June 19, 2026

China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs

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The bottleneck in the AI buildout is turning out to be a metal most people have never heard of. China has tightened its scrutiny of exports of indium phosphide, a compound essential to the high-speed optical chips that move data inside AI data centre...