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.
Huawei wants to kill PCIe, TCP/IP and NVLink
Chinese giant pitches UB-Mesh as a single unifying protocol
Huawei has rolled out a grand plan to scrap half the data centre’s plumbing and replace it with its shiny new UB-Mesh protocol.
Huawei working on HBM-free AI SSDs
Chinese giant eyes solid-state alternative to high-bandwidth memory
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Huawei is cooking up a new type of memory aimed at AI workloads that could ditch traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
DeepSeek’s R2 model delayed
Beijing’s homegrown chip dream still can’t train properly
Chinese AI outfit DeepSeek has been forced to eat humble pie after its shiny new model flopped on Huawei’s Ascend chips, dragging a planned May launch into the long grass and handing rivals the chance to surge ahead.
China leans on Nvidia chip buyers
Beijing pressures tech firms to explain why they’re not buying local silicon
The Middle Kingdom’s bureaucrats are making life more difficult for Nvidia by questioning Chinese tech giants about their reasons for ordering the US chipmaker’s H20 AI processors.
Why Huang giving Trump a kick back was Nvidia's only move
It is unclear if it is actually legal
Nvidia's CEO's Jensen Huang half-trillion-dollar "carrot" to Donald Trump appeared to get the president to turn a blind eye to his exporting chips to China, proving where diplomacy fails a good kick-back will always succeed.
Trump’s UAE chip deal stalls over China threat
National security fears threaten Nvidia’s billion-dollar AI bonanza
A deal to ship billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI chips to the United Arab Emirates is stuck in the mud as Trump administration officials squabble over national security risks.
China's GPU hopefuls eye IPOs
Moore Threads and MetaX want your yuan
Two of China’s homegrown GPU outfits, Moore Threads and MetaX, are apparently getting ready to shake the tin at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
DeepSeek’s tech fuelling China’s military
Avoiding US export controls
A senior US official has accused DeepSeek of aiding the PRC’s military and intelligence operations by using Southeast Asian shell companies to sidestep US semiconductor export controls.
Huawei crows over China’s FTTR lead
Ultra-connected workforce
Huawei chair Xu Zhijun [pictured] reckons China’s fibre-to-the-room rollout is leaving the rest of the world in the dust.