15 h. ago Moore Threads aspires to become ‘leading global player’ in AI chips after IPO

Moore Threads, a five-year-old graphics processing unit (GPU) developer created by Nvidia’s former China chief, aspires to become one of the leading global players in artificial intelligence chip development, its founder and CEO Zhang Jianzhong said. Zhang, Nvidia’s China general manager from 2006 to 2020, was quoted as saying by the official Shanghai Securities Journal that the start-up would introduce a new-generation chip each year to provide key hardware for China’s AI development. “Our goal...

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7 d. ago World’s largest compressed air energy storage plant in China gets turbine unit

World’s largest compressed air energy storage plant in China gets turbine unit  Interesting Engineering

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7 d. ago Tensions flare as Wingtech slams chipmaker Nexperia’s head office over deception

A fierce war of words has erupted between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese owner, Wingtech Technology, after China and the European Union signalled that their dispute should be resolved at the corporate level. Wingtech accused Nexperia’s head office of being insincere after the Dutch head office publicly released a letter that said the chipmaker’s Chinese unit had been unresponsive to requests for talks. The heightened tensions underscore the complexity in resolving the two sides’...

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7 d. ago Nexperia Urges China Unit to Restore Chip Flow Amid Fears of Supply Squeeze

Nexperia Urges China Unit to Restore Chip Flow Amid Fears of Supply Squeeze  The Wall Street Journal

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7 d. ago Nexperia’s Supply Chain Crisis Deepens as It Presses China Unit to Talk

Nexperia’s Supply Chain Crisis Deepens as It Presses China Unit to Talk  eWeek

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7 d. ago Nexperia issues open letter urging “open dialogue” with China unit as customers report imminent production stoppages

Nexperia issues open letter urging “open dialogue” with China unit as customers report imminent production stoppages  Automotive Logistics

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7 d. ago What’s going on at Nexperia? Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit

What’s going on at Nexperia? Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit  CNBC

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7 d. ago What’s going on at Nexperia? China’s Wingtech escalates war of words with Dutch chipmaker

What’s going on at Nexperia? China’s Wingtech escalates war of words with Dutch chipmaker  CNBC

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7 d. ago Nexperia urges China unit to resume chip production amid supply disruption

Nexperia urges China unit to resume chip production amid supply disruption  Investing.com

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8 d. ago Dutch chipmaker Nexperia urges Chinese units to help restore supply chain

Dutch chipmaker Nexperia urges Chinese units to help restore supply chain  Reuters

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1 week ago Tencent Cloud and Cartesia find a rare common voice in AI speech applications

In a rare instance of China-US cooperation on a sensitive frontier technology, Tencent Holdings’ cloud unit has struck a partnership with San Francisco start-up Cartesia to develop next-generation voice artificial intelligence applications. Tencent Cloud said in a statement on Tuesday that it had formed a “strategic partnership” with Cartesia, which last month raised US$100 million for its text-to-speech model, Sonic 3. Tencent’s “enterprise-grade global real-time communication infrastructure”...

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1 week ago Netherlands’ Nexperia blunder shows it has forgotten its own history

The Netherlands has discovered that it could end up hemmed in by its technological prowess. A day after the United States tightened export controls on Chinese companies on September 29, the Dutch government moved to take control of Nexperia, a Chinese-controlled chipmaking firm. This coordinated act of carrying out US containment policy triggered a cascade that exposed the cost of the Netherlands being indispensable but not impartial. It likely prompted China’s decision to use rare earth...

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2 w. ago Nexperia’s Chinese owner pledges to use ‘all legal means’ in fight for control

Wingtech Technology, the Chinese owner of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, said it will use all possible legal means to take back control of the company, putting pressure on the Dutch government to do more to restore the rights of the Chinese shareholder. In a statement published a day after the Dutch government’s decision to suspend its intervention in Nexperia, Shanghai-listed Wingtech said the ruling made by the Dutch Enterprise Chamber on October 7, which deprived Wingtech of shareholder control...

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2 w. ago Dutch government releases control of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia

Dutch government releases control of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia  upi.com

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2 w. ago Top Democrat demands probe into 4 Chinese firms potentially supplying Nexperia

A senior US Democrat is urging the Commerce Department to investigate four Chinese semiconductor firms potentially tied to Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, warning they could threaten the safety and reliability of components used in cars across the US and its allies. The request marks the latest twist in the turmoil surrounding the Chinese-owned firm, which has become a flashpoint in broader disputes involving China, Europe, and the US, following months of internal conflicts, regulatory intervention...

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2 w. ago Top Democrat demands US probe into Chinese firms potentially supplying Nexperia

A senior US Democrat is urging the Commerce Department to investigate four Chinese semiconductor firms potentially tied to Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, warning they could threaten the safety and reliability of components used in cars across the US and its allies. The request marks the latest twist in the turmoil surrounding the Chinese-owned firm, which has become a flashpoint in broader disputes involving China, Europe, and the US, following months of internal conflicts, regulatory intervention...

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2 w. ago Dutch control of chipmaker Nexperia suspended as internal row rumbles on

Dutch control of chipmaker Nexperia suspended as internal row rumbles on  Reuters

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2 w. ago Dutch government suspends invoking Goods Availability Act on Nexperia

The Dutch government has suspended its invocation of the Goods Availability Act, a Cold War-era law it used to effectively seize the European operations of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia. In a statement on Wednesday, the Dutch economy minister said the government had held “constructive meetings with the Chinese authorities” in recent days and that he was “positive about the measures already taken by the Chinese authorities to ensure the supply of chips to Europe and the rest of the world”. “We...

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2 w. ago China's CNPC inaugurates power unit in Beijing to drive new energy business

China's CNPC inaugurates power unit in Beijing to drive new energy business  Reuters

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3 w. ago U.S. Marines Deploy Drone Unit to Philippines to Patrol Over South China Sea

U.S. Marines Deploy Drone Unit to Philippines to Patrol Over South China Sea  USNI News

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