Shortly after White House Economic Adviser Kevin Hassett hinted at NVIDIA’s H20 AI chip shipments to China, Chinese authorities unexpectedly demanded NVIDIA explain the security risks and possible backdoors in its H20 chips, according to Chinese media outlet ijiwei. The report suggests that th...

As Qualcomm and Samsung push into the 2nm era with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 and Exynos 2600, Taiwan’s MediaTek confirmed at its July 30 earnings call that it’s also gearing up for 2nm, targeting edge and cloud AI chips—with tape-out expected in September, according to the Economic Daily Ne...

With U.S. approval to restart H20 sales in China, buzz around NVIDIA’s inventory is ramping up. Fueled by strong demand from Chinese buyers, the AI chip giant reportedly placed a 300,000-chip order with TSMC last week, Reuters reports. According to sources cited by the report, the new TSMC orde...

Just days after NVIDIA made the announcement to resume H20 sales in China in mid-July, local AI chip unicorns rushed to make their mark. On July 27, Enflame and MetaX unveiled their latest flagship processors at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, according to EE Times China and eastmoney.co...

According to a report from Chinese media outlet Mydrivers, information on LinkedIn shows that Ian Yang, who retired from Intel in 2021 as President of Intel China, joined AMD at the end of 2024 as Corporate Vice President and Lenovo Global Account Manager. As the report highlights, the former Int...