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The FCC under Brendan Carr has used its new supply-chain blocking power for the first time, barring two gadgets from authorization because they contain a HiVision Hi3516CV610 camera SoC deemed a 'foreign surveillance chip' — a precedent that threatens any hardware relying on covered-list Chinese chips.
Research finds thousands of servers have exploitable BMCs with externally exposed risk (86k exposed, 54% with critical flaws; up to 75k vulnerable to CVE-2013-4786; internal scans show 29% vulnerable), plus actionable mitigations and an open-source scanner.
EU's plan to purge high-risk vendors under CSA2 could cost Europe €30-40B in direct replacements, with broader capex, pricing, and 6G rollout risks.
CXMT, China’s top DRAM producer, is pursuing a historic Shanghai IPO backed by roughly $8.6B in pre-IPO funding, while expanding capacity toward 350k DRAM wafers/month and pursuing HBMs, all within a heavy regulatory backdrop and potential price disruption in memory markets.
HBM memory is scaling to multi-layer stacks with high capacities (HBM4E up to ~1 TB per GPU) and complex packaging, while regulatory headwinds and China subsidies are shaping supply dynamics.
Huawei’s Ascend ramp hinges on foreign die banks and HBM imports; domestic capacity could scale, but export controls and HBM supply constraints are the critical near-term bottlenecks.
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