Nvidia and South Korean chip startup Rebellions discussing potential collaboration – report
Comes as chip giant denies claims it's been developing China-specific LPU
News - China, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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State-backed Chinese company developing DUV lithography tools for domestic chip companies – report
Unnamed company aims to develop five systems this year, increasing to 20 in 2027
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Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of ongoing chip smuggling investigation
Unnamed suspect questioned following searches of his home and workplace
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DeepSeek to develop its own custom AI chip – report
Inference chip will allow company reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei
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Qolab raises $54.2m to support development of superconducting quantum computing
While China’s SpinQ raises $147m, announces establishment of superconducting quantum chip facility in Shenzhen
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Supermicro's Taiwan office raided in ongoing Nvidia smuggling probe, more employees detained by prosecutors – report
Follows announcement last month that company was working with authorities to stop illegal shipments of AI servers
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Supermicro says it is working with Taiwanese authorities to stop illegal shipments of its servers to China
Collaboration resulted in the seizure of 50 servers, company claims
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China's Cold Atom Technology unveils 200-qubit dual-core neutral atom quantum computer
The company claims the Hanyuan-2 system is the first of its kind globally
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Huawei predicts 60% revenue boost from sale of its AI chips in 2026
Company is forecasting $12bn worth of sales
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China’s National Supercomputing Center announces plans for two exaflops CPU-powered machine
The LineShine system will comprise entirely of Chinese-made hardware
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China’s SMIC shipping chipmaking equipment to Iranian military – report
US-sanctioned chipmaker is believed to have been shipping tools to Iran for about a year
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Three at Supermicro charged with smuggling Nvidia GPU servers into China, including company co-founder
One of the defendants is a co-founder of the server manufacturer
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Nvidia reallocates China H200 manufacturing capacity for Vera Rubin chips - report
Decision results from lack of meaningful GPU sales to Chinese customers
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Applied Materials reaches $252m settlement with US gov’t over illegal shipments to Chinese chipmaker SMIC
Penalty is twice the value of the illegal shipments made by the company
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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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Intel and AMD warn Chinese customers of CPU delays due to supply shortages - report
Intel rationing deliveries of fourth and fifth-generation CPUs, with wait times of up to six months anticipated
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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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US House Foreign Affairs Committee advances bill to give Congress AI chip export authority
Bipartisan legislation passed the House 42-2
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US introduces 25 percent export tariff on chips “important” to nation's technology policies
Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X GPUs will be subject to the levy
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Nvidia H200 chips can be exported to China on 'case-by-case basis' - US government
Exports will only be permitted if sufficient supply of the GPUs exists in the US
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US House of Representatives pass bill to limit remote access to US AI chips
Meanwhile, Nvidia says upfront payments from Chinese customers purchasing H200s is not company policy
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Nvidia to require full, upfront payment from Chinese customers purchasing H200s – report
Customers in China will also not be able to cancel, reconfigure placements, or ask for refunds
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Baidu launches Kunlun M100 and M300 AI chips
Company also unveiled new Tianchi supernodes at its annual conference in Beijing
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Trump says nobody “other than the United States” will have access to Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell GPUs
Unclear what this means for Nvidia’s previously announced Blackwell deployments outside the US
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Nexperia suspends wafer supplies to Chinese chip plant after Dutch government takeover
Blames decision on “failure to comply with the agreed contractual payment terms”
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Micron to stop supplying server chips to data center customers in China – report
Follows ban imposed on the company by the Chinese government in 2023
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Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
Claims it was forced to act due to “serious governance shortcomings” at the company
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Huawei announces annual release cadence for three new Ascend AI chips, unveils ‘supernode’ offering company says will outperform Nvidia’s NVL144
Announcements made at company’s Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai