Items tagged with China
After releasing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a cut-down version of the regular Radeon RX 9070, to the Chinese market, it's said AMD is readying a revised model that will bring more VRAM to the table. It's not clear if any other changes will be made, but if the unofficial information proves...
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AMD and NVIDIA have reportedly agreed to pay the United States government 15% of all revenues derived from AI chip sales to China, thereby giving the green light for the former to begin shipping Instinct MI308 accelerators and the latter...
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Many pundits celebrated the hiring of Lip-Bu Tan to replace Intel's ousted chief executive officer (CEO) earlier this year, but if U.S. President Donald Trump has his way, Tan's tenure as the man in charge of one of the biggest...
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Chinese scientists and military strategists are actively developing advanced countermeasures to neutralize what Beijing views as the growing threat of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network, including proposals for space-shooting lasers...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which used to routinely make headlines over net neutrality, is now preparing to ban the use of any Chinese technology or equipment in undersea telecommunications cables that connect to the...
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NVIDIA's stock price is climbing this morning, and it's no doubt the result of the chip designer confirming it has the White House's preliminary approval to resume selling H20 chips to China. Announced in a blog post, NVIDIA said it is in...
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It's well-known by now that virtually everyone in the hardware and chip business has been trying to diversify their manufacturing, to not be so dependent on Taiwan and China. Apple is one of those companies, having started shifting part of...
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NVIDIA is planning to ship a cut-down version of its RTX Pro 6000 server-class graphics card with key specification downgrades to China, in order to sidestep U.S.-imposed artificial intelligence (AI) chip export restrictions, according to...
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NVIDIA has been heavily impacted by US export control restrictions, which are part of the measures aimed at limiting China's access to key AI technologies and innovation designed here in the US. This has not gone down well with Jensen...
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Chip smugglers have reportedly found all kinds of creative ways to sneak semiconductors into China, such as hiding them with live lobsters, inside fake baby bumps, and other means designed to evade customs and, more broadly, import and...
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Butter. Corn on the cob. Potatoes. White wine. These are all things that pair nicely with lobster. But chips? Not so much, though when it comes to the non-edible variety (you know, semiconductors), there's a report claiming that smugglers...
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Some chip companies and their customers ought to be breathing a little easier today, thanks to a Chinese exemption on retaliatory tariffs on China-manufactured chips. The is particularly welcome news for AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, and Nvidia...
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Get ready for some possibly big changes the next time you shop on Amazon. With nearly half of Amazon resellers being based in China, the recent Trump Administration trade tariffs are expected to affect not just the price of goods, but...
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The US continues to lead the pack in AI development as it houses the industry's biggest tech companies and investors. However, a recent study - Stanford AI Index Report - reveals that the US lead has narrowed with China rapidly closing the...
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's recent appearance at a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago may have influenced more than just the guest list. According to sources with alleged knowledge of the matter, the Trump administration has shelved...
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GPMI is a freshly finalized A/V connectivity protocol designed by SUCA, a Chinese A/V industry consortium that includes TCL, HiSense, Huawei, Skyworth, and HiSilicon among its posse. In its first incarnation, the newcomer GPMI promises up...
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The general scarcity of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series has created a market where GPUs are selling for insane prices at places like eBay. That's not the only thing driving up the cost, though. Over in China, smugglers are making some...
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Google is no stranger to antitrust allegations in numerous countries, including the US. In what may be termed a tit-for-tat, the Chinese government has initiated an investigation into Google amidst claims of antitrust practices, following...
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As a part of its grand plans for outer space domination, China intends on sending another Chang'e probe into space next year. The mission this time is to search for water potentially frozen in the far side of the moon after previous...
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A new report details a startling discovery that Chinese state hackers accessed the networks of major US broadband providers, which were able to gain access to information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized...
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Foldable phones have been available for a few years now, and despite various takes on the form factor, they all have one thing in common: folding in half. Huawei's new foldable changes the game, however, with an innovative trifold design...
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As China attempts to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, the country’s first launch for an upcoming Chinese megaconstellation ended up littering a bunch of space junk in low-Earth orbit (LEO). US Space Command confirmed the break-up...
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