The U.S. government has granted Intel licenses to supply Huawei
Intel now has licenses from U.S. authorities to continue providing some of its products to Huawei Technologies. This announcement was made by an Intel spokesman on Tuesday. U.S-China ties are at their worst for the first time in decades.
Washington has been pushing governments the world over to ... Read more
‘Acquisition of ARM will cost Nvidia more than 30 billion dollars’
Nvidia is supposedly in advanced talks with SoftBank for the acquisition of ARM. The chip company is rumoured to have a price tag of more than 32 billion dollars (27 billion euros).
ARM creates chip designs used by many big names in the tech world, including Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and Nvidia. ... Read more
Nvidia’s latest A100 GPU debuts on Google Cloud
The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance series on Google Cloud.
The company claims that the new chip, built using Nvidia's new Ampere architecture, is the most powerful GPU the company has ever produced. Designed primari... Read more
Apple announces switch from Intel chips to proprietary Arm chips
Apple announced during the online edition of its developer event WWDC that the company is switching from Intel chips to its own designed Arm chips. The company plans to move entirely from Intel to Arm within two years.
The company has not revealed any technical details about the new chips, nor ... Read more
Intel introduces 3D Lakefield processors with hybrid technology
Intel introduces its 3D Lakefield processors with hybrid technology for lightweight consumer devices. Using Foveros 3D technology, multiple components are stacked on top of each other in the chips, which is more efficient, according to Intel.
The two Lakefield chips both have five cores. The cor... Read more
‘Apple announces switch from Intel to ARM chips for Mac this month’
Apple will announce at the WWDC 2020 conference that it will use its own ARM-based chips for future macOS systems, according to Bloomberg. . WWDC is held on June 22. There has been speculation for years when Apple shuts down the use of the Intel chips.
Next year, Apple would like to supply the f... Read more
To stop China’s world domination, Huawei has to die
U.S. President Donald Trump has tightened the thumbscrews by extending and strengthen Huawei's trade ban. The company itself now indicates that it is going to get into trouble, it needs a solution. The chance that China will allow one of its largest companies to collapse because of Trump's policies... Read more
‘TSMC no longer accepts Huawei orders after new trade ban’
According to sources Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company stopped taking new orders from Huawei. This decision comes after the U.S. government introduced strict measures to restrict the Chinese company's access to American chips.
Several sources have reported this to the Nikkei Asian Revie... Read more
AWS makes instances available with its own Graviton2 chips
AWS makes the sixth generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) General Purpose instances publicly available. These instances, called M6g, use the proprietary Arm-based Graviton2 server chips.
The chip was designed by AWS and its research department Annapurna Labs. Amazon claims that... Read more
The White House wants more chip factories in the U.S.
The White House is in talks with chipmakers Intel and TSMC about building chip factories in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reports. The country wants to become less dependent on factories in Asia to produce chips. Having its own factories would be an essential step in that direction.
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