France is ramping up efforts to secure a larger share of the global semiconductor market, signaling deeper collaboration with Taiwan, home to some of the world’s leading chip manufacturers. Thomas Courbe, Director General for Enterprise at the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, outlined France’s ambitious plans to strengthen ties and boost domestic semiconductor production.

In the AI computing era, nearly all leading developers of large language models (LLMs) are racing to stockpile Nvidia GPUs. According to TechInsights, Nvidia dominated the data center GPU market in 2023, commanding a 98% share and leaving a mere 2% for its competitors.

Overall automobile sales began to decelerate, but electric vehicle (EV) sales remained in robust growth in China in the first half of 2024.