of U.S. economic data and the next round…

Tokyo Electron unveils the Acrevia tool, which can improve patterning with gas cluster beam technology.

Japan's Rapidus project that brings together some of the world's biggest companies is the "last opportunity" to put the country's once-dominant semiconductor sector back on the global map, its chairman warned.

SK Hynix reportedly says 3D NAND chipmaking goes subzero as higher flash memory stacks must be produced at -70C temps.

Companies like Tokyo Electron and Kokusai are finding a big market in China for older chipmaking equipment.

Kioxia, Western Digital, and Tokyo Electron will present papers covering next-generation 3D NAND memory with over 300 – 400 layers.

When the US government blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co. as a national security threat, it cut the Chinese company off from buying American semiconductors and other critical technologies. Now Huawei may have a path around those restrictions.