Huawei Pulled the Ascend 960DT Forward Three Quarters. The Optics Matter More Than the Date.
Huawei's Ascend 960DT now lands in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3, feeding a 4,096-NPU Atlas 960E SuperPoD built on near-packaged optics. The…
Huawei's Ascend 960DT now lands in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3, feeding a 4,096-NPU Atlas 960E SuperPoD built on near-packaged optics. The…
China's Institute of Microelectronics reports a significant 500,000 on-off current ratio for a new gate-all-around transistor using deep ultraviolet lithography. However, this measure alone…
This week, differing definitions of AI sovereignty emerged from New Delhi, Brussels, and Beijing. India proposed a stringent cloud sovereignty framework, bypassing diplomacy, while…
Oppo's upcoming Find X10 series, including the Find X10 and Pro Max, received BIS certification in India, signaling an imminent launch. Featuring unreleased MediaTek…
UBS estimates that China's lithography technology is significantly behind, comparable to ASML in 2004, with no viable EUV alternative expected within a decade. However,…
The Kirin 9050 Pro is the first chip built on Huawei's LogicFolding: two active silicon layers bonded face to face by 50 million vertical…
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, discussions centered on European AI sovereignty, highlighted by Emad Mostaque's assertion that controlling AI equates to controlling countries. While there…
Tim Cook's recent departure from his CEO role at Apple marks a significant transition, with John Ternus stepping in. Cook's tenure, focused on operational…
Chang Deng-Lung and eight others were indicted for smuggling Nvidia AI servers into China via Indonesia and Japan, exploiting legal gaps in Taiwan's export…
SK Hynix has initiated construction on a $4 billion factory in Indiana, intended for advanced memory chip packaging and AI semiconductor research. However, actual…
Alibaba's share placement raised $10.2 billion, the largest primary follow-on in Hong Kong history. Against RMB67.7 billion of June-quarter capex, it buys about one…
Z.ai confirmed it built Ox Alpha, now rebranded GLM-5.3-Flash, and claims the model runs entirely on 100,000 domestically made chips. The company won't say…
The MATCH Act would strip ASML of its remaining DUV sales to China and bar it from servicing machines already installed there. It's riding…
Xiaomi launched three chips at once: the Xring O3 with a ten-core all-big-core CPU and no efficiency cores, an O100 AI accelerator using hybrid…
The EU's Industrial Accelerator Act mandates that by January 2029, various products, including buildings and vehicles, must contain a certain percentage of Union-origin materials.…
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