Nvidia says it expects U.S. government approval to export advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to the Chinese market. The green light would be a breakthrough for the chipmaker after months of navigating controls on semiconductor technology aimed at slowing China’s progress on AI technologies with military applications. Newsweek reached out to the White House via…
In southeastern Beijing, engineers at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China’s top chipmaker, are working around the clock to expand the output of 14-nanometer and even 7-nm chips, just a few generations behind the world’s leading chipmakers. Being able to make such advanced chips at all is a major breakthrough for a company that has been…
Wuhan University has become the latest institution to join China’s push for self-reliance in semiconductors by establishing the School of Integrated Circuits, led by a scientist educated at Stanford University. Liu Sheng, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1992, has been appointed as…