President Joe Biden’s final days in office seemed all about cementing the United States’ well-established lead over China in the market for artificial intelligence. The administration’s methods — focused on severing China’s access to AI by regulating global access to advanced semiconductors — were met with nods of approval from policy experts but annoyance from…
Chinese start-up Zhipu AI said it “strongly disagrees” with a US decision to add the company and its subsidiaries to an export blacklist, as the administration of President Joe Biden released a flurry of trade restrictions just days before he leaves office. The US Department of Commerce on Wednesday added 25 China-based companies and two…
President-elect Donald Trump named Elbridge Colby as his next undersecretary of defense policy. In February, Colby said “disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes” if China invades Taiwan. Colby made the same point in 2023, saying the US should never allow TSMC to fall into Chinese hands. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for undersecretary of defense…
A Huawei Mate 70 series smartphone displayed at a Huawei store on December 1, 2024 in Beijing, China.Photo: VCG (Getty Images) In This Story Despite its comeback to compete with Apple in the Chinese smartphone market, Huawei’s latest smartphone shows it is still years behind, researchers found. Emerging markets will be the ‘dark horse’ of…
Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos joined Samsung in a $700 million bet on Tenstorrent, valuing the AI chip startup with ambitions of taking on Nvidia Corp. at about $2.6 billion. Tenstorrent, which hopes to create a chip to try and break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI business, raised capital in a funding round led by…
Mainland China’s chip design firms are anxiously waiting for any further updates from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), after the world’s most advanced contract chip manufacturer paused 7-nanometre node services for some artificial intelligence (AI) chip clients in the world’s largest semiconductor market by consumption. TSMC last week told graphics-processing-unit (GPU) and AI-accelerator clients on…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s semiconductor index leapt close to a three-year high on Monday on bets a U.S. order halting Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers could accelerate Beijing’s self-reliance efforts. TSMC will from Monday suspend shipments of certain sophisticated chips to some Chinese clients after receiving a letter from…
By Karen Freifeld and Fanny Potkin NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used in artificial intelligence applications starting Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Department of Commerce sent a letter to TSMC imposing export…
In This Story Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM-0.21%) is following U.S. efforts to curb China’s artificial intelligence ambitions, reportedly telling chip design firms in the country it will stop producing their most advanced AI chips. How Nvidia’s H200 GPUs and Blackwell chips are revolutionizing data centers The Taiwanese chipmaker told its Chinese customers it is…
By Max A. Cherney, Jeffrey Dastin, Dawn Chmielewski, Fanny Potkin and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Pat Gelsinger took the reins as Intel CEO three years ago with hopes of reviving the American industrial icon. He soon made a big mistake. Intel had a sweet deal going with Taiwan’s TSMC, the giant manufacturer of semiconductors for…