Huawei unveils its Ascend 910D AI chip, aiming to surpass Nvidia's H100 chip performance and challenge the tech giant's dominance in the high-end AI chip market, despite ongoing trade restrictions on exporting advanced chips to China.
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang asserts China matches the U.S. in AI capabilities, praising Huawei as formidable, and urges the U.S. government to prioritize AI policies to accelerate technological development and maintain competitiveness.
Huawei is gearing up to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market with a powerful new processor, still in development, that aims to rival Nvidia's H100 by bundling multiple chips to boost capability and overcome individual power limitations.
While China has surged ahead in deep tech innovation like AI and semiconductors due to its manufacturing prowess and heavy R&D investment, India is now playing catch-up by increasing funding and policy support for AI and domestic chip manufacturing initiatives.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announces ambitious 2027 deadline to crack AI's mysterious 'black box' problem, warning against deploying powerful systems that researchers cannot explain while calling for industry-wide safety research and government regulations to prevent an uncontrolled global AI race.
Major Chinese tech giants like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent hoarded billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia's H20 AI chips, designed for sale in China, in anticipation of U.S. export restrictions, aiming to stockpile around 1 million chips before the curbs were imposed in April.
In a historic shift, SK Hynix has dethroned Samsung as the world's top DRAM vendor, capturing 36% of global sales in Q1 2023, fueled by strong demand for its high-bandwidth AI chips from Nvidia, ending Samsung's 30-year reign.
A new investigation exposes the underpaid African workforce fueling global AI through outsourcing firms, raising concerns about tech companies distancing themselves from responsibility for exploitative labor practices by employing workers through third-party intermediaries.
Despite a $270 billion market value hit due to Trump-era tariffs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vows to invest $500 billion in U.S. manufacturing while continuing to serve the crucial Chinese market, defying trade tensions and underscoring the company's resilience and long-term vision.
TSMC, the Taiwanese semiconductor giant, is the unsung hero behind modern electronics, manufacturing the chips that power everything from smartphones to computers, enabling cutting-edge technology with its unparalleled expertise and market dominance.