China’s power play jolts the AI race
Expert warns the West is missing the real contest
China’s sheer electrical muscle is about to reshape the AI race faster than many Western wonks care to admit.
Sovereign AI key to dodge superpower dependence
Seoul throws cash and clout at its own AI destiny
The global AI arms race between China and the US has smaller nations nervously eyeing their supply lines, fearing they will end up beholden to the whims of the superpowers.
Tachyum boasts of a 6GHz with 1,024 cores
Outfit promises cosmic performance from a chip that exists only on paper.
Tachyum has rolled out fresh specs for its upcoming Prodigy Universal Processor and the sheet reads like someone let a marketing intern loose with a calculator.
China taps Nvidia kit through a maze of middlemen
Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.
A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.
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.