The U.S. Department of Commerce last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt certain tool shipments to China‘s second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong, its latest action to slow the country’s development of advanced chips, according to two people familiar with the matter. The department sent letters to at least a handful of companies informing them…
In two different cases on Wednesday, United States authorities indicted Chinese nationals on charges ranging from conspiring to smuggle advanced AI chips to China to drug trafficking and money laundering. The cases came on the same day US President Donald Trump announced new mid-May dates for his highly anticipated summit with China. The developments come…
Nvidia has denied a report which claimed that the American chipmaker has imposed certain payment terms on Chinese customers for its advanced H200 AI chips. The report, published by the news agency Reuters, suggested that Nvidia was demanding these “upfront payments” to protect itself from uncertainty on H200 chip sales in China. However, Nvidia says…
https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251215.mp3 Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its correlated impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: – Nvidia H200 exports to China – H20, H200 and Chinese AI chips: how do they stack up? – Few fast GPUs vs. many slow GPUs – China’s power…
For years, many foreign companies treated China as a vast consumer base or a low-cost manufacturing hub. Now that paradigm is shifting dramatically. China is not just where multinationals scale production or sell at volume; it is increasingly where they make strategic decisions, engage in serious research and development and innovate in ways that will…
The use of chips for artificial intelligence and electric vehicles (EVs) will offer strong demand underpinning the development of mainland China’s semiconductor industry, according to veterans of the sector at an annual gathering in Shanghai. At the 2025 Global Semiconductor Market Summit, chip executives discussed the industry’s future amid US-China tech rivalry and surging demand…
China mandates all state-funded data centres to use domestic AI chips, escalating its tech rivalry with the US. China Tightens Rules on Data Centres, Mandates Use of Domestic AI Chips. The Chinese government has introduced new regulations requiring all data centre projects that receive state funding to use only domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) chips,…
Moore Threads Technology, a Chinese graphics processing unit (GPU) start-up founded by a veteran of Nvidia’s China operations, has become one of the most closely watched semiconductor players in the country, as domestic AI chip designers race to displace the US chip giant. The Beijing-based company last week received approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange…
Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined. This figure suggests that China is building leadership in robotics not merely for industrial efficiency, but as a direct path to achieving independence in core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The prioritisation of embodied intelligence, or AI-powered robots,…
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has launched an “experimental” version of its V3 foundation model ahead of the country’s National Day holiday, as the Hangzhou-based company accelerates its product releases. On Monday, DeepSeek released V3.2-Exp and open-sourced it on developer platforms Hugging Face and Alibaba Group Holding-backed ModelScope. According to DeepSeek, this model enhanced training…