UCAR wins injunction against US gov’t’s attempts to transition management of Wyoming supercomputing center
Judge ruled that despite gov’t saying no final decision has been made, comments and documentation demonstrate otherwise
News - Standards & Regulations, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
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Italian court suspends €47m quantum computing contract with IBM following tender process appeal
Unsuccessful bidder Tea Tek claims procedural process was unfair
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Department of Commerce issues export licenses for Nvidia chips destined for the UAE
Follows reports that delays were frustrating members of the government and Nvidia executives
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UALink Consortium releases 200G 1.0 specification for AI accelerator interconnects
Group working to establish an open industry standard for AI interconnect solutions
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Trump says semiconductor tariffs will start at 25%, keep rising over the year
“When they come into the United States, and they have their plant or factory here, there is no tariff,” the President said
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European regulator approves Synopsys’ $35bn Ansys acquisition after companies agree to divest software assets
The UK’s CMA has indicated the agreement now satisfies its conditions
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GlobalFoundries fined for shipping wafers to sanctioned Chinese firm
Company received a “significant reduction” in the penalty due to its cooperation
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South Korean chip engineer detained in China under expanded espionage laws
Updated law now includes penalties for those accused of leaking ‘work secrets’
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Nvidia and Microsoft accused of patent theft and violating antitrust laws by DPU startup Xockets
Startup accuses company of infringing on patents related to its DPU offerings
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UK’s CMA opens potential antitrust investigation into Synopsys' $35bn Ansys acquisition
Considering whether the transaction could lessen competition in the UK
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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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Micron suffers double dose of disaster after fire and environmental concerns impact facilities in Taiwan and New York
No one was injured in the blaze
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UK regulator launches investigation into HPE’s $14bn Juniper Networks acquisition
Phase 1 inquiry will run until August 14
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Mimir IP sues Micron, alleges patent infringement over patents purchased from SK Hynix last month
Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Tesla also named in the lawsuit
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Microsoft sued by ParTec for alleged supercomputer patent infringement
ParTec seeking undisclosed amount of damages
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US government extends investigation into Applied Materials for alleged China sanction breach
Company confirmed it had received a subpoena in SEC filing
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Micron ordered to pay Netlist $445m for HPC memory-module patent infringement
Jury concluded chipmaker wilfully infringed the patents
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Nvidia: PUE is an ineffective efficiency metric for AI workloads and needs replacing
Argues that energy should be measured in kilowatt-hours instead
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Japan to expand export restrictions on semiconductor and quantum computing technology
Updated rules set to come into force in July
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Chinese institutions acquired Nvidia AI chips despite US export ban - report
Ten research facilities and universities have acquired the sanctioned chips through domestic resellers
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HPE files lawsuit against Inspur alleging patent infringement and deceptive business practices
Chinese server manufacturer accused of violating five HPE patents
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AWS told to pay $525m in damages after losing cloud storage patent infringement case
Storage and data management company Kove first filed lawsuit against AWS in 2018
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Dutch government to comply with US service ban request for Chinese ASML customers
US government asked allies to stop domestic chip companies maintaining equipment in China
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US asks allies to stop companies servicing chipmaking tools in China
Department of Commerce investigating alleged sanctions breach
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South Korea trebles maximum prison sentence for tech IP theft
The new regime with tougher penalties came into force this week
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China bans use of Intel and AMD chips in gov't PCs and servers
List of approved technologies contains only Chinese-made solutions
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US government still investigating alleged chip sanctions breach by SMIC
Probe relates to inclusion of 7nm chips in Huawei Mate 60 Pro phone
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Meta accuses former VP of taking employee and supplier data to Omniva, files lawsuit
Accused exec had been with the company for 12 years