Huawei AI SSD

China’s tech champion, Huawei, takes a bold leap with a huge SSD launch while facing crushing US HBM export restrictions

Huawei shifts focus from HBM toward SSD capacity to manage AI loads The OceanDisk LC 560 boasts 245TB, the largest SSD ever made Huawei promotes DiskBooster software as a memory pooling solution across HBM and SSD Huawei has unveiled (originally in Chinese) a set of AI SSDs designed to ease reliance on high-bandwidth memory, an…

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After locking out the U.S., China offers rare earth development assistance to Malaysia — country has estimated 16.2 million metric tons of elements worth $175 billion

Malaysian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sustainability Johari Ambud Ghani revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping offered the country technical assistance to develop its rare-earth processing capabilities. Digitimes reported that the leader of the Communist Party of China proposed this deal during his visit in 2024, but it came with one key condition: the…

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Xi, Putin, Kim in defiant show of strength

Xi, Putin, Kim in defiant show of strength

Kim Jong Un has sent Moscow both troops and weapons, while U.S. officials say Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has supplied drones. Though Xi has strived to assert neutrality in the conflict, he has provided Russia with a diplomatic and economic lifeline. The U.S. and other Western governments largely stayed away from the parade, in part…

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