With Washington granting export clearance for NVIDIA’s H20, China is accelerating its AI chip self-sufficiency drive. Nikkei reports that major municipalities are rolling out aggressive targets: Shanghai is pushing for 70% of data center chips to be domestically designed or produced by 2027, while...

According to Sedaily, industry sources on the 20th said the HBM4 samples Samsung supplied to NVIDIA last month have passed initial prototype and quality testing and are set to enter the “pre-production (PP)” stage by the end of this month. If they clear this final validation step, mass productio...

Despite uncertainty clouding Intel's 18A roadmap, the embattled chip giant pushes forward with its AI strategy. Wccftech reports that Intel is developing its inaugural rack-scale AI solution powered by Jaguar Shores, which has surfaced online. Notably, images discovered by a HardwareLUXX editor s...

According to CNBC, sources say Intel is in talks with other major investors for a discounted equity infusion, just days after the struggling chipmaker received a $2 billion injection from SoftBank Group. Reuters notes this could mark a second discounted capital infusion, following SoftBank’s $2...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, as per Reuters, is weighing a plan to swap CHIPS Act subsidies for equity stakes in recipients such as TSMC, Samsung, and Micron—an idea drawing intense scrutiny over both its impact and feasibility. According to the Economic Daily News, before the plan c...