3 d. ago Nvidia taps two young Chinese AI experts to strengthen research

US chip giant Nvidia has hired two prominent artificial intelligence (AI) experts who hail from China, underscoring the rising global recognition of talent from the mainland and their key contributions to the field’s advancement. Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao, both alumni of China’s Tsinghua University, said on their respective social media accounts that they joined Nvidia, sharing photos of themselves with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of the company. Zhu, who received his bachelor’s degree...

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3 d. ago Nvidia taps 2 young Chinese AI experts to strengthen research

US chip giant Nvidia has hired two prominent artificial intelligence (AI) experts who hail from China, underscoring the rising global recognition of talent from the mainland and their key contributions to the field’s advancement. Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao, both alumni of China’s Tsinghua University, said on their respective social media accounts that they joined Nvidia, sharing photos of themselves with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of the company. Zhu, who received his bachelor’s degree...

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8 d. ago China can’t buy Nvidia’s RTX 4090. Now its optical chip is twice as fast

Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”, setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the same time, the scientists say. The advance promises hardware acceleration for AI and data centres struggling with soaring computational demands. The chip achieves a theoretical peak computing power of 2,560 TOPS (tera-operations per second) at 50GHz optical frequency – performance comparable to...

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1 week ago Malaysia ‘stands firm’ on US chip curbs after alleged breach by Chinese company

Trade authorities in Malaysia have launched an investigation into claims that Chinese engineers bypassed US chip curbs by renting data centres packed with high-end Nvidia chips to train their artificial intelligence (AI) model in the country. The allegation, made in a report by The Wall Street Journal last Thursday, poses a potential stumbling block to Malaysia’s tariff negotiations with the US, which has curbed China’s access to high-end chips, including through third nations. Malaysia’s trade...

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2 w. ago Nvidia to exclude China from forecasts amid US chip export controls

Nvidia to exclude China from forecasts amid US chip export controls  South China Morning Post

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2 w. ago Nvidia to stop including China in forecasts amid US chip export controls, CNN reports

Nvidia to stop including China in forecasts amid US chip export controls, CNN reports  Reuters

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2 w. ago Nvidia will stop including China in its forecasts amid US chip export controls, CEO says

Nvidia will stop including China in its forecasts amid US chip export controls, CEO says  CNN

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2 w. ago Nvidia CEO says Huawei has everyone ‘covered’ if US chip ban on China stays

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s technology remained a generation ahead of those developed by China, but warned that Huawei Technologies was in a position to expand its semiconductor business should US chip export curbs stay in place. In an interview with US broadcaster CNBC on Thursday, Huang appeared to echo recent published remarks made by Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, who said the Chinese company’s Ascend artificial intelligence (AI) processors lagged behind...

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3 w. ago Nvidia, AMD, Other Chip Stocks Rise on Hopes China Export Restrictions Could Ease

Nvidia, AMD, Other Chip Stocks Rise on Hopes China Export Restrictions Could Ease  Investopedia

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3 w. ago Chinese Firm Pulls Press Release Announcing New Nvidia AI Chip

Chinese Firm Pulls Press Release Announcing New Nvidia AI Chip  Investor's Business Daily

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last month Nvidia builds new AI chip for China with computing cluster capabilities: report

Semiconductor giant Nvidia is developing a new China-tailored artificial intelligence (AI) chip that complies with US export regulations and will enable users to link multiple units to create high-performance computing clusters, according to a report by digital publication The Information. Nvidia plans to produce more than 1 million units of its new B30 chip this year, the report said, amid efforts by the company to preserve its market share in the world’s second-largest economy in the face of...

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last month Nvidia reportedly developing new AI chip for China that meets export controls – B30 could include NVLink for creation of high

Nvidia reportedly developing new AI chip for China that meets export controls – B30 could include NVLink for creation of high-performance clusters  Tom's Hardware

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