Efforts by the Beijing-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, to break through innovation barriers have landed it in a geopolitical tech battle. Computer Chips, International Relations, Embargoes and Sanctions, Factories and Manufacturing, Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, United States International Relations, Corporations, International Trade and World Market, Computers and the Internet, Commerce Department, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, NVIDIA Corporation, Intel Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China, Shanghai (China) Efforts by the Beijing-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, to break through innovation barriers have landed it in a geopolitical tech battle. NYT > Business