On Dec. 9th, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would allow Nvidia’s H200 processors to be exported to China, subject to a 25% fee on all sales. The move has sent ripples through the American establishment, with many (including Senator Elizabeth Warren) charging that Trump is “selling out” national security. There is no…
With its new Pax Silica Declaration, Washington has picked its most trusted partners in the AI sector: An array of close U.S. allies, including Australia, the U.K., and Israel. Yet despite deepening trade relations between the U.S. and ASEAN nations like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, Singapore remains the agreement’s only Southeast Asian signatory. That decision…
For employees at Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, the financial incentives to retire are staggering, yet few are heading for the exits. According to Stephen Witt, the freelance journalist and author whose book on the most valuable company in the world, The Thinking Machine, just became the FT…
A future filled with robots that can reason is fast approaching—and it starts with your car, Qualcomm’s executive vice president says. The U.S. semiconductor giant best known for designing the mobile processors that power most of the world’s smartphones recently announced it would take on Nvidia and AMD in making AI chips. As Qualcomm expands…
New AI chips seem to hit the market at a quicker pace as tech companies scramble to gain supremacy in the global arms race for computational power. But that begs the question: What happens to all those older-generation chips? The AI stock boom has lost a lot of momentum in recent weeks due, in part,…