Department of Commerce formally rescinds AI Diffusion Rule, says deploying Huawei Ascend chips violates US export rules
Joe Biden era rule was set to come into force on May 15, limit GPU exports
Joe Biden era rule was set to come into force on May 15, limit GPU exports
Has already partnered with US Air Force
Biden-era regulation sought to limit access to advanced AI chips and AI model weights
Stolen servers were headed for Hong Kong
Chip launch follows additional US export restrictions on Nvidia H20 GPUs to China
Follows Nvidia's announcement it plans to produce AI supercomputers in the US
Funding package made up of new and previously announced investments
President says there will be some flexibility with semiconductor tariffs
Additional controls were due to come into force this week
Commission also plans to propose Cloud and AI Development Act to triple EU data center capacity
Company had previously disclosed plans to pass on tariff-related costs to customers
Will contain 20x more chips than country’s existing Nvidia-based system
Program to determine if building a fault-tolerant quantum computer within a decade is possible
Project will see Ranovus’ optical interconnects integrated with Cerebras wafer-sized chips
Quantum computer will be delivered and installed in Q4 2025
System contains 108 Nvidia H100 GPUs
Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom have all been approached, sources claim
But report claims it is merely an upgrade of an existing facility
CFO Marie Myers said “recent tariff announcements have created uncertainty for our industry”
President used his joint address to Congress to once again criticize the CHIPS and Science Act
Police investigating whether servers containing restricted chips had been diverted from official destination
Data center will be located in Erlangen, Germany
“When they come into the United States, and they have their plant or factory here, there is no tariff,” the President said
Will provide UK organizations with access to EuroHPC research grants