Weeks after unveiling new mobile chips that bring ChatGPT-like generative AI to premium phones, Qualcomm has announced some new silicon that brings the tech to more affordable handsets. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 will be used in phones from Honor, vivo and other manufacturers, with the first devices arriving later this month. At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon … Read more
Jensen Huang, president of Nvidia, holding the Grace hopper superchip CPU used for generative AI at the Supermicro keynote presentation during Computex 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nvidia on Monday unveiled the H200, a graphics processing unit designed for training and deploying the kinds of artificial intelligence models that are powering the … Read more
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Apple’s new M3 Pro chip is looking like an odd duck in an otherwise solidly improved MacBook Pro laptop. For most people who need a computer with a bit of oomph over dreary office tasks and need multiple external monitors, the M3 Pro will serve their needs and have great battery to boot. But year-over-year … Read more
Samsung is the world’s largest producer of memory chips. Image: Samsung Samsung narrowed its loss from its chip business in the third quarter while strong performance from its mobile business thanks to the launch of new foldable smartphones helped maintain profitability overall for the quarter. The South Korean tech giant said on Tuesday that it … Read more
An exterior view of the NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, California, May 30, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Intel stock dropped more than 3% during trading on Monday after Reuters reported that Nvidia and AMD were working on Arm-based PC chips. Arm stock rose more than 6%, and Nvidia gained nearly 4% during late-day … Read more
A partner at a Chinese semiconductor investment fund has welcomed the U.S. government’s ban of certain advanced chip types to be exported to China, describing the move as “great news” which may stimulate a domestic ecosystem. Chloe Wang, a partner and vice-president at the Guangzhou-headquartered Yang Cheng Fund, said: “We received the very great … Read more
The Biden administration has announced it is tightening export controls on semiconductor chips used for artificial intelligence and the equipment used to manufacture them, in an effort to prevent China from acquiring or producing advanced chips. The rules update restrictions that the U.S. announced a year ago prohibiting the sale of chips above a certain … Read more
At an event in Beijing this week, the Chinese search giant Baidu announced a new version of its most capable language model, called Ernie 4.0. Baidu says the performance of this model matches that of the AI model behind ChatGPT. The company said it used tens of thousands of chips to train Ernie 4.0. It … Read more
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New US rules blocking the export of most artificial intelligence chips to China will build upon a sweeping set of restrictions introduced in October 2022. Nvidia makes sought-after AI chips like the H100, and the AI boom has proven to be profitable as its valuation has expanded beyond $1 trillion. Last year’s restrictions meant the … Read more
Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nvidia and a number of other chipmakers saw shares fall Tuesday morning after the U.S. announced new restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence chips to China. Shares of chip stocks have boomed in the last year due to the increased demand for AI products and … Read more