Alibaba whips out AI chip to dodge Nvidia squeeze
China’s silicon brigade tries to fill the GPU hole with homebrew parts
Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has wheeled out a shiny new AI chip, hoping to plug the silicon hole left after Nvidia was kicked in the export rules by Uncle Sam.
US pulls plug on Samsung and SK Hynix’s China kit
Waiver yanked, fabs stalled, shares tanked
Washington has slammed the door shut on a loophole that let South Korea’s biggest chipmakers sneak US gear into their Chinese fabs without the usual bureaucratic hoops.
Singapore workers glued to AI
Asia dominates global rankings for AI dependency
Singapore’s workforce is the most AI-addicted in the world, with nearly three-quarters of its workers hooked on digital thinking machines to get anything done.
IBM and AMD plot quantum mashup
Two potentially dead and alive cats
IBM and AMD say they’re going to “build the future of computing” by welding quantum hardware to high-performance silicon, creating hybrid systems to crack problems too gnarly for either approach.
Samsung bets big on 2nm SF2P
Korean giant eyes redemption with second-gen GAA node
Samsung’s messy 3nm debut may soon be old news as attention shifts to its 2nm GAA roadmap.