Microsoft, AWS and Google are trying to drastically reduce China's role in their supply chains

As geopolitical tensions intensify between the U.S. and China, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are ramping up efforts to move production of their products and data centers outside of China, Nikkei reported , citing supply chain sources.

In particular, Microsoft wants to have up to 80% of the components needed to make its Surface notebooks and tablets, as well as its data centers, manufactured outside of China as soon as 2026, the report said. The scope of the change is “quite wide” and includes components and assembly for the company’s future notebooks and server products, Nikkei cited a supply chain source as saying.

The company is reportedly asking its existing partners to prepare manufacturing capabilities outside the country starting next year, and it is also pushing to m