DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, ByteDance
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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ByteDance and Oracle named as Arm AGI CPU customers
Revealed by Arm CEO Rene Haas at Computex
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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 drops ByteDance CDN in the US following brief shutdown
Comes as parent company plans $12bn AI chip splurge
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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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Microsoft bought twice as many Nvidia Hopper GPUs as other big tech companies - report
Acquired double the Nvidia chips as Meta, according to Omdia
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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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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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Cerebras signs ~$900m deal with UAE's G42 to build nine AI supercomputers
A huge win for the chip startup, as well as data center host Colovore
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FCC Commissioner calls for ban on TikTok in US
Over concerns on how Beijing-based TikTok handles US user data
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ByteDance hires for in-house AI chip development
Joining the hyperscalers in building custom hardware
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Ampere unveils new chip design, says Microsoft, Tencent, and ByteDance are customers
Drops Neoverse to design cores in house
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TikTok's ByteDance hiring for potential in-house server chips
Post Trump, TikTok plans for growth
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ByteDance leases 53MW of Northern Virginia data center space, ahead of possible US spin off
By housing its servers in the US ByteDance could assuage data security fears
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US trade blacklist adds Chinese supercomputing companies
Sugon, Hygon and more hit by ban