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 centres, in a move that threatens to slow the very infrastructure the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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June 19, 2026 at 8:22 AM
China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
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