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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China warns US over ban; Nvidia’s AI chip price, and more

1Feb

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China warns US over ban; Nvidia’s AI chip price, and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: Several notable developments took place in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) today, February 1. After the US placed curbs on Chinese companies, a spokesperson in Beijing said that this move would “come back to bite them”. Meanwhile, a new Amazon Web Services report found that over a third of European businesses leveraged AI in 2023 to achieve their goals.All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. China says curbs on its firms will haunt the USAfter the Pentagon on Thursday placed several more Chinese companies on a list of organizations that have been accused of aiding the PLA, Beijing said that these curbs would “come back to bite them”. As per a Reuters report, amidst rising demand for AI chips, the US placed China's biggest chipmaker, Yangtze Memory Techn...

World’s Most Valuable Chipmaker Nvidia Unveils More AI Products After $184 Billion Rally

29May

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World’s Most Valuable Chipmaker Nvidia Unveils More AI Products After $184 Billion Rally

[ad_1] In a two-hour presentation in Taiwan, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products and services tied to artificial intelligence, looking to capitalize on a frenzy that has made his company the world's most valuable chipmaker.The wide-ranging lineup includes a new robotics system, gaming capabilities, advertising services, and a networking technology. Perhaps most central to his ambitions, Huang took the wraps off an AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200 that will help tech companies create successors to ChatGPT. Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet Inc.'s Google are expected to be among the first users. “It's too much,” Huang, 60, said near the end of his keynote at the Computex show. “I know it's too much.” The flurry of a...

Schumer says AI presents both a ‘serious problem’ and an economic boon

21Apr

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Schumer says AI presents both a ‘serious problem’ and an economic boon

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is the next technology that could get support — and new guardrails — from the US government, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.Senate Democrats are accelerating discussions about how to respond to the surge in AI technology in a way that replicates a bipartisan act meant support US semiconductor manufacturing, which was signed into law last year. Schumer said that could be the model for assuring US supremacy in AI and countering Chinese advancements. “Like we helped move the nation forward on chips in a good way that will help American jobs, the American economy and the American people, we're going to try to do the same type of stuff on AI,” Schumer said in a brief interview. Artificial intelligence has been a focus of research for years, from Sili...

Qualcomm, Nvidia spar for top spot in AI chip efficiency tests

8Apr

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Qualcomm, Nvidia spar for top spot in AI chip efficiency tests

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence chips from Qualcomm Inc beat Nvidia Corp in two out of three measures of power efficiency in a new set of test data published on Wednesday.Nvidia dominates the market for training AI models with huge amounts of data. But after those AI models are trained, they are put to wider use in what is called "inference" by doing tasks like generating text responses to prompts and deciding whether an image contains a cat. Analysts believe that the market for data center inference chips will grow quickly as businesses put AI technologies into their products, but companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google are already exploring how to keep the lid on the extra costs that doing so will add. One of those major costs is electricity, and Qualcomm has used its history designing...

Web of Secret Chip Deals Allegedly Help US Tech Flow to Russia

16Mar

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Web of Secret Chip Deals Allegedly Help US Tech Flow to Russia

[ad_1] For years, Artem Uss had appeared in Russian media as the owner of fancy real estate, luxury cars and Italian hotels. Now US officials allege he's at the center of a suspected secret supply chain that prosecutors say used American technology to support President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.The son of a Siberian governor was arrested last year on charges that he and his associates defrauded the US and its companies and also violated sanctions by selling sensitive technologies from the US to Russia via intermediaries in non-sanctioned countries. He's the most politically connected Russian to be indicted by the US as Washington races to choke off Moscow's access to chips used in weapons systems. Uss has denied any wrongdoing and is now in the midst of an extradition battle in M...

3Mar

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Chips industry goes all-in on AI

[ad_1] It's been a wild few years for the microchip industry, recovering from a long-term supply squeeze only to be thrust into the centre of a US-China battle to control supply lines of the valuable technology.But an industry long associated with volatility is quietly getting excited that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the key to some longer-term stability. US firm Nvidia dominates the market in specialised chips known as GPUs, which happen to be ideal for training AI programmes like the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT. "Technology trends are working in Nvidia's direction," the firm's vice president Ronnie Vasishta told AFP this week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.This has helped make Nvidia the biggest company in the sector -- and one of the biggest firms of an...

Britain Wargames a Crash Far Worse Than Covid If Chip Supplies Are Shut Off

17Feb

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Britain Wargames a Crash Far Worse Than Covid If Chip Supplies Are Shut Off

[ad_1] It's 2027 and London's black market for vintage smartphones is thriving. Second-hand cars are selling faster than any rolling off UK assembly lines. Internet blackouts are common, inflation is surging and waiting lists for public health services are lengthening again. Britain is in the grip of a global semiconductor crisis. In this hypothetical scenario, chip supplies dried up a year after China stormed Taiwan and blockaded production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., which makes 92% of the world's most advanced semiconductors. Broader tensions in the region disrupted supplies from other key producers in Japan and South Korea, and Beijing restricted its own exports for economic leverage against the US. The spark for a fictitious tech shortage could also have b...

Chipmakers Are All Pulling Back With Downturn – Except Samsung

27Oct

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Chipmakers Are All Pulling Back With Downturn – Except Samsung

[ad_1] Over the past two weeks, every major memory chipmaker has warned of a supply glut and tumbling prices. Over the past two weeks, every major memory chipmaker has warned of a supply glut and tumbling prices, announcing it was time to slash capital spending. Not so market leader Samsung Electronics Co. The South Korean giant said on Thursday that it sees widespread weakness in the semiconductor market with little sign of recovery until the second half of next year-- but it's not going to pull back. Instead, Samsung is increasing its capital expenditures this year, in a move that would help it gain ground against rivals in the memory sector as well as against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. “Without a doubt, we are at a pivotal moment,” Samsung's newly-appointed Execu...

China’s YMTC asks core US employees to leave due to chip expo

24Oct

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China’s YMTC asks core US employees to leave due to chip expo

[ad_1] Chinese chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) Ltd has asked its U.S. employees in core tech positions to leave. Chinese chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) Ltd has asked its U.S. employees in core tech positions to leave, as the company rushes to comply with the new U.S export restrictions, Financial Times reported on Monday. It was unclear how many U.S. citizens and green card holders would be forced to leave YMTC, Financial Times reported, quoting four people close to the company. The paper said several employees in China had already left the company. China chip imports drop 12.4% year-on-year in September - govt data China's chip imports fell 12.4 percent in September, according to official customs data published on Monday, continuing a declin...

Chipmaker TSMC’s sales buck estimates, competition slowdown

7Oct

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Chipmaker TSMC’s sales buck estimates, competition slowdown

[ad_1] Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC posted better-than-expected third-quarter profits on Friday as rivals warn that demand for consumer electronics is being hit by the global economic downturn. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company operates the world's largest silicon wafer factories and produces some of the most advanced microchips used in everything from smartphones and cars to missiles. Revenue for September was approximately TW$208.25 billion ($6.6 billion), down 4.5 percent from the month before but an increase of 36 percent from September last year. Third-quarter revenue at the world's largest contract chipmaker also rose 48 percent on-year to about TW$613 billion ($19.4 billion), according to Bloomberg News calculations. TSMC's results came the same day bigges...