A CCTV-affiliated account says DeepSeek and MiniMax have registered and cleared open-source and overseas licensing. It is the only source so far, and the…
Beijing's draft puts 23 AI technologies on a 40-item export list, and the part I didn't expect is who it spares. Nothing is final…
One executive's remarks about a denser memory cell, with no process data, no yield and no sample, were enough to take 7.4% off Korea's…
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…
ASML Japan is planning to grow from about 500 employees to around 700 by 2030, according to ASML Japan president Fujiwara Shojiro, who announced…
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…
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…
Kenji Ohmori's team in Japan successfully activated a fifty-qubit quantum machine named Shunkai, marking a significant step in quantum hardware. As nations invest heavily…
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…
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.…
In July, Moonshot AI faced accusations of misusing Nvidia chips, but it only rented compute from Thailand, exploiting a loophole in U.S. export controls.…
Firebird's Armenia AI factory, the biggest in the former Soviet bloc, is really a story about export licenses: Washington cleared Nvidia Blackwell into a…
The U.S. State Department's recent letter urges 35 countries to choose sides in the AI competition between Washington and Beijing, highlighting concerns over Kazakhstan's…
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