Artificial intelligence has become the central battleground of global power. Governments are now competing not just in algorithms but across four strategic assets: Compute, chips, data and talent. The result is an emerging geopolitical map often described as the “AI Cold War” with the United States, China and Europe building competing ecosystems while middle powers…
Mahdi Yahya pitched to hundreds of investors with his early AI venture. Mahdi Yahya’s fascination with data centres began as a child. His father worked in telecoms and took him to facilities where he first remembers the “smells, sounds, the noise and being extremely cold”. Yahya’s London-based firm, Ori Industries, has since proved to be…
A number of mainland-based suppliers of memory chips and storage solutions are pursuing share listings in Hong Kong, signalling a strategic change in how the sector aims to fuel its global ambitions, according to analysts. The most watched firm is Shanghai-based Montage Technology, a designer of high-speed interconnect chips for data centres, which is taking…
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,…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has written to the US government, saying that the nation must drastically increase its investment in new energy capacity to prevent falling behind China in the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy. The startup, which has recently embarked on deals for massive, power-hungry data centres, submitted an 11-page document to the White…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Brenda Goh SEOUL/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Micron plans to stop supplying server chips to data centres in China after the business failed to recover from a 2023 government ban on its products in critical Chinese infrastructure, two people briefed on the decision said. Micron was the first U.S. chipmaker to be targeted by…
TURIN (Reuters) –Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos said on Friday gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years, predicting they would eventually outperform Earth-based ones thanks to the abundance of uninterrupted solar energy. The number of these enormous centres, which store computing infrastructure, is growing exponentially…
The China-US AI gap has narrowed to around three months from more than a year, thanks in part to the influx of AI talent, fast technology iteration and a boom in AI applications on the mainland, said Tony Zhang, head of China technology research at CLSA, in a media briefing on Tuesday. While Chinese companies…
China is requiring its data centres to use more home-grown computing chips in a move that underscores Beijing’s accelerated efforts to cut reliance on foreign technology as the US tightens export controls. Publicly owned computing hubs across the country have been asked to source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers…
Beijing [China], August 10 (ANI): As the global battle for technological supremacy intensifies, national security experts are sounding the alarm over China’s creeping dominance in telecommunications, an invisible war being waged far below the surface through undersea cables, data centres, and surveillance platforms. According to Pieuvre, Salih Hudayar, Foreign Minister for the East Turkestan government-in-exile,…