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…
AI regulation enforcement arrived on three continents in one week: the EU AI Act's transparency layer went live, China issued its first companion-AI fines,…
SMIC reported a Q2 net profit of $479.2 million, surpassing expectations, with revenue up 36 percent. While the firm is enhancing production to address…
Apple is testing DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese supplier flagged by the Trump administration for military ties, amid a global memory…
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