Nvidia boss says China is racing ahead in AI
Huang warns West is stuck in pessimism
US tech giant Nvidia’s supreme dalek Jensen Huang reckons China is pulling ahead in the artificial intelligence race while the Land of the Free is stuck spinning its wheels in regulatory sludge.
AMD can ship Instinct MI308 AI chips to China
Meanwhile Nvidia’s H20 is stuck in export limbo
AMD has received export approval for its Instinct MI308 AI chips, a move that gives it a narrow but meaningful advantage over Nvidia in the tightly restricted Chinese AI hardware market.
China provides cheap juice for AI datacentres
Beijing cuts power bills for data centres that ditch Nvidia
China has decided that if its homegrown AI chips can’t beat Nvidia on power, it’ll just make electricity cheap enough not to care.
Trump shuts door on Nvidia's Blackwell chips for China
US blocks AI exports once again
Nvidia's hopes of sliding back into China’s lucrative AI market have been crushed, as President Trump confirmed that the company’s new Blackwell chips will not be cleared for export.
China freezes chip chemistry to slash defects by 99 per cent
Cryogenic trick gives Beijing’s fabs a leg-up
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way to stop chips from going pear-shaped during manufacture by literally freezing the process mid-flow.
China ships HBM3 as local chipmakers catch up
CXMT hands Huawei a taste of local HBM
China’s memory outfit ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has managed to get HBM3 samples out the door and into the hands of local AI firms, with Huawei among the first in line.
Google claims verifiable quantum advantage
‘Quantum Echoes’ algorithm
Search engine outfit Google says its quantum computer has achieved the first verifiable quantum advantage, running a new algorithm 13,000 times faster than one of the world’s top supercomputers.
Nexperia’s China arm tells staff to ignore Dutch bosses
Beijing’s patience snaps
Nexperia’s Chinese operation has effectively gone rogue, telling its workers they can bin any orders from its Dutch headquarters as the row between Beijing and The Hague blows up into open defiance.
TSMC smashes profit record again on AI chip frenzy
Monster demand for GPUs and HPC silicon
Taiwan’s semiconductor darling TSMC has once again bathed in the glow of the AI gold rush, reporting a massive 39.1 per cent jump in third-quarter profit and setting a fresh all-time record.
Apple’s cosies up to China again despite promises to Trump
Cook promises more cash for Beijing while pretending to love American manufacturing
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has once again pledged to pump more money into China, promising Beijing’s industry minister Li Lecheng that Job’s Mob will keep investing in the Middle Kingdom.