According to Bloomberg sources, the Biden government “strongly discourages” Intel from expanding its chip production in China due to security factors in order to alleviate the problem of chip shortages. If not blocked, these new production capacities were originally scheduled to go online before the end of 2022. Although Intel has not explicitly given up its plans to expand production in China, it is believed that there are no plans at the moment. In its statement, Intel itself did not clearly point to government pressure as the main reason for the suspension of the expansion plan, only saying that it...