DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - China, ByteDance
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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TikTok owner ByteDance signs 500MW data center deal with Vnet in China- report
As Vnet raises money to expand its Mainland China footprint
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ByteDance in talks with Samsung for production of 350,000 AI inferencing chips – report
Chinese tech company expecting to receive sample chips by end of March
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China approves Nvidia H200 purchases for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent - report
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
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TikTok US spin-off finalized, led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX
ByteDance retains 19.9 percent stake
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ByteDance ramps up cloud computing offering in China
Company has been expanding its cloud team and undercutting rivals on prices
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ByteDance signs deal to put TikTok US in control of Oracle-led consortium and avoid ban
Is the saga finally over?
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Trump signs EO bringing TikTok sale closer, as Oracle looks to partner with MGX, Fox, and Silver Lake for acquisition
Trump backers headline list of expected acquirers
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Trump extends ByteDance's TikTok sale window, again
Shortform vids, longform saga
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TikTok drops ByteDance CDN in the US following brief shutdown
Comes as parent company plans $12bn AI chip splurge
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TikTok services return in US after Trump promises it will be un-banned
But could still be forced into a joint venture
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ByteDance to develop $614m AI data center in Shanxi province, China
TikTok owner increasing compute capacity to meet AI demands
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ByteDance could spend $7bn to access Nvidia Blackwell chips outside China – report
Would make TikTok’s parent company one of Nvidia’s biggest customers
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US Supreme Court to review TikTok ban delay request
ByteDance hopes to make it till Trump's next term
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TikTok loses court appeal, on track to be banned in the US
Unless the social media app can be sold by its Chinese owner... or Trump comes to the rescue
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US DoJ alleges TikTok has been storing sensitive US customer data on China-based servers
Claims made in response to legal challenge against forced sale of the app
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TikTok owner’s ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop AI chips
Advanced AI processors will be manufactured by TSMC
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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US House passes bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face ban
Oracle would have to stop hosting it, if it doesn't sell
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House Committee votes to force TikTok sale, would block US data centers from hosting app
Company relies on Oracle for American operations
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TikTok opens data center in Dublin, Ireland
After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half
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China's tech giants order $5bn in Nvidia chips, including 100,000 A800 GPUs for 2023
Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips
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ByteDance pledges to be operationally carbon neutral by 2030
Will see IT provider reduce emissions by at least 90 percent
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ByteDance hires for in-house AI chip development
Joining the hyperscalers in building custom hardware
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TikTok owner ByteDance criticized in Greenpeace report on Chinese cloud providers
GDS leads the pack - but Chinese cloud giants are slow to pick up renewable energy
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ByteDance to offer cloud services on its Volcano Engine
TikTok parent erupts into a new market
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Forced sale of TikTok US to Oracle and Walmart shelved indefinitely
The Biden administration is less focused on social media
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ChinData launches 50MW Chinese data center
The data center will serve the company's main tenent, ByteDance
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ChinData IPO raises $540m, values company at $4.9bn
ByteDances Bain-backed data center partner is now listed in the US